Part of our challenge in creating this film is staying as true as we can to each of the participants ideas of their imaginary worlds and the creatures or friends who inhabit them. In the case of 9-year Doreanna, she likes to write but she says that she doesn’t want to draw.* So we hired an artist, Stellaris, to help us bring one of the characters from Doreanna’s imaginary world Verasigh, to life—Vera. Doreanna has this to say about Vera: She’s not human, She’s a spirit type k

Maxine has “billions of imaginary friends,” in her imaginary world. With her incredible drawing skills, she sketched a few of them out for this film. Above is her drawing of Milou. Milou is an imaginary friend replica of Maxine’s husky, who later passed away.Below are some samples of her original drawings and the digital sketch right next to it. We traced over her drawings in Adobe Illustrator, working to be as true to her style as we could. First, on the left are Maxine’s or

Scwigee is a dragon who is part turtle and part horse. He also happens to be 5-year old Max’s imaginary friend. Max first made this drawing of Scwigee when he was really young (even younger than 5): Then, he explained that Scwigee doesn’t really look like that. First, he’s orange. Second, he doesn’t have two heads. He drew two heads because at the time he really “liked electricity.” Below, Max drew a new head to explain how Scwigee’s head should really look: We sent those two