Here's my Creative Project. It might take a bit to load.

When I began working on this (this morning of December 14th), I set out to create a digital sculpture (using Blender, a 3D modeling software I a comfortable and familiar with) of one of the Myrmidons loyal to Achilles in a transitional state - between ant and man. In my personal opinion, I'm extremely happy with how this came out. My interpretation of the Myrmidons places them at the tail end of their transformation - where the chitinous exoskeleton that once acted as the ant's skin is stretched and warped to accomodate the human physiology developing within. For the helmet, I was immediately struck with the idea of a "hoplite" like helmet where the 'wings' that protected the face could be adapted into an ant's slack mandibles. Following this idea, I then transformed the helmet into the not-fully cast-off exoskeleton of an ant. Using a photo of an ant's head taken with microscopy as reference, I added the rest of the ant's features (like the eyes, and antennal fossa located on the upper portion of the helmet.) For the lower portion of the bust, I wanted to evoke the idea of fusing plates - that the ant's exoskeleton was uniting into a curiass. With this work, I wanted to show a grotesque side of Ovid's transformations that he does not spend much time on within the Metamorphoses. - the liminal states between origin and result.