Hidden in plain sight lies a miniature world full of predators and prey, and life and death. Some of the creepiest critters in the world exist out of sight, at the microscopic level. Join us as we magnify this world into the crystal clarity of Ultra HD. Come visit a world... Beyond the Naked Eye.
They’re in our carpets, on our window sills, and marching across the very bed sheets we sleep on. In fact, some of them not only live on us, they live inside us.
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Beyond The Naked Eye will open your eyes to an alien world living right under your nose.
Using modern 3D computer animation, we're bringing this micro world and its tiny inhabitants to viewers bigger than life. Now, for the first time, we’ll use the latest computer graphics animation to explore this previously-hidden, microscopic world in stunning Ultra HD.
A world where dust mites roam like bison across endless fields of fabric Where even the smallest critters have their own smaller pests living on them A world where pollen floats through the air like snow
Episode Breakdown
Episode One: In Your Home
Explore an entire world teaming with life, right inside your own home. While you might think your home is clean, you'll soon find out that clean is just a relative term. You'll see the thousands of tiny creatures that exist on everything you touch, even the soap in the bathroom. From dust mites to bed bugs, we’ll show you an entire set of “pets” that you share your home with, whether you like it or not.
Episode Two: Backyard Bugs
Journey even farther into a world of micro creatures as we learn about the life forms that exist right outside your back door. Some deadly to humans, and some helpful. We peer into the life of the “water bear” or tardigrade. An organism that can be completely dried up for years and can come back to life with just a drop of water. These strange little beings have even survived the extremes of outer space, making us curious about their origin.
Episode Three: On Your Body
From head to toe, there are hundreds of different species
living off the human body. Some are permanent residents, other just
visitors. From Demodex mites that nestle into the follicles of your
eye lashes to head lice that can lay thousands of eggs. Our bodies
are an entire ecosystem themselves. We'll show the relationships we
have with these tiny symbiotic creates and how they affect our
daily life.
Episode Four: Food Pests
Here we explore the creatures that live on the foods we prepare. Whether we are at home, on the farm or at the grocery store, from cheese mites, mealy moths, cockroach larva, fruit flies, wireworms all survive on the everyday items we eat.
Episode Five: Aliens Inside
Erie tales of worms, flukes and maggots that spend time inside our
bodies—what they do and how they get there. Some are harmless
enough but most are not.
Episode Six: Micro Organisms
In this episode, we go smaller and even deeper into the
world beyond the naked eye. We explore the life cycles of molds and
microbes. Inside the stomachs of the smallest insects lies an
entire ecosystem. We learn about the symbiotic relationships
between the creatures we’ve studied in earlier episodes, and their
paradisiac counterparts.
The Naked Eye Team
Fred Ruff - Technical Director/VFX Supervisor/Producer
Fred has spent 18 years as a technical director on various TV and film projects, including the UHD and stereo versions of Unraveling the Cosmos, Ride Along, MILK, and has supervised and delivered hundreds of VFX shots for NBC’s hit show Grimm. He was also the lead designer on Autodesk’s 3ds Max animation software and has given dozens of talks throughout the world on the topic of visual effects and computer animation.
Tom Jackson - Writer/Science Advisor
Tom has been a writer and editor for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books, including Micro Monsters, and has contributed to hundreds more. He studied zoology at Bristol University and his work has taken him from the Galápagos Islands to the Amazon rain forest and the Sahara Desert.
Steffen Schmidt - Composer
A graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Steffen is a classically-trained composer and conductor. His most recent work includes the short films The Way Home and Assassinating the Tiger, an animated pilot for NBC, and the feature-length documentary Passage to Mars.
