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Fantastic Voyage Art of
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Juanjo Estany
Fantastic Voyage · The Project
✴ Answer the question about what happens when living things die.
✴ Describe the process of decay and how carbon is released and returns to the
atmosphere.
✴ Mention fossilization.
Chosen Audience
✴ Anyone who has ever wondered what happens to living things when they die.
✴ Anyone who has ever wondered what happens to living things when they die.
✴ The animation short will help them to see this event from a biological pointof view
and will make them understand how the ‘trapped’ carbon returnsto the beginning
of the cycle.
Influence Maps
Visual Reference
✴ Watercolour paintings.
NARRATOR
INT. FOREST - NIGHT Carbon is the extraordinary
chemical element that constitutes
Main titles. all living things.
The camera pans down until we see a withering old tree The atom shines.
blowing in the wind.
NARRATOR (CONT'D)
NARRATOR There is no other element capable
All living organisms on Earth will of forming molecules as large,
eventually die, there's no complex and stable as the carbon
fighting it. based ones.
The screen is splits in three showing a carbon chain, a DNA
THE CAMERA PANS DOWN TO THE GROUND molecule and a carbon bond (labelled with examples).
GROUND:
CAMERA ZOOMS OUT.
In the dark.
Full shot of the Earth from the space.
NARRATOR
Although each of us will pass away NARRATOR
at some point, nothing goes to As Carbon is present in all living
waste in nature. organisms... and there is a fixed
amount of it in the Earth crust,
FADE: it needs to be recycled.
TURNING PAGE:
ESTABLISHING SHOT.
NARRATOR (CONT'D)
Sky full of stars. The carbon-cycle describes the
circulation of carbon atoms in the
biosphere, being passed on as
THE CAMERA PANS DOWN AND ZOOMS IN ON A FALLEN LEAF INSIDE A molecules react and being passed
FOREST. on from one living thing to
another, as a consequence of
processes like photosynthesis and
BIRD EYE'S VIEW. respiration.
NARRATOR We observe a diagram formed by a plant and an animal.
So, what happens after life ends?
✴ Worked as a professional voiceover and voice actor for over fifteen years.
✴ In this project the most used material was Lambert, as I wanted to achieve a look
neither too stylized nor too realist.
✴ I achieved this thanks to the ‘matte’ aspect of the material combined with
textures formed mainly by one colour and a picture.
✴ The only exception can be found in the first shot, in which I used surface shaders
to create contrast.
Texture Samples
Digital Sets
Shot 1 · Dry Tree
Shot 2 · Forest
Shot 3 · Atoms & Molecules
Shot 4 · World
Shot 5· Dead Bird
Book
Rock
Leaf 01
Plant
Shot 12 · Forest
Shot 16/17
Shot 18
Sound Design
Adobe Audition
Compositing
Juanjo Estany
juanjoestany@outlook.com