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Ever since mankind invented gods, there has been good and evil, Heaven and Hell. A glorious place, and a terrifying one; to enjoy either for the good behavior or be punished for the evil. With different religions there are different implications. But one thing these religions have in common is the fact of the “life after life”. We can find books like the Christian Bible and the Muslin Quran, where they talk about place of joy to live the eternity.  

Circa 1308–21, Italian author Dante Alighieri wrote about his experiences walking through the path of Hell, the Purgatory and Heaven. In each experience, he is guided by Greek poet Virgilio, and he is explained what happens in afterlife. My idea is based on representing all stages of his path and creating an image of what Dante might have seen in this walk.  

In Christian theology, Hell is the place where by God's judgment sinners go to pay for their unrepentant actions after dead. There, they spend the eternity in suffering. Same idea of concept is shared by Islam in Jahannam, refers to an afterlife place of punishment for evildoers. Hell, Sheol (in the Hebrew bible), “Gehenna” (in the new testament).

This is the first approach to the whole project. Dante’s Divine Comedy is composed of three books: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. But even before Dante starts talking about these three stages, we see his walk in the woods and Limbo. I focused on these two stages as they are foreground before the full experience. In this stage, the reader (in the original narration form) starts to get the new set of rules of the upcoming adventure. As I talked to my teacher, this first experiment was just a first approach of an even bigger project which will be filled with different sounds and images to play with the viewer’s emotions.  

My interpretation was based in the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix. But I changed it a bit. As souls here are in eternal destress and wonder. That is why when I created the characters, I didn’t give them any distinction to one another. Not even material for skin. They all look the same, as in the Christian theology, these souls are ignored by their God.  

'''Future of the project'''

My idea is to connect the scenes of the three main stages of the project (hell, purgatory and heaven) with a gaze controller. I had tried to create the connection between the two scenes I already created, but on Wednesday 20th March my computer had a window update and suddenly the scenes folder was deleted from my files. I must admit I was way too confident on the computer and I didn’t have a backup file. So, I had to recreate the scenes from scratch in these two previous weeks. For this deadline, I planned to have sounds surrounding the scenes and, as said, the two scenes connected with the Gaze controller. I didn’t have enough time to recreate this connection, as I was working full time, and I had limited time to work on this. I hope to keep working on this project and actually get the results I have in my mind.