"Sociedad" is part of a group of animations created for the "Gran Museo del Mundo Maya" in Yucatán, Mexico. The animations serve as support to the narration of different stories and are projected in large format inside of the museum.
The art was a complex job because it had to follow very specific rules of style, for this reason we worked with historians to be faithful to the aesthetics of the Maya codex.
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. Advances such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them. Maya influence can be detected in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and western El Salvador to as far away as central Mexico, more than 1,000 km (620 mi) from the central Maya area. The many outside influences found in Maya art and architecture are thought to have resulted from trade and cultural exchange rather than direct external conquest.
...and here is the final animation.
