Finally posting something.... I've been reworking most of the parts in the animation. I have included the bug that appears under the salt shaker as i move it. I'm trying to composite it to look as real as possible. But i wanted to add a surreal touch to the bugs, hence the glowing antennas and such.

There's a moment in the kitchen scene where the salt shaker transforms into a butterfly. I changed the butterfly into a make belief bug. Feel it looks better that way.

Only thing left is to make all the components blend well in AE. Also alot of time remapping to do ... was hoping to get that confused feel where certain parts of the movie fast forward with a glitch sfx.

Edited story

I've changed the concept or rather i'm leaving a scene out. Removing the whole "machine operated screens" segment since it doesnt really convey clearly. Instead the focus of the animation will be the character's hallucinations, in this case Bugs.

Starting from the salt shaker, the animation moves on to the toilet scene where the character is attacked by his reflection and swarmed by bugs emitting from the cornor of the wall. When screen fills with bugs the scene cuts to character sitting in an asylum.

below are the low res renders for the bug (swarm) and butterfly (saltshaker)

I'm keeping the beetle lo res so that it wont kill the cpu when i render the swarm. The butterfly will have alot more detail. May be creating a high res beetle in case i wana do close up shots of the bugs crawling up the character's arm

bug renders

Sequence

This new version is just 1 movie instead of the initial 3 short movies idea. here's the sequence.
I'll be using mainly video and layered 3d, keeping the theme dark

New concept

I've rethought my concept based on John's comments about making the concept a personal exploration of the psych rather then within a documentary setting. Decided i'll do something along the same lines of mental disorders, focusing on halucinations/nightmares but the new concept is a ficticious, exagerated hallucinatory experiance. This way I wouldnt have too limit my content to keep it accurate but will have freedom as to how i potray the events.

I've decided to make the theme darker and leaning towards a serial killer kind of story. The movie will be done with video as the datum and layered with 3d animations.

references

http://www.kompostnyc.com/trekant.html

Nice ambient style

http://www.motionographermedia.com/lemontree/thelemontree.mov

the lemon tree vid is the closest i could find of a style I'm hoping to achieve

http://www.pokedstudio.com/pokedesign_illustration_portfolio.html

http://www.nobrain.fr/flims_real/citroen.htm

these r links to vids I gained influence from

Poked studio is a studio focusing on illustrations - good colour grading and hue selection.

colour grading and styles

Concept for Major PRoj

Concept

Discovery Channel is creating a 3 part documentary on mental disorders called “”. The focus of the 3 episodes will be Schizophrenia, Manic-Depression and Anorexia Nervosa. The client requires 3 TV spots introducing each segment that should run between 20-30 seconds.

The intention is to present a serious issue within a contemporary motion graphics setting. The client wants a visually creative concept that visualises the debilitating affects of mental disorders and allows the audience to imagine what having a mental disorder can feel like, and causes the audience to empathise and feel the need to know more about these issues.

Schizophrenia - (split mind) is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia)

Hallucinations appear in the form of – Tactile, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, Visual experiences.

Manic Depression – Manic (severe elevated mood), Depression (sad, low)

Person affected shows significant disturbance in mood. A change of mood from high to low occurs intermittently.

Anorexia Nervosa – Persons affected has a distorted body image of themselves. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.

Production techniques

Media used will include simple 3D objects and 2D art. All components will be animated to give a sense of growth whilst filling up the space. Each segment is to be kept short and concise and will have a similar style.

From the research done the 3 disorders seem similar in experiences in the sense that they appear to be apparitional experiences. Meaning that although nothing has changed, the environment one is surrounded by seems to manipulate itself.

For this reason it is decided to present each spot as apparitions that come and go while interacting with the main character. Videoed ink and smoke will be used as masks for the fade in/out of apparitions throughout the sequence.

The idea is to force the viewer to focus on the main character, with the surrounding space growing in colour and life and then emptying the scene to complement the apparitional experience.

The main character and the immediate surroundings will be modelled and animated in 3d for more control over camera angles. Animations will be rendered with minimum colour as colour grading and hue adjustments can be altered with more control in After Effects.

All other components will be created in 3d and combined in AE.