Metamorphosis from Quintin Gonzalez on Vimeo.
Metamorphosis
2008
Metamorphosis is an experimental 3D short animation about the experience of an individual transformation as applied to social consciousness. The concept of metamorphosis directly addresses the idea of individual transformation brought on by societal and political realities of cultural assimilation. The changing form references a more symbolic manifestation of that reality when combined with the language of motion and sound. The experience of society's survival becomes a heightened expression that is achieved through the arrangement of reverberation and movement.
I find this piece to be representitive of a human's range of emotions and the slow drudge of their transitions into each other. The disturbing and sinister audio relays negativity making watching this an uncomfortable experience, yet at the same time I can't help but remain transfixed. I imagine that the animator created a ghosting effect by drawing different levels of ghosting in each frame. Animation allowed the maker to customise the colours and patterns of each individual ghost level, which can't be done simply with an applied default effect in a post production programme. This film also proves to me how animation is big on deceiving the audience, as in before I fully analysed this piece, I didn't think that this animation was a good example of effort as the effecting of the images look pre-programmed and click-drop applied. Now I know that every simple looking effect has been pain-stakingly applied, being drawn in frame by frame. That is the main goal in every animator's mind, I imagine; make it look like it was a simple process, so the audience won't be pre-occupied with wondering how long it must have taken to make. This can taint the audience's viewing experience.
