Sonder is the idea that every person is living a life as vividly as our own. Everyone, on any given day, is experiencing something unique. Someone might be going through the worst part of their life, while another is experiencing the best, and strangers on the street will be oblivious. I have always been fascinated by this concept — the idea that everyone is the protagonist of their own life, and I might only ever have a glimpse of it.  

 

My 3D animated project explores this concept, specifically focusing on parent-child relationships. From the point of view of a young cashier at a supermarket, the audience gets to interpret different relationships and scenarios. Every character is faceless, leaving only the customer’s items and mannerisms to clue the audience and cashier into their life. A purposefully vague fight and ending will leave the audience to interpret the cashier’s life as they have for each customer in the animation, as well as every person they might have met or passed by in real life.