The concept of my group's animation is the cycle of life.
Inspired by the great Mapplethorpe's surreal take on his own deterioration in his final stages of life, Metamorphosis will juxtapose the life of a butterfly with the aging process of a human. The goal is to show beauty and sadness in combination.
Our plan is to use charcoal and sand to incrementally display transpiration as a living creature is fading away... We also hope to use newspaper cutouts for the human face so we can more effectively manipulate and convey the process of aging.
The piece is broken into four parts:
The first stage will project the development of a cocoon into a butterfly.
The second and third stages will follow the growth and deterioration of a human into dust (sand).
And the final stage will reveal the grown butterfly perching on the dust and coyly floating away.
Here are examples for stylistic inspiration by Robert Mapplethorpe:
And, finally, here are our collective storyboards we created together as a group.
Stage 1 - James - cocoon to butterfly
Stage 2 - Maura - birth to adult
Stage 3 - Kyndall - Adult to deceased (dust)
Stage 4 - Dust to flight (butterfly path of action)
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