● HELA

This project began as a fight to prove ourselves, to show that we could reach higher than before. We wanted to step beyond pure spectacle and create a cinematic that was more story-driven, slower in pace, more beautiful, and more purposeful. In the end, it became one of the most loved projects our team has ever worked on.

- Turpal Saytiev

The amount of revisions we pushed through on this project was daunting. Each shot went through countless stages of iteration, and whenever we discovered something new late in the process, we went back and reworked all the earlier shots to include it. It became a never-ending cycle of 1% improvements.

Yet we were racing against the clock. With every pass we kept noticing more, wanting to refine, to push, to polish. We always wish for more time; but then again, every artist does on every project. That’s the passion: chasing perfect. The truth is, perfect never comes. It only gets better. And for artists, a project is never truly finished. It’s simply delivered.

This project began with some real concern from our collaborators and the client about whether we could deliver at the quality they expected. I was determined to prove them wrong, and I asked them to trust us. In the end, their words were simple:

“You were right.”

Looking back, I suspect they might have pushed us on purpose; and honestly, I’m glad they did.