First Submarine Attempt

This is my first attempt at creating one of my subs. I think I may need slightly more detail. Maybe add a few rivets or a periscope or something. Im also going to try and UV map the hull to add some decals on it and create a more definative mouth. I also need to find out how to make the iris to move around the white "eyeball". At the moment I have got a look at constraint on the grey iris so that turns but unless its really close in you cant tell where the eyes are looking.

Dead Island

Ive recently seen a trailer for a new game called Dead Island. Its a very cinematic release and I love the way its been produced.



It has got me thinking about the style of my final animation. I like the slow motion narrative and the fact that the video relys quite heavily on the music. As there is alot of narrative and not much dialogue in the Fantastic Voyage clip, I have come up with the idea of making most, if not all, of the animation a slow motion look through the blood vessel. I think it would suit the style of the script. I am still trying to decide wether to include none, all or some of the dialogue.

A few designs

These are some inital designs I have made for my characters. I am in the process of creating the sub at the bottom of the last page. I think it is a good design and I have thought about the development of the character. The others I am going to develop a bit more before I move onto creating them.

Fantastic Voyage!

For the final major project of the year we have been given a choice of 3 scripts that we must use as a basis to create a 3 minute long animation. It is following on from the bots and bananas project that we did last term.

The options for scripts were:
- The Dojo scene from The Matrix
- The scene where the sub enters the body in Fantastic Voyage
- The Lab scene in the Frankenstein book

As you can probably tell from my title I have chosen the sub scene from Fantastic voyage. I liked the idea of being able to create some realism in the animation with the cells and blood vessels but also have some fantasy in it with the submarines. I have based my ideas on the movie Cars. I like the idea of having the submarines as the characters rather than have the characters as people in a submarine. I think it will help me as I will be designing and making non-human like characters so I can get a feel for creating different types of characters.

I have designed a few of the submarine characters and a few initial ideas for the enviroment which I will be posting soon.