CARLOS AMORALES::::

Reminiscent of a medieval French tale, this animation portrays a pack of wolves emigrating from a forest into a city, thereby substituting, as they invade the streets, its human population.  The piece was made by combining 3D animation tools with flat, two-dimensional drawings of silhouettes, in a form that looks like a theater of shadows unfolding in a virtual environment.  The music, an orchestral slow-tempo, heavy metal sound, adds to the tension of the story suggested by the drawings, and thus becomes a dark epic tale.  Manimal is about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality.  It is about how, when the moon has disappeared, the werewolf returns to ‘human normalcy,’ though always remaining a ‘stranger’.