Liquid Stills is a video series of 7-second looped animations born from a desire to create engaging, immediate visual experiences that deepen with time. Emerging during the pandemic, this work evolved from my need to move away from static images and explore dynamic systems. Drawing on my experience with rotoscoping and frame-by-frame animation, I began experimenting with turbulent displacement to mirror the unpredictable chaos of real movement. These animations capture energy—awkward, anxious, and sometimes joyful—through layered effects that offer a fresh approach to motion that's too complex for traditional animation. Inspired by Walter Murch's concept of the "average time between cuts" in film editing, Liquid Stills embraces the 7-second loop as a time-efficient process, allowing for rapid creation and raw, instinctive expression. This brevity breaks free from the need for perfection, embracing moments of transformation shaped by noise, ocean currents, and rigidity. Liquid Stills challenges the static, offering a new kind of visual experience that is as fluid and ever-evolving as the world around us.