Actual Bacteria Footage, Research.

Bacteria moving image development 3.

Same video, just playing around with backgrounds. More to come.

Bacteria moving image development 2.

My second attempt, this time making the little critter much more animated and moving, which looks alot more flowing and organic than the first attempt. Although I think the 'eye' or nucleus should be less 'googley'.

Bacteria moving image development!

After being unhappy with my first attempt, inspired by the Spore video below I used 

the same technique to create the little fellow you see before you, I feel it works better slightly,

but needs much more work.

Lovely bit of animation

I forgot how much I loved the opening sequence to The Powerpuff Girls, now with a more design aware eye I never realized how simple yet effectively made it is!

I like the contrast between the pastel colours and black vector style silhouettes, as well as how in many of the frames the images in the foreground are almost

completely still while the background carries the frame amazingly well.

Inspiration at last!

Struggling to work out how I can successful animate such a fluid and organic subject as microbes and bacteria, while researching animations and digitised imagery

using such subjects I was suggested to look at the Spore video game, in this case the Ipod version, below is the short trailer for the game.

As you can see, the main Spore itself is simply made of 3 circles, each of them growing with each frame differently to give the image of a fluid organisms.

This method is something I will try immediately to better my animation!

Test Piece

My first attempt using the bacteria design E4 Logo I created to test how to make the image move

organically like that of a really microbe.

Bearing in mind this is the first attempt at this, I realize I need to slow the movements down to make it look more

creditable.

I want to develop my ideas on how to make the microbes move legitimately  without looking so awkward. 

E4 Logo Ideas

Animation Idea Dev.

Research cont.

The idea of characterizing germs/bacteria that cause disease and illness has become quite the interest point for me, rather than focussing on the obvious things regarding the diseases such as

symptoms, I think using the bacteria as imagery will give me more room to experiment with colour, shape and movement, since bacteria and microbes themselves are so fluid, so should my

ideas and animation should be!

A small promotional clip ala Cartoon Network here, showing the amusing characters The Amoeba Boys from The Powerpuff Girls.

Research

The idea of diseases gave me the idea to look into current digital media that focuses on health, germs, bacteria, epidemics etc. 

Below are a few finds I wanted to document.

Here, an amateur animation based on infection and germs in the human body, I like the linear line-art illustration on the human, and the lack of colour on the outside of the body in comparison to inside.

Below, an obvious choice but interesting none the least, the Toilet Duck advert, which contains characterisation of germs/bacteria, something I find interesting/

Again, another household product advert using animation of germs and bacteria.

Final Video ; Silent Movie.

Here, below the final outcome for the initial After Effects based brief entitled 'Silent Movie', as you can see I have attempted to communicate the three words ; Disburse, Transform and Zip using my basic knowledge of AE and using experimentation during the time given.

I felt happy with the result until I viewed other students attempts, which made me regret not experimenting as much and pushing the ideas further than the simplest ideas, although I feel that in communicating my selected words I was successful, this is something to take heed of for the next brief.

Storyboards for Silent Movie.

Top Ten Best/Worst.

New brief in relation to the digital media module, so over christmas I began looking into lists of Best/Worst, I soon found that the 'worst' lists were more interesting personally, I soon found myself looking/creating  lists based on health due to the amount of reliable data & stats, as well as interesting facts that can back up my research.