The task was to create a mystical background of a gloomy forest, where hands and faces could be seen among the trees. I drew a few sketches, but then I realized that the level of abstraction was ideal to take advantage of AI.

I went through 40 generations, settled on several options and tried image to image to check how the forest can change, turning into images of hands and faces

Eventually I found a picture to work with and made this sequence:

After that, I assembled the sequence of images into animation and completed the intermediate frames.

In addition, I had to draw scary portraits of people who were interrogated by the detective: