A Translating Body
An animation to stand inside
I illustrated and animated a film about how the body perceives its surroundings, for a panoramic projection in Parque Explora’s Sala de la Mente in Medellín.
- Client
- Parque Explora · Medellín
- Setting
- Sala de la Mente
- Deliverables
- Storyboard and visual studies
- Illustrated sequences
- Animation for spatial projection
In the museum
Installation recording at Parque Explora. The full film below includes narration by the museum team and sound and music by Eme Isaza.



From frame to room
The film uses an 8:3 frame. Figures, gestures and movement extend across its width; the installation recording shows the composition projected around the room.
The panoramic frame
Inside the room
Plant sequences in the panoramic film and in the museum projection.
Image and projection
Full film
Study
Gesture, overlap and colour studies for the animated figures.

Animation
Animated sequence in the full panoramic frame.

Installation
Plant and animal sequence, recorded inside the Sala de la Mente.
Storyboard and visual studies
Studies of faces, waves and cellular forms for the sensory sequences.




The body
The senses
The natural world
Full film
Credits
- Illustration and animation
- Catalina Vásquez
- Sound design and music
- Eme Isaza
- Script and voice-over
- Parque Explora team

