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A return to black and white, with a few shades of gray (fifty?) ... and the fleeting passage of the blue and fuchsia pink.

Meteor: phenomenon, perceptible in the atmosphere or on the surface of the globe, which may consist of an aqueous, gaseous, electric or optical manifestation.

Here we again take the 3D-yellow ribbon that goes down and rotates at the end of the sequence "pencil, glass, light". It splits into two objects: the 3D- ribbon itself, which is now coloured in purple, and its projection on a plane, adorned with the yellow and red edges of the frame taken into account by the 3D-software to draw the ribbon.

The other motifs of the video are based on two pencil drawings and on a set of flat surfaces and lines, drawn and animated in 3D.

The name given to the video can be understood by observing that all the colors come back several times during the sequence, except the green which appears only punctually for one of the 3D-traits ... even though it is irather turquoise.

Here, metallic-looking 3D lines are rarer and replaced by translucent surfaces that could be made of tinted glass.

Moreover, there is no more lateral path accompanying the course of the lines, as in most of the previous videos; the moving forward is now regularly progressing in the direction of the screen's background, towards a light source that is never reached.

The video is in a 2D-format. But it is largely made from "metallic" lines drawn in a 3D-space. which is allowing the eye to wander within the structure of the drawing, whereas it somewhat remained outside in the previous videos.

The rest of the material consists in pencil or ink drawings on paper.

Once again, a sequence in three movements.

Prelude: five motifs recur and become entangled.

Interlude: initially, a real "cartoon" lasting a little more than a second, a succession of forty drawings representing a wave that is formed and then turns off; what follows is composed of the very same drawings that keep reappearing in different sizes, colors and patterns.

Final: a progression in what could be a series of landscapes, swept repeatedly by one kind of flow and ebb. The drawings of the final, as well as the wave of the interlude, have been sketched during a cruise in the Pacific. One can therefore think of the ocean...

Relying on a single pencil-drawn, black frame, the sequence offers a suite of variations by erasing or coloring some of the frame's components.

A long series of pencil-drawn lines occasionally interrupted by sharp hatchings or enriched by areas of flat colors.

first movement: fast and restless

second movement: slow and meditative

third movement: on three motifs

Here, the sequence is not the animation of a drawing made originally on paper, but a collage of photographs taken by the author during a cruise in the Baffin Bay.

Note that, though a few colored lines and transparencies have been added here and there, the original appearance of the sky, water and icebergs was not changed.