To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.
Don HertzfeldtBoth the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.
Don HertzfeldtI think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.
Don HertzfeldtBut I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.
Don HertzfeldtI have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.
Don Hertzfeldt