Exercise Physiology
D-HEST
Multiple videos on the nitty and gritty of how our bodies turn food into energy to move, or what happens to oxygen in our lungs under immense pressures while diving.
What we did:
Script
Design
Animation
Sound Design
Bioenergetics
This Video is designed to be used as theoretical part in a lecture and covers how the body synthesizes and uses three basic substrates from food to make motion possible.
Diving
How does our body know when it’s out of oxygen while diving? Receptors in the body measure the levels of O2 and CO2 in the blood. Once the levels hit a threshhold, we feel the urge to take a breath. Making sure you have enough oxygen is just one of many things we have to consider to stay save while diving.
Process
From Sketch to Image
1.Content Experts provide relevant content
2. Script, 3. Storyboard and 4. Design
While carbohydrate oxidation dominates at higher intensities, the contribution of fat oxidation increases at lower intensities.
2.Script
3.Storyboard
4.Design
5. finalized image in the video
different elements of the final image
RIGGING
Making it all move
Early rigging test of a single arm with muscle animation.
This type of animation is called puppet animation and it depends on planning the joints ahead in the design of the Characters.
The blue circles represent the circular digital joints.
The separate parts are connected using a digital skeleton. This allows for precise control of the limbs guided by controllers on hands, torso and feet.
process of connecting limbs to skelleton
In the final step the Puppets are animated, pose by pose through time.
Reference footage was used to make the movements more realistic.
process of posing the character
People involved
Project Lead D-HEST:
Prof. Dr. Christina Spengler
Dr. Fernando Gabe Beltrami
Project Lead MML:
Judith Rehmann M.A.
Robin Bretscher
Script Development:
Prof. Dr. Christina Spengler
Judith Rehmann M.A.
Robin Bretscher
Visual & Motion Design:
Hannes Oehen
Sound Design:
Hannes Oehen
Additional Animation:
Estelle Gattlen
Elyna Zamree
Voice Over:
Dan Akers
Backstopping:
Dr. Jeanine Reutemann