Disembodied Vision – A Horrorwave Sketch

A wizard sought to see the hidden realm beyond ordinary sight. To achieve this, he performed a complex ritual in which he plucked out his own eye and placed it in a cauldron filled with mystical potions.

The ritual succeeded beyond his wildest expectations. His disembodied eye now exists in a parallel realm, where it witnesses strange mysteries. The wizard now perceives impossible colors that have no names and experiences abstract visions that defy human comprehension.

Sadly, the wizard's triumph has become his curse. He must now live with one eye seeing the normal world while the other endlessly flashes of alien colors and textures. He sees beautiful but meaningless visions that offer no hidden meaning or knowledge.

Only one remedy remains, the wizard has to physically enter the hidden realm to retrieve his eye. Once he crosses into that dimension with his whole body, he will have no way to return to his own world without finding the right potions and tinctures in that realm to complete the spell.

Now the wizard faces an impossible choice between his fractured existence and potential exile in a strange realm. Perhaps one day his eye will finally meet a guide in the other realm to help it back home.

Video was created in After Effects and the eye was sketched via pencil and micron markers. I took random photos of the process to combine them with the music. Later I scanned the finished drawing and colored about 300 frames in photoshop to bring in the color. Music was created in MCP with my Akai MPK Mini and various synths like tubesynth, ez drummer, sub factory and a few others.