Homepage: the anatomy of a great leaf
- Tobacco field and curing barn, Viñales, Cuba. Ryan Van Duzer on YouTube, CC BY 3.0.
- Fermentation room, Tabacalera de Garcia, La Romana. Mstyslav Chernov on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Our animated adaptation is shared under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.
- Leaf grading, Nicaragua. Cinema Ninja via Artlist.
- Rolling a Cuban cigar. kuhnmi on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
We cut, cropped, colour-graded and looped these clips. The fermentation and rolling photos were widened and animated with AI. The last step, lighting a cigar, is animated from our own photo.