Bengaluru-based artist Vinayak Varma @eyefry brought environmental lawyer and poet Devaki Panini’s poem Animal Origami to life with an elegant animation video. You can watch it here: darknlight.com/animal-origami/ 
“Strictly speaking, I wouldn't call what I've done here an animation. I approached it as a sequence of illustrations, almost as if it were a series of panels in a wordless comic. This made the process more approachable, mentally,” says Vinayak.
In recent years, Vinayak says he has come to rely less and less on roughs. “I now write a brief description of the illustration, do one very, very rough thumbnail of the overall composition, and then launch directly into the final artwork."
@eyefry says: "I find doing lots of sketches can often muddy and confuse the initial vision of an illustration, so I try to limit them so I can retain some clarity.”
On getting into the mood to draw: "By zoning out and jumping into various YouTube rabbit-holes for way too long until it's the very last minute and everyone is angry with me and everything is unbearably stressful. It's not the ideal method, but it somehow gets the job done!”
You can watch Animal Origami, an illustrated poem here: darknlight.com/animal-origami/
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