Shot 9.1  The vortex, up

GANESHA. Seated, calm, palm raised, forming out of the paper rather than sitting on it. Ink coverage is 0.28 percent against 5 to 7 on a full frame, so he is barely there on purpose. THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF THE MOVE, not the end: he scales up out of nothing, through this, and is gone. If he arrives fully drawn there is nothing left to animate. Nothing else in the frame, no lamps, no lotus, no throne, so nothing competes and nothing explains him. Never lit specially, never cut to, never mentioned. SUPERSEDED. This phase is the vortex now, not Ganesha. Ganesha is not gone from the film: he is the dedication card at the very end, 14-8-DEDICATION-v2, which is a different thing and arrives unannounced.

REJECTED FOR ITS ASPECT RATIO ONLY. Square, 2048 x 2048, where the film is 16:9. The drawing itself was right and this frame became the reference v3 was built from, so only the framing changed. Kept because a rejected take is not rubbish. APPROVED BY BABA IN CHAT 3.9.2026. It had been superseded by v3, which was generated separately while he was approving this one. v3 is kept as a proposal; this is the frame he chose.

THE ACCEPTED TAKE. The cloud vortex he is drawn up through after his eyes close. Widescreen, 2752 x 1536, throat centred, zero coloured pixels. Third attempt: v1 had the drawing right in a square frame, v2 recomposed into a curling wave seen from the side, and v3 kept v1 as its reference so only the framing changed. Alternative take, kept. Baba approved v1.