The opening of Pandora's Box

This blog was cooked up for the purpose of documenting every little step towards the end result of an animation. An animation that will be based on a myth that features a twist, and it will take most of its recipe from the Greek myth Pandora's Box. The basic story goes like this:

"In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted".

When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. With her, Pandora had a jar which she was not to open under any circumstance. Impelled by her natural curiosity, Pandora opened the box-jar, and all evil contained escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the lid, but the whole contents of the jar had escaped, except for one thing which lay at the bottom, which was Hope."

This is a great story to animate for several reasons... First of all you can do alot with it, its short and doesn't have a massive amount of backstory and therefore you can really twist it mix it up to make something new and interesting. Secondly it would be a great story to make as you can draw all sorts of wonderful things flying out of that magical box! It's just a huge fantasy that won't limit the creativity of the ideas.

Finally on this everlasting gobstopper of a post I will provide a link to the Myths and Legends website that have a more detailed and easy on the eye take on the myth itself. Click Here