Infiltration

This is the second iteration of this, I have dialled back a few things, the animation on the droplet needs a little more refinement and I may put a little push on the cam.

Working in post should make these changes fairly simple.

Red or Blue?

I was originally going for the top one. but thought I would have an experiment, now  I'm in a quandary, any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Environment Teaser

Oh the joy of instances. Several thousand Cilia waving about at the back of the throat.

Infection by the Flu Virus

Infection by Flu Virus

The link to the soundtrack does not work, follow me instead.

Flu Virus - Basic Model

Mark 1 Flu Virus: Already there are things I know I wish to change on this model but this will be fine for pre-vis work.

Heavy Industry - Cell Organelles

Having completed modeling the organelles for the cell, I thought I had better run off some renders, the textures are place holders at the moment hence the sci-tech look.

Above are various stages of the construction of the nucleus.

 The Cell as a whole. You can clearly see the nucleus in situ.

 Close up of the nucleus, below it are ribosomes, to the top left is the centriole.

 Here we see two mitochondria floating past the golgi body (top left), nucleus and centrioles.

Looking down the shaft of the cilia into the cell proper, we can see the organelles responsible for moving the cilia.

nucleus concept from SIMON HOLLAND on Vimeo.

A very short clip of the nucleus in action.

Flu Virus - Storyboard Act1

Storyboard Act1

Flu Virus - Speculative Concept - Mucus in the Air - External

Flu Virus - Environmental Concept- Speculative Painting- 01

I consider the previous images rather staid and generic, so I thought I would have a play and be a little more speculative with the environments. I find this image much more satisfying.

Flu-Virus Concept Colour Test

A slight detour from the graphic style I have been working on, I also used this as an excuse to try a water-colour style with a little Photoshop post production work.

Flu-Virus Concepts 2.03-2.04 plus first draft of plot.

Below is my first draft plot, comments and suggestions welcomed. At the moment the amount of scientific information is probably a little in depth for A-Level study, this will be pared back at the actual script writing stage. Im sure the good Dr Klappa will point out any glaring biological inaccuracies.

flu virus infection

Flu-Virus Concepts 2.01-2.02

I am still undecided whether I will be going in a pure hard-edged graphic style or something rather more grungier and real. The whole aspect of viruses not actually meeting the criteria of living organisms brings to mind little semi biological machines (nanobots) and this contrast between a living cell and the non-living virus is something that I would be seeking to emphasis.

Below is an initial colour timeline to give a rough indication of dominant colour palettes throughout the animation.

Next job is to get the basic plot summary finished and uploaded to Scribd

As an aside Phil, I don't suppose you would like to edit the layout slightly to give a bit more width in the posts. That way images and video won't creep outside the borders.

@ Simon/Hazard Iconography

Hey Simon - as suggested in my earlier comment; there's something about your increasingly bold, iconographic approach to your flu virus design that recalls hazard signs and their associations...

Flu-Virus Concepts 1.04

Flu-Virus Concepts 1.01

In my initial research into the flu virus I realised that a lot of pictorial representations of the virus were rather generic. Most were much like the image below, which is one of the better ones.

As you can appreciate I feel that a bit more artistic license needs to be taken with the design of the virus. Most flu viruses are spherical in nature with nodules etc. extending from the membrane. So with the criteria of spikey sphere in mind I spent an hour or so laying down some basic forms.

I will be researching the functionality of the virus, what all the components do and how they perform their tasks. Alongside this I will be creating more concepts as above.

A quick question for Dr Klappa:

I have been looking at the sort of content that is required for A-Level students, surprisingly the only virus that is covered in the resource material I could find on-line is HIV, is it appropriate to use the HIV resources as a guideline for the level of detail that a student would require?

Many thanks