MOVIES
Production Process
PRE-PRODUCTION
Hello! Our first meeting ...
After initial contact, we will schedule a first meeting
to discuss your project goals and timeline.
We will coordinate proposals, scheduling, meetings, and budget.
During phases 1-5 (below),
we evaluate the project for possible roadblocks in production
and work with you to minimize them.
Our goal in the pre-production stage is to develop an organized framework
so we can efficiently deliver your project.
Project Needs & Research
At the outset, we work closely with you to discover
the scientific as well aesthetic needs of your project.
As needed, we provide supporting research for your
project and lay the foundation for your scientific visualization
Review & Production Proposal
Next, we review the project proposal with you
and assess the production timeline
Outline
To commence conceptual work on your project narrative,
we work with you to create an outline of ideas that connect
with your intended audience
Storyboard
Next, we create a storyboard (and optional voiceover script)
and work together on encapsulating the molecular characters,
cinematic composition, and recurring theme(s) of
your narrative, to arrive at an effective evolution
of your story and message(s)
Animatic
Before production begins, we may create a run-time
animatic whose function is to provide a better feel
for the course and timing of the final movie
(when suitable, we match the approved storyboard
frames and script)
REVIEWS
With reviews at the storyboard, style-development,
and animatic stages, our process is formulated to
freeze content and design decisions step-by-step,
to ensure efficiency and minimize unplanned
labor-intensive changes. Part of the process
are one to two runs of feedback at each stage.
Our ultimate goal is to deliver high-quality work,
on time and on budget.
Modeling, Texturing & Lighting!
We use programming workflows, professional
3D modeling & movie production and other specialized software to create molecular models
(and if suitable, organic environments) that transform concepts
in the storyboard, key ideas and scientific information,
into 3D visuals.
Your project will be created by skilled staff with Ph.D. qualifications.
Protein Data Bank (PDB), Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB), and other databases
for drugs, proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrate and
lipid species, and other molecules, will be used to help recreate molecular constructs and system landscapes that are as detailed as possible or suitable
for your project.
We then texture, light, and orient your models in cinematic,
digital environments.
Style-Development Sheets
Style-sheets with still images of models in their
digital sets are then created.
They are used to show composition, textures,
and colors of key frames from the storyboard,
with actors as they will appear in the movie.
Your Movie
We give life to your models and concepts,
during this most labor-intensive phase.
During this phase, a full-draft movie is created for your review.
It aims to be close to final and will typically not undergo changes that dramatically
deviate from the storyboard or style-sheets.
POST-PRODUCTION
After final compositing and editing,
we deliver the final movie at full resolution
and suitable codecs.
All revisions have been made and your movie is ready for use in:
group meetings, presentations,
conferences
posters, publications
funding applications
web presence
social media
etc.