Thursday, 28 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Fantastic Voyage: Environment Speed Paints
I completely forgot to upload these... As my animation is set in an environment resembling that of space I decided to try and get a basic idea of what I want in terms of colour palette and lighting by looking at image references and experimenting with different brushes and effects in Photoshop to produce these speed paints
Fantastic Voyage: Animatic v1
I apologise for the late upload. This is not my final animatic sequence, I'm currently trying to put some sort of intro and outro together along with a short script for what is needed to be said via a voice over. I had some trouble identifying what exactly the "Captain" character is in relation to the bio-scientifical scenario as it looks completely different to the DNA. I have done some research and I think calling it a Plasmid would be accurate.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Monday, 11 March 2013
Fantastic Voyage: Thumbnails 21-32; Silhouette Experiments
I decided to experiment with silhouettes by using parts from my previous 'Visual Concept' Influence Map. I blacked out the shapes that I liked or thought were interesting on the metallic armour seen in the images so I could get science fiction look. I put them together and came up with some satisfying results.
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| The Influence Map showing where I got my silhouette shapes from. |
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| Silhouette shapes on their own. |
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| Final Silhouettes. The squiggly things from the shapes are supposed to resemble the flagella. |
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Fantastic Voyage: Thumbnails 1-12
These are my initial drawings to get an idea of what my mechanical Prokaryotic cells will look like.
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| Number 3 shows a comparison from number 2 which is a drawing of a normal cell to then change to number 3 which is mechanical - using flagella as rocket boosters as that is how they move. I was also keeping in mind the different shapes of Prokaryotic cells such as Spirilla in 7 and 8 and Cocci in 1 and 6. |
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| Once again exploring different ways to make the cells look more mechanic and have different mechanisms. I'm liking the look the cocci bacteria in number 12 at the moment. |
Fantastic Voyage: Influence Maps
For my animation I want the cells to be the complete opposite to what they actually are. They are organic organisms so I want to make them as less organic as possible, machine like, covered in patterned metal and having mechanisms to show how it works. Much like a minuscule spaceship so it will look very sci-fi.
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| This map is to help define the shape of my mechanical cells as well as thinking how I could have my own shapes by combining different shapes of bacteria together to create something completely unique. |
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| Looking at crafts and ships from Star Wars, Star Trek and other science fiction films and artwork. Some of these are really similar to the way I visualise my cells and the world around them. |
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| The way I want my mechanical cells to look is metallic, with layers of metal sheets to give them a real industrialised look much like Transformers, Halo, War of the Worlds and other science fiction movies. In terms of the world around I was thinking of having it look like it is actually in space (but obviously its not) so the blues and purples seemed like a good starting point to me. |
Fantastic Voyage: Cells Research
Through my research I have decided that I am focusing on Prokaryotic Cells which are bacteria. I looked at many videos to get a better understanding of the structure and cycles of Prokaryotic Cells.
Cells Research by AlexEdmonds
Cells Research by AlexEdmonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlhCWg5iOM - Embedding on this one has been disabled but videos like this have helped me with my understanding of cells.
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