Fantastic Voyage: First ideas (thinking out loud)

A few possible scenarios:

- The hookworm life cycle narrated as a dark fairytale (the bookworm?):

Visually based on scherenschnitte (traditional German paper cutting technique) - manichaean world populated by sharp silhouettes. Details of the human anatomy translated into classic fairytale environments: woods, swamps, moors etc. Macabre, snake, blood, wolf, egg, heart imagery. 2D, flat but staged with multiple layers that create perspective. Stop motion effect if achievable. Limited, grim colour palette: black/purple-white/cream, red-black-white/cream, red-blue-white-black.

- A Wes Anderson approach to the slime mold life cycle.

Since slime mold is an organism found in the woods, I thought the topic might be relevant to the boy/girl-scout culture (targeted age-group) and the video could thus be in the same spirit.
Exploration of tiny worlds in an informative-fun style
Narrator
Crafty feeling
Old fashioned, signature colour palette
90 degrees pan shots (or completely flat staging)
Listing, inventories
Symmetry
Bold typography
Quick cuts
Simple shading

- B&W spy/secret agent story of the influenza virus life cycle

Virus having to hijack the membrane in order to get in the cell
Virus uncoating itself = reveals its true colours
RNA as secret files/data that the virus-spy would insert in the commando central and make copies of
Virus sneakily reprogamming the « cell mechanic » - ribosomes
Spectacular escape and destruction of the cell
Cell dies - zoom out to show that this is happening to a thousand of other cells