Fantastic Voyage - Human Body Police Department Deluxe Art Of

Human Body Police Department Deluxe Art Of by Ian Garling

Fantastic Voyage - Police cell pipeline

Fantastic Voyage - Virus Cells digital pipeline

Fantastic Voyage - Character Development - Rigging

Today I added rigs to all three of my police cell characters. For two of them I also had to make eye constraints for eye movement. My next step will be to work on the characters textures and once that is finished I will be ready to animate them.

Fantastic Voyage - Main characters with UV texture

The next step I will take in the modelling process with my characters is to rig them next. Once I have the characters rigged that is when I will focus on one of the more important aspects for these characters which is the texturing process. The reason why this is important for me is I am using that to give the characters clothes and mouths. This will make them look on the more cartoonist style which is what I am aiming for. It will also make the lip syncing process slightly easier being able to draw 2d cut out of mouths with certain movements and then just switching them frame by frame to make the lip sync possible.

Fantastic Voyage - Character Development

I have started to model my characters for my final animation. To do this I created one half of the character and then mirrored it. This worked well for symmetrical modeling but unfortunately it is also mirroring the UV map, something which I need to try and solve. Also where I have made the arms extruding from the main body this has caused the texture to be stretched a long the arms which I need to try and find a solution for. The texturing for this model is very important as I am keeping the actual model itself simple then using textures for the mouth and clothes which will hopefully give the animation a more cartoony feel which is what I am aiming for.

Fantastic Voyage - Human Body Police Department Pre Viz - No Sound

Fantastic Voyage - Pre Viz Environments

These are the environments for my first two scenes in pre viz. The first is the inside of a mouth where the virus will enter. The second is of the Human Body Plasma Department headquarters located in the bone marrow.

Fantastic Voyage - Virus Characters for Pre Viz

Fantastic Voyage - Design Development

Here is concept art for the initial environment that the story will start off in.

After the pitch and being told to have a gun that fits into the story a bit more I have been trying to play around with different designs, basing them more off of a type of launcher or a nerf gun, to be less treating to the target audience and also to fit in with the world that I am creating

Here I am playing around with the virus characters. Giving them eye masks and wooly hats to represent robbers to fit in with the story of cops and robbers. Also to add some versitility to the characters I have one which is bigger and the main virus character, along with his slightly smaller sidekick. 

Fantastic Voyage - Pitch Presenation

Fantastic Voyage Pitch Presentation

Fantastic Voyage - Human Body Plasma Department - Animatic with sound

Fantastic Voyage - Complete Storyboard

Fantastic Voyage: Storyboard frames 1 - 24

Fantastic Voyage - First Script

How the Body Fights Bacteria Script

Fantastic Voyage: OGR #1

Fantastic Voyage OGR 1

Fantastic Voyage: Art Design influence map

Fantastic Voyage: Initial Character ideas

Just some very rough character designs, trying to play around with different shapes and designs.

Fantastic Voyage: Initial idea

For my initial idea for this project, having my target audience in mind of a young child audience. I thought of using the plasma cells within the body as a police department, HBPD (Human Body Plasma Department) These cells with fight off bacteria trying to enter the body. They will do this by having the antibodies as their ammunition which they will fire at the bacteria. They will need to find the right ' ammunition' to fit the shape of the bacteria (as antibodies work). Once they capture the bacteria they will send in the White blood cells to destroy the bacteria.

Fantastic Voyage: Research

How the Body Fights Bacteria 

Your body uses white blood cells to fight off the bacteria and viruses that invade your body and make you sick. In the gif below you can see a white blood cell called a neutrophil chase down a Staphylococcus aureus bacterium. The circular cells that the white blood cell is moving through are red blood cells.

Your body is constantly covered (inside and out) by bacteria. Some are good for you, some are harmless and some can make you sick. Staphylococcus aureus is frequently found on our skin and respiratory tract. It doesn't always cause disease, but can infect the skin or lungs. There are more bacteria in and on your body than there are people on the Earth. Think on that one for a few minutes.

The white blood cell is attracted to the bacteria because proteins called antibodies have marked the bacteria for destruction. These antibodies are specific for disease-causing bacteria and viruses. When the white blood cell catches the bacteria it goes about "eating" it in a process called phagocytosis.

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-your-body-fights-off-bacteria-2013-2?IR=T