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To create immersive ‘Worlds’ we’ll deploy the latest cool VFX techniques to capture raw data and images that will then be aesthetically manipulated to provide a more cinematic, organic and atmospheric experience.  This will be realized through additional lighting effects, shader and texture work to 3D assets.

BIOLUMINESCENCE

We aim to make the OSR experience magical, immersive and revelatory. So we’ve been inspired by the natural spectacle of bioluminescence to reveal invisible processes at work within the natural world.

Bioluminescence occurs naturally in marine animals, certain fungi, and insects such as fireflies. So we’ll replicate the effect of this light-show to visualize movements and flows within invisible worlds that can never normally be seen with the naked eye. We’ll visualize Earth’s systems at work and phenomena such as trees absorbing vital nutrients from the soil, and the release of energy through life on a global scale.

PRACTICAL EFFECTS

We want OSR to incorporate a living, organic aesthetic to worlds normally created digitally, so the series will major on specially commissioned practical effects, including fluids, particles and gases.  These elements will be layered with CG to help create more organic looking worlds like nebulas, magnetospheres and the Earth's core. High-speed elements will be filmed to give mesmerizing detail to events such as the collision of Theia or the surface of the Sun.  Chris Parks is an expert in this field and will be one of our collaborators.

DARK FIELD MICROSCOPY

Dark field microscopy is a very simple yet effective technique and well suited for uses involving live and unstained biological samples, such as a smear from a tissue culture or individual, water-borne, single-celled organisms.

The image is created from light scattered by the sample producing an image akin to a full color x-ray. The quality of images obtained from this technique are impressive and will form part of the look for our Micro World.

Normal microscopy tends to look rather one dimensional, flat and bland, but these images can observe living organisms that are mobile because they don’t need staining in the same way as conventional imaging – and reveal a darker, more visceral and sinister view of microscopic living creatures.

PHOTOGRAMMETRY

From Nano-scale to entire aerial landscapes, photogrammetry offers unprecedented photographic detail in 3D modelling. Hi-res images are captured from multiple points around a subject with a digital camera or drone, then stitched together to create a fully textured 3D model or environment that can be re-lit, or animated. It’ll give OSR complete flexibility for generating new worlds and dynamic camera moves, and for creating photo-realistic landscapes, objects and avatars. The examples below show the raw capturing techniques that we will be using and are therefore not all representative of the finished styling.

Link: How to take photos for Photogrammetry 

NANO FLIGHT

Here’s a way to completely revolutionize our view of the sub-microscopic world. Working with Scientific photography expert Stefan Diller, OSR will enter the Nano-scale world as never before – by taking scanning electron microscopy into a 3D space.  Imagine flying into the heart of a real muscle fiber, through the hairs on the back of a flea as the sun rises over its back, or gliding across the compound eye of a newly hatched butterfly.  This technique mirrors the complex textural detail we can see on the bigger-scale worlds around us but at a level of scientific accuracy quite literally never-seen-before.     

http://www.nanoflight.info