Virus 1 - Influenza

This character is based on the virus Influenza (flu).

We have given this character a little script, which is as followed:

My name is Influenza,

But you can call me Fat Tony.

One cough or sneeze,

Even if you breathe too deeply,

Thats it! 

Your Finito! hahahaha

This is the template design for our virus 1 - Influenza

This template has now been coloured in and is ready to be placed together in Max 3D.

3D Max Design

This is the 3D template for the first bug.

Quick Sketch of first bug

The features for the face have not yet been designed.

Next Step...

From the quotation, we have decided to go along with using the term virus as a virus within us, classing us as a virus. By researching some of the basic bugs and viruses we get, we will be designing creature like viruses that symbolize what the bug/virus looks like so when you have a cough for example, you would imagine what it would look like. 

Now that we have got a quotation that would work well for this project these are our next following steps:

1) Design front and side views of the creature virus that are within us on paper.

2) Create a 3D structure of the creature virus in 3D Max.

3) In photoshop create a textural design for the creature virus

4) Back in 3D Max re-structure the creature virus.

5) Create a mini animation displaying the creature virus.

Quotation Chosen to...

This is the quotation that we are going to base our project on for the word 'Viruses'

Quotation taken from the film The Matrix. (Quotation at 1:08)

Written Quotation:

"... Human beings are a disease. A cancer for this planet. You are a Plague."

Images of Viruses

© Russell Kightley Media (rkm.com.au) Computer Virus Picture

© ISTOCKPHOTO/SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI - Image of HIV Virus

 

Photographer: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI. Agency: dreamstime.com

Quotes for Viruses

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material. 
Francis Crick 

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. 
Stephen Hawking 

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. 

Ian Smith 

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recongized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn then into the Pasteur Institute.

William S. Burroughs