Animating Literary Traditions: The Story Of Creation According to Phong Tuong

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In his animation above (created for Professor Norrie Epstein’s Literary Traditions), Phong Tuong animates Creation as he envisions it. He explain  his animation this way:

Let there be light.

As Adam, the triangle, moves in to the frame, he discover a door leading to Eden, his way out of darkness. And so he goes through the door and meets Eve, the circle, and her friend Oedipus, the square.

With light comes darkness, so a new entity follows Adam from below the darkness, its name Truth (or Knowledge).

All three little shapes are playing along and having an innocent and fun time together until Truth comes along and consumes its first victim, Eve, just as she was the first to consume the apple.

Both Oedipus and Adam try to run away from Truth but they can’t run from it forever. Oedipus first succumbs to it. Then Truth comes to Adam, reveals the real world, and offers him a choice — refuse or accept it.

As in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Adam emerges from the cave called Eden and comes out to the real world. Adam reunites with his friends and they run along. Truth has done its job and departs as the screen fades to black.