Thursday, March 25, 2010

visual style and a chromosome

Committee meetings, maya courses, and modeling has given me lots of new inspiration and tools for visualizing this animation; some ideas:

- a nearly monochromatic palette, with an india ink / renaissance ink rendering style

- except for: any sources of antibody diversity, which will be rendered with highly saturated colour, and a texture that shows off and uses the models' 3D properties (ambient occlusion; sharp, glossy speculars; volume/fog shading to suggest particle and fluid-filled objects; caustics and global illumination; subtle bump maps; transparencies; incandescence..)

- this theme of monochromatic vs. colour will carry over into the 2D/contour drawings of DNA events (gene rearrangement and gene conversion)

- because both coloured and renaissance-ink-style objects will be in the same world, they'll both be affected by lens blurs (and bokeh effects), atmospheric perspective, camera distortions, motion blurs