Story Telling and Commission: Art of

Fantastic Voyage Art Of by Katie Lima

Story and Commission: Fantastic Voyage- Final Crit

Fantastic Voyage from Katie Lima on Vimeo.

Storytelling and Commission- Fantastic Voyage: Various Animations

A small compilation of some test renders, 3D animations and 2D animations I've done for the Fantastic Voyage project so far.

Some of the frames and timings for the animations need a bit of fine tuning but I'll get to that when everything is animated so that I'm not missing out on anything.

Storytelling and Commission- Fantastic Voyage: Rigging done and onto Skinning

I finished rigging my models and now it is time to skin the joint to the model itself. However I a bit confused about how to start off the skinning process in regard to combining the models first then going for the centre joint, like the pelvis joint, or to do things separate and then combining them together at the end.
Any feedback would be very useful :)

@Jordan Fantastic Voyage Art Of

Fantastic Voyage

Here are a few pages for my Art Of, I need to edit the dimension of a few images in there due to weird sizing issues when exporting from Photoshop. Im going to check out other fonts and figure out what I want on the other pages. Also the second page is a contents, that would go Bacteria, T-Cell, Antibody, Environment, then Screenshots of the final piece plus additional features. This is because I want each character to have a segment rather then going through all of them at the same time.

Storytelling and Commission: Fantastic Voyage- Rigging Process so far

Fig: Antibody Model and Rig

Fig 2: T-Cell Model and Rig

Fig 3: Bacteria Model and Rig

I have just finished with the rigging of the spine for the Bacteria and T-cell, overall I'm around half way done with modelling for those two characters, just the arms and neck movements need doing. With the Antibody, I am at a similar stage, however I didn't realise how complex a 4-legged animal is too model and it might take me longer then the other two. Hopefully by the end of this week at least I'd like to have all of the models done ready to animate for next week.

Storytelling and Commission: Fantastic Voyage: Orthographs

Fig 1: Antibody Orthograph

Fig 2: Bacteria Orthograph

Fig 3: T-Cell Orthograph

Story and Commission Fantastic Voyage: Storyboard Update

Fig 1: Frame 1- Frame 16

Fig 2: Frame 17- Frame 33

Fig 3: Frame 34- Frame 50

Fig 4: Frame 51- Frame 67

Fig 5: Frame 68- Frame 84

I've updated my storyboard a little to implement some more of the scientific aspect to the animation, adding more flips between the science form of the characters and the characters themselves so that the audience will be able to understand the connection between the two forms for each character. I also tried to achieve some more establishing shot for the "body is a city" metaphor that I am going for.

Story and Commission Fantastic Voyage: Additional Concepts and Sketches- Bacteria and T-cell

Fig 1: Bacteria Concept

Fig 2: T-Cell Concept

Fig 3: Additional Sketches demonstrating the size difference between the two

I'm trying to finalise my designs for my characters so that I can start getting to the modelling phase for them. I experimented with the size difference, the T-Cell being larger and more stockier then the shorter and leaner Bacteria. I was also having the idea for the Bacteria to have a backpack that resembles it's "scientific form".

Story and Commission: Fantastic Voyage- Antibody Dog Concept

Fig 1: Concepts of Antibody as a Doberman or German Shepherd breed of dogs

From my feedback of my Antibody dogs looking a bit too deer like I went back to look at references of dogs used as police dogs, such as the Doberman Pinscher and the German Shepherd. I still wanted the design to have a "Y" shape, similar to how antibodies are drawn in scientific diagrams.

Storytelling and Commission: Fantastic Voyage Post-Pitch

Priorities following the Pitch:

1. Figure out how to implement a way to make the jump between the science form and the character form for my characters and neaten up the designs some more, such as with the dog design and think about looping the scene but having the first and last frames to be the same/ similar.

2. Work on the Narration and how to put across the hard-boiled detective from the 1940s narrative in a way for my target audience to understand.

3. Use Soundscape to portray the city as a lively place by using environmental sounds along with the Jazz a compliment to the action in the animation.

Overall I feel as though the feedback I received at the pitch was very positive and constructive. It's nice to know that my concept ideas are good and that the only things I really need to do is to go in a tweak a few parts of my storyline so that the science elements aren't jarring compared to the characters.

Storytelling and Commission: Fantastic Voyage Pitch Presentation

Fantast Voyage Pitch

Animatic.

Fantastic Voyage: Animatic WIP

At this point in time I am just inserting the frames for the animatic, animating all of this in photoshop using the layering method. Some of the timing is a bit off but I will try and sort out the pacing when all of the frames are inserted and the subtitles that will introduce the characters (Bacteria, Lymphocyte B and T, as well as the Antibodies) will be done in either Premiere or in another layer as so to not interfere with the frames already there.

Fantastic Voyage: Storyboard Draft

Fig 1: Frames 1-16

Fig 2: Frame 17- 32

Fig 3: Frame 33- 48

Fig 4: 49- 64

This is an Draft Storyboard that I will continue to work upon, adding scenes, fleshing out scenes.
Feedback would be very welcome.

OGR: Target Market Research

Results From Survey

@Phil The Fantastic Voyage OGR 1

Ogr Fantastic Voyage

Target Market Research: http://katie-lima.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ogr-target-market-research.html

Fantastic Voyage: Thumbnails for Potential Film Idea

An Early Piece of Concept of the cells

Fig 1: Designs for the Bacteria and B Lymphocytes

Fig 2: Designs for the Antibodies

Fig 3: Some more Bacteria Thumbnails

Fig 4: Size Differences between the Antibodies, B cell and Bacteria

Fig 5: T Lymphocyte concept and a Size Comparison with the other cells

These are some thumbnails based on one of my idea for the "Bacteria vs The Immune System" prompt. The Idea was the bacteria being a criminal and The Immune System acting as a police force. The plan is that each character will have its scientific form and a humanoid form as well, as being targeted to teenagers doing their GCSE I think its a good idea to have them know what the cells look like while still having fun with the character design of them.

Fantastic Voyage: Research and Ideas so Far