The Solar System: Can life exist beyond

This is the final version of my info graphic. Enjoy!

Also here's a link to it on Vimeo

The Solar System: Can life exist beyond

Rationale

In the info graphic I created for this assignment I wanted to explore the possibility that life could exist beyond earth. I wanted to keep the animation style very simple and use basic shapes and colours so the information wouldn't get lost in detailed drawings. My original intention was not to use a voice over but after trying to reduce my information down to a bear minimum I found I would have to otherwise the animation would be overrun by text, which is not what I wanted. 

I think the graphic style I used worked well and looked much better once I'd change the colours. I took my inspiration from an existing info graphic about our solar system (I've posted it early on my blog) The overall animation style used in that animation works well and I think I adapted it well to my animation. I liked the idea that elements would zoom in and out and only doing scene changes when new information is presented.

Water Droplet tutorial

I found this tutorial to help with one of my scene transitions.

Style sheet

This sheet contains all the elements I will need for my info graphic. I think it give a pretty good idea of how it's going to look once it's animated.

animatic

This is my animatic I used the script I currently have to work out the rough timing of each scene. It currently runs 10 seconds overtime. I have managed to cut down the whole thing to about 1 minute and 5 seconds but should get a better idea when I record my voice over.

Final story board

The final version of my storyboard with all camera shots and scene transitions as well as the narration for each scene.
I decided to use a voice over as I have to much info to display on each page and If I cut it down I have the feeling nothing will make sense.

Now to make an animatic to work out the timing and see if anything needs to be cut down.

Tutorial

Found this tutorial, it should be pretty helpful for when I make the solar system model at the stat of my animation.