Visual Design - Character Design - Motion Design
Beyond the Visible is a Massive Open Online Course created by Gfz Potsdam (German Research Centre for Geosciences) with EO-College and many other partner institutions.
Developing the visual language of this course, which teaches the basics of imaging spectroscopy, we wanted to keep the visuals simple and clean with soft color tones.
A hyperspectral image shows you not only a surface in 2D, but in addition, it shows many layers of information that go under the surface like the material, the temperature etc. And these images can be taken in the field, from a plane, or from a satellite.
In the intro we show an overview of the process. A ray of sun is reflected from a surface on Earth into the receiver in the satellite. This information has various layers of information that can be useful in a variety of fields.
Animatic
Animation
Character and Background design for the teacher.
Design of the character of the teacher, Charly, for the online course Beyond the Visible as well as the background design of the scenes he finds himself in.
The character is a male teacher, friendly and professional. Ready to go into the lab, in his clean and neat outfit and also ready to go on a field trip with his boots on. The background is designed in the same green and grey tones as the visual style of the course to keep a consistent language throughout the course.
The scenes begin at the library, then go to the field to collect data and finally on the desk analyzing the data and studying it.
Design process
Three concepts for the teacher character design
Rough turn-around of the chosen concept.
Final character turn-around for the course
