Fantastic Voyage - The Making of The Journey to the Cell

The Making Of...Journey to the Nucleus

All Test Playblasts

The Terrain could have been a moving environment

...what the Mitochondria could have animated like 

Fantastic Voyage CG Pipeline

Wire Frame

Ambient Occlusion

Beauty

Fantastic Voyage - Journey to the Nucleus CD Art

Fantastic Voyage - Journey to the Nucleus Pre Viz

Here a Pre Visualization of my Final Animation, the Final peice is about ready to go... I'm just experimentating with the beginning and end of the animation, trying to decide which works better; live footage or drawn out frames, I like the idea of being in a 2D world for a second and getting transported into this somewhat lucid dream of the tired student, but at the same time having reality transitioning into a 3D environment would work well, at the end it'll be down to which ever looks better...

The Final Animation might have a change in music also, I cut down long cut outs of the animation which was vividly present in the Animatic, but the animation seems to be longer, I might have been listening to it for too long, but I feel it doesn't have the same effect the Animatic, when the music reach it's brink point nothing spectacular is happening..

Fantastic Voyage - Animation Progess

Texturing Terrain 

I settled with this texture, I'll be reiterating  on the colour and experimenting with what best fits the mood

 Environment setup

There are 4 planes my camera flies through in total in an attempt to suggest a bigger world  

Texturing Organelles 

With a little help I was able to animate the Lysosome accepting the unwanted cells using nurbs and selected isoparms

Golgi

The Mitochondria (power plant) is the blue object in the background

Nucleus

 I wanted to make the nucleus somewhat merge to the environment when the viewer is first introduced to it, similar to the concept I had in my animatic where it emerges the bottom of a hole; in the same way the viewer couldn't see the Nucleus (because it out of sight) the nucleus here is hiding plane sight until it moves and unravels itself

Illustrating the last separation to reveal the nucleus

There are 3 layers to my nucleus, the first one splits out in 4 parts, the second layer melt down revealing the core (Nucleolus)

The reveal is animated and seems to work. I'm in the final stages of texturing the nucleus I working towards a "lavar type" texture melting from the core.

This is another Previz test to see how well the camera would work with the music