Adaptation: Infographic- The Timeline of a Smile and Making of

         

Final Making Of

Adaptation: Infographics- Update

This is a post to show the development of the infographic, a rough storyboard I did to quickly visualise my ideas and plan the transitions, as well as some initial faces designs and other objects in the animation:

Adaptation: Infographic- Final script

Infographic Script

Adaptation: Infographic- Inital drawings/designs

Concerning my idea of the illusion, these drawings will make it a bit clearer:
The iceberg morphs into a face of an old man, in which the bottom bit of his face is the brain of the "real character" this is to show that the brain is the hidden part of the iceberg which will be explored, but the visible part which is the face ( Smile) is the brain of the old man, so his face will be then flipped 180 degrees in order for the drawing to make sense.

As I am going for a minimalist approach, I tried to experiment with the pen tool but found out I did not remember how to use it properly, so I have used the lasso tool just to quickly get an idea of the overall design, but I will go back to the pen tool for future designs.

I have also used one of my picture as a reference to understand what I need to include in the design in order to show a "Duchenne smile", meaning a real smile, in which the muscles around the eye wrinkle.

A quick study to understand the muscles involved in the smile:

Adaptation: Infographic- Script.v1

Following a problem on Scribd, failing to upload my script PDF, I will post it here:

THE SMILE

The smile is just like, uh, let's see, a house? no, no,

no, an undercover agent? Nooooo.

Em, how about an iceberg?

hm, yeah, the small visible part of the iceberg is the

smile but what's hidden is the most interesting part.

Before we smile a few things happen between 0.3s and

4seconds.

First, we sense, hear or see something and this take form

of an information.

Secondly, This information goes to the Temporal lobe in

which it gets processed.

Lateralisation occurs, this means, the left and right

temporal lobe communicate to absorb information such as

visual memories, sensory input and emotions.

Thirdly, this information gets planned and executed in a

Neural network called the Extrapyradimal system.

Alright, we are nearly ready to smile now.

I bet you are smiling already.

After the execution is done, the facial nerve transports a

signal to the face, more specifically, the Zygomaticus

Major and the Orbicularis Oculli.

Here we go, ready?

Finally, the corners of the mouth and cheeks are pulled

and the muscles around the eyes wrinkle.

Adaptation: Infographic- Transitions

Concerning the overall design and transition, I am going for a minimalistic style which I believe would make a nice contrast with the complexity of my idea " The timeline of a smile".
Below are some influences I will be considering during the production stage, such as using one point of focus and this point will lead from one stage of the animation to the other by using different continuous transitions such as Morph.