Unit 3 Fantastic Voyage: Making of Goopher in the Structure of a Eukaryotic Cell

Go Opher by lucyyelding

Unit 3: Fantastic Voyage: Scene development

Trying thicker lines for my scene was suggested, and I really like the affect. Also this version is rendered with mental ray settings.

Here is the thinner lined version for comparison..

Sadly, when using the outline in mental ray, the toonlines have to be made into polygons, which don't animate very well. To keep the lines, I'll have to render scenes twice, once with the mentalray setting of all the scene/character, then again with just the toonline in maya software. Sigh!

The mitochondria look a lot better in mental ray render settings.. (a still from the short. Low quality jpeg as my computer doesn't like me saving over files while rendering. =( ) Here is one without the black line (has to be added later)

Fantastic Voyage: Thumbnails

Here are my rough ideas of the environment so far. I'm finding it hard to draw the environments without being at least 80% sure of the story, but drawing out the environment actually helped the story development. Sigh..

Here we can see the mitochondria (top left), nucleus wall & pores, the RER and SER. I need to add some sort of pathway for the character to make it from the start to the goal (inside the nuclear walls)

Ribosomes and lysosymes. The lysosymes have  scanners search out for chemicals etc. (And the guy inside!)
I want to figure out what sort of matte paintings I can have in the background to frame everything. I need it to seem mechanical yet somehow organic. These thumbnails don't feel like environments because of the lack of background

Fantastic Voyage Research + Ideas

Research Cell by lucyyelding

I will describe the cell structure through an adventure story.
A blob creature/alien, who is young and new to the environment  is being sent by their trainer to go and retrieve chromosomes from the nucleus. The creature enters the cell through the cell pores, and tries to make it to the nucleus, but comes through problems (like the RER and golgi apparatus), making his travel difficult. He has a scanning machine which tells him about each new object he passes. When he finally makes it to the nucleus, and removes a chromosome, all lights etc shut down, and the creature is left in the dark, not knowing how to get out.