In this tutorial medical illustrator Annie Campbell will show you how to use Adobe Illustrator’s blend tool to create vector blood vessels.

Drawing individual red blood cells (RBCs) in an illustration—especially when they are not the main focus of the piece—can become quite tedious and time consuming. This is where I find using a pre-made RBC bush really speeds up my production process. This tutorial shows you how to create your own RBC brush and tailor it to your needs.

Emily Holden, the co-founder of Learn Medical Art and director of Now Medical Studios, showcases how you can use Maya MASH to create animated villi.

Emily Holden, the co-founder of Learn Medical Art and director of Now Medical Studios, showcases how you can use Maya MASH to create a simple red blood cell flow animation.

Alice Kitterman offers some workflow tips on how to develop engaging content for social media, specifically Instagram in this article for Science.

Jeroen Claus, director of Phospho Biomedical Animation, creates a guest tutorial for the Entagma group on how to visualize and animate the SARS-Cov-2’s spike protein using tools available in Houdini. Dr Jeroen Claus, a biologist and expert in visualizing molecular structures, is passionate about creating stunning animations to showcase excellent science.

In this tutorial medical animator, Emily Holden, will teach you how to animate neuronal firing using the MASH toolset and Mesh Lights with the Arnold renderer in Maya 2018 (or 2017). This is one of the classic medical animations we see of neurons firing in the brain.

Art fundamental training is so important to learn and maintain throughout your creative career however it’s something that can easily be forgotten as you progress through your professional life. Medical illustrators, Annie Campbell and Emily Holden, shed some light into the importance of art fundamentals as they focus on growing their creative team.