Medical Animation Tutorials
Medical animation is a big part of our industry’s service offerings. Here you’ll find tutorials and articles to help you level up your medical animation game.
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Medical Animation Tutorials & Articles
In this video, you can get a glimpse into the type of in-house training she provides her team members at Now Medical Studios. Susie provides a clear and easy approach to drawing hair that has volume, is believable, and stands up to commercial medical illustration projects. Immerse yourself into the professional world and have a watch to get an insight into her thought process as she does a draw over and provides feedback to another medical illustration artist.
Being able to depict protein folds in an accurate way is one of the many knowledge points that comes with being a medical illustrator. Seasoned medical illustrator, Veronica Falconieri Hays, shares a resource that you can add to your toolkit to help you depict protein Alpha folds correctly in her most recent article.
Stuart Jantzen, from Biocinematics, presents an insightful and detailed overview of the principles and best practices in depicting and animating molecular structures in medical visualisations.
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.
School of Motion interviews talented medical animation team, Microverse Studios, to get an in-depth breakdown on the tools they used to create this animated short on gene therapy and its ability to kill cancer cells.