Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa's Nightmare

Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa's Nightmare is the Title for my first short-animation film, made for the degree (Diploma) study at the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy in 2004. It is a fictional story, somewhat a premise to Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis novel.

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Hungarian/magyarul:
Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa rémálma c. animációs filmet 2004-ben készítettem diplomamunkaként a Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetemen. Az animációs film története egy fiktív előzménye Franz Kafka: Az átváltozás c. novellának.

Slovenian/Slovenski:
Animirani film z fiktivno zgodbo - Metamorphosis: Nočna mora Gregor Samse - je moje diplomsko delo narejeno na Madžarski akademiji likovne umetnosti v Budimpešti. Navdih sem dobil iz novele Preobrazba, pisatelja Franza Kafke.

Portugal:
Metamorphosis: 'O Pesadelo de Gregor Samsa' é o título do meu primeiro curta-metragem de animação, feito para a graduação (diploma) na Academina Húngara de Belas-Artes em 2004. É uma história de ficção, partindo-se da premissa da novela 'Metamorfose' de Franz Kafka. (Thanks Luís Felipe aka. luisleigh for the Translation)

Deutsch/German:
Metamorphosis - Gregor Samsas Alptraum ist mein erster animierter Film, den ich als Teil meiner Diplomarbeit an der Ungarischen Kunstakademie gemacht habe. Ich bekam meine Inspiration aus Kafkas Werk. Dieser animierte Film zeigt Ihnen nicht die Geschichte der Verwandlung, sondern eine fiktive Vorgeschichte. (special thanks to afvoerputje for correction of the german text)

Dutch (Holland):
Gregor Samsa's Nachtmerrie is mijn eerste geanimeerde film, die ik als onderdeel van mijn afstudeeropdracht aan de Hongaarse kunstacademie gemaakt heb. Mijn inspiratie heb ik uit Kafka's werk gehaald. Deze tekenfilm laat niet het verhaal van de metamorfose zelf zien, maar is een fiktieve voorgeschiedenis. (special thanks to afvoerputje for translation)

UPDATES:
22. november 2008 - i added english subtitles (just turn the option on for showing the captions). Hope you like it!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• metamorphosis
• kafka
• franz
• peter
• orban
• orbán
• péter
• animation
• 2D
• rajzfilm
• risanka
• diploma
• degree
• 2004

[Hammandy]

Great job. What is the technic to do this? How did you did it?

[opeter1]

Hello, the images and backgrounds were hand-drawn (pencil & aquarell/watercolor), for coloring i used Adobe Photoshop 5.0, for animation (pivot-camera moving) i used Toon Boom Studio 1.0 and the composition was made in Adobe Premiere 5.1.

[placika]

Ez most ugye nem komoly? Milyen szakon készült ez diplomára? Lehetett volna kafkásabb, ez így 80as évek horrorfilmje. Klisék mindenhol. Animációnak meg átmosott fotók... De legalább jó hosszú, ami gondolom segített diplomavédésen.

[opeter1]

De, ez halál komoly. Tervezőgrafika szak.

Kafka sztorijából csak elemeket merítettem. Nem is az volt a cél, hogy Kafkát illusztráljam. Inkább egy benyomás és pillanatnyi hangulat illusztrálása ez az animáció. Nem több. De nem is kevesebb. Fotók? A felhőkön kívül más fotó nem található ebben a filmben.

Klissék? Még szép hogy... a mai filmek 90% klissékre épül. Az emberek könnyebben elfogdják azt, amit már láttak, amit ismernek. A lényeg, hogy újabb ruhába/köntösbe öltöztetjük a megszokottat.

[sleeplaughing]

"this is bad. my boy didnt even turn into a bug. it was all in his head."

The metaphor utilized by Kafka in the story is pretty much just that.

The idea of the "bug" is used, imo, to portray simple human alienation and isolation. It carries with it the idea of being a monster among your friends and family.

I like looking at the insect as a symbolic device in order to get across a type of alienation that would otherwise be difficult to write about.

[KrutoyPostowoy]

I liked it pretty much with 2 exceptions.

The birds in the beginning are shown for so long - ithough they were the main charecters :D

Second is his tear in the end. It makes the whole thing too simple. Its like point at him "look he is so sad now".

[LucasIsLove]

Great

[DustWarden]

I thought it was cool - something for everyone who read this in high school and thought it started right AFTER the best part of the story! Striking & effective

[LunayyAshlyaa220]

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[HuMoDz]

0:22 the O looks like being from Portal (that game)

[hagonyourface]

This is just generally lacking in almost all of the main themes and points of Kafka's book. Did you even read it?

[fascinoma]

You made the human Gregor look vaguely like Kafka himself - the black hair, black eyes, thin face. I don't know if it was intentional, but it is so brilliant. He was so much "author avatar" in his work that I always imagine him as his main characters.

[sasfluuu]

brilliant!

[fashistt]

fuck

[adrianvino]

weak.

[eragonlover1]

That's beautifully executed. Utterly terrifying. Gorgeous. I love it.