Comment by hnlmorg

If I understand your dates correctly, Aug 2001 to Oct 2001, that’s only 3 months. Which is far short of the time you’d expect an artist to need to start a movie project entire from scratch if it weren’t already part of the concept of the album.

Those dates could more easily be explained as delays in the animation process.

I’m feeling unwell though, so apologies in advance if I have completely misread and misunderstood your post.