HARD TRUTHS
假象生花
3D Animation
Individual Project
2025
这一矛盾也是我想在项目中探讨的重点：我们往往能够意识到自我欺骗可能带来负面影响，却依然会一次次陷入其中。它并不总是以明显的“谎言”出现，更多时候，它会以自我安慰、合理化甚至理想化的形式存在。正因为这些幻象往往具有吸引力，人们才更容易主动接受它们，并逐渐忽视与自己期待不一致的事实。
在这个项目中，我通过 3D 动画将这一心理过程进行视觉化呈现。我希望把原本抽象、难以被直接观察的心理变化，转化为可以被观看和感知的空间与叙事。在视觉叙事上，我通过美丽、诱惑和逐渐失衡的场景变化，表现自我欺骗从“舒适”走向“失控”的过程。最初的幻象可能令人感到安全、满足甚至愉悦，但随着人们不断沉浸其中，这些看似温柔的假象逐渐转变为限制与束缚。最终，不再只是主动选择相信谎言，而是被困在由自身认知所构成的循环之中，难以重新面对真实。
This contradiction is at the centre of my project. Even when we understand that self-deception can have negative consequences, we still tend to fall into it again and again. It does not always appear as an obvious “lie.” More often, it takes the form of self-comfort, rationalization, or idealization. Because these illusions can be attractive and reassuring, we are more likely to accept them and gradually ignore facts that do not match what we want to believe.
In this project, I use 3D animation to visualize this psychological process. I wanted to transform an abstract and invisible mental experience into a spatial and narrative form that can be seen and felt. Through visual storytelling, I use scenes that shift from beauty and temptation towards imbalance and instability to show how self-deception can move from “comfort” to “loss of control.” At first, these illusions may create a sense of safety, satisfaction, or even pleasure. However, as people become increasingly immersed in them, these seemingly gentle illusions gradually turn into restrictions and constraints. Eventually, the person is no longer simply choosing to believe a lie, but becomes trapped in a cycle shaped by their own distorted perceptions, making it increasingly difficult to return to reality.
然而，当观众仔细观察时，会发现其中的植物并不自然，而是由不同形态拼接而成的奇异混合体。这种不自然的细节暗示着，眼前的美好其实建立在虚构与失真的基础之上。谎言的本质并不一定是邪恶，而更像是一种诱惑。真正让它变得危险的，并不是它有多么可怕，而是它往往以美丽、舒适甚至令人向往的形式出现。
When people first begin to lie to themselves, they are often drawn to the comfort and beauty that those lies can create. In this scene, I constructed a beautiful Eden—an idealized spiritual utopia. Everything appears enchanting and peaceful, like a sanctuary that people deeply long for.
However, on closer inspection, the plants are not natural. They are strange hybrids, suggesting that this beauty is artificial and unstable. The essence of a lie is not necessarily evil, but temptation. What makes it truly dangerous is not how frightening it appears, but how beautiful and comforting it can seem.
场景中央，一座旋转木马缓缓围绕着一个被水晶包裹的人体旋转，象征着人不断追逐幻象、并陷入其中的循环状态。散落在空间中的各种“珍宝”则代表了促使人产生自我欺骗的不同驱动力，包括权力、逃避、欲望、对完美自我的追求，甚至是对“意义”本身的执念。
When people become immersed in the illusory beauty created by self-deception, they can gradually fall into a state of moral decline. In this scene, I designed a space that symbolizes “sweet surrender.”
At the centre of the scene, a carousel slowly rotates around a human figure encased in crystal, representing the endless cycle of chasing illusions. Scattered throughout the space are various treasures, which symbolize the different forces that drive self-deception: power, escapism, desire, the pursuit of a perfect self, and even an obsession with “meaning.”
在场景的两侧，他们真实的想法被锁在透明的笼子里。这些透明的牢笼象征着人内心深处残存的真实自我——它们依然存在，却始终无法突破由层层谎言所筑成的高墙。
People often continue to build new lies to cover old ones in order to maintain the illusion of stability. In this scene, I designed a shattered human head surrounded by countless skeletons struggling to crawl toward it. This image symbolizes how people would rather remain trapped in comforting illusions than confront painful truths.
On both sides of the scene, their true thoughts are locked inside transparent cages. These cages represent the last remnants of their authentic selves—still present, but unable to break through the walls constructed by layers of lies.
HARD TRUTHS
假象生花
3D Animation
Individual Project
2025