These images are stills from the computer animation "after birth" created by Vassilios Hurmusiadis (1992-1993).

"after birth" is an animation exercise on life and evolution of life, juxtaposing myth, reality and dream. The taboo myth of the child bearer stork is interrupted by a fictitious underwater creature evolution chain. The chain leads to a dream of underwater swimming whereby a homo-acquarious emerges from the waves onto the land. This is the top of the chain, the quintessence of evolution on this planet. The whale's presence is that of a mother-nature, calm, wise, and powerful. But then again she is rendered powerless by her own favourite child. Man turns against his own nature and the outcome is a disturbed evolution path towards a mutation of a human foetus.

"after birth" was screened at

• Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida City, Japan 1993,
• Image du Futur - International Computer Animation Competition, Montreal, Canada 1993,
• Montage - International Festival of the Image, Rochester NY 1993,
• European Students Computer Graphics Festival, Montreuill, France 1993,
• Bit.Movie, Riccione, Italy 1993,
• Jazz.Bit, Pori, Finland 1994 (won award),
• Pixel Art EXPO, Rome, Italy 1994 (won award),
• SIGGRAPH screening room, Chicago IL 1992,
• EUROGRAPHICS, Cambridge UK 1992 (won award),
• London Film Festival, UK 1992.