Jellyfish Pictures is very proud of the work it produced for the landmark series Inside the Human Body, which was broadcast on BBC One at 9pm on Thursday 5^th May, 2011.

Creative director Philip Dobree and his team were delighted when they were asked to help the BBC
development team pitch the idea. “We saw this as an opportunity to take what we had achieved on Fight for Life and move it to another level," says Dobree. "By showing the processes and stories inside the human body in a narrative and immersive way rather than an abstract functional way, gave us an opportunity to try out some new techniques we had been developing," he said.

Initial inspiration came from an old source for Jellyfish, the photography of Lennart Nilsson. Looking at his magical imagery of the inside of the human body, along with the work of Jellyfish concept artist Chris Rosewarne, the team started to build up a picture of the way the CGI sequences should look. The principle objective was to create a world that people looked at and didn’t quite know how it was achieved. It was important that it had a very strong photographic feel but still presenting magical and “unreal” worlds of complex, immersive, cathedral type spaces.

Jellyfish worked principally on Episode 1 - Creation. The film follows the story of conception inside the female body.

We travel with the sperm as it makes its epic journey through all the hurdles and challenges presented to it by the female defence systems and the one in twenty million chance it has of successfully fertilising the female egg. We follow it as it is remarkably laid to rest until the egg is ready to receive it. Simultaneously we see the egg being formed in the ovaries and its release and journey down the fallopian tubes where it eventually meets the one successful sperm at its moment of calling.

Link to BBC Website for 'Inside the Human Body'

Link to BBC Radio 4 Front Row Review

Radio 4's Mark Lawson discusses Inside the Human Body with Science Journalist and Presenter Dr Adam Rutherford. A quote from the programme:

"I've spent a lot of my life looking at representations of the inside of the human body, both healthy and diseased, and I can't think of a more striking example of the CGI that they've used in this series"

Reviews:

"BBC1’s new documentary Inside the Human Body ramps up the science while managing to dispense with a lot of the confusion. In the first episode of this in-depth series, the story of human creation is revealed in extraordinary detail. Presented by former doctor Michael Mosley, with the help of state-of-the-art CGI, there are no details spared in describing how the sperm manages to make the long and arduous journey to finally fertilise the uterus (the CGI makes the a human egg look exactly like a scotch egg).

As the documentary goes on, it explains quite how miraculous it is that one of your dad’s sperm managed to make it to fertilising your mum’s egg (fun fact: your mum’s eggs all developed when she was a foetus) and how the resulting union developed into a foetus that developed into you. Talk about a brain melter. The CGI’s incredible detail is very illuminating in getting the point across (I was really rooting for the sperm to make it) and at times the whole thing begins to look like a cross between Wonders of the Universe and a some crazy science-fiction film."  ~ Peter Meehan, On the Box (May 05, 2011)