The Struggle

Everyone has a mental struggle of some sort at some point in their lives. It can be difficult to pick yourself up, the feeling of a great weight burdening your very soul. We try to fight, pushing back against these feelings, pushing forward, lifting ourselves up day after day. For many the burden is too much and they collapse under the pressure, for some the pain becomes less and they can once again stand tall. This image shows the burden, but the interpretation can be seen as positive or negative. The figure is getting up or falling down. As with all of my work this was made using Maya and an experimental simulation technique in Bifrost for Maya. I played with camera angles for the longest time but in the end this just felt right and I like the overall shape and composition of the shot. I used Black and White for dram and grit. Image is 3840x1920