Learn basic principles and techniques of 3D medical animation using Autodesk Maya 2018. Explore visual aesthetics and creating medical animations like cell division and blood flow.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- 3D animating the hidden world of human anatomy
- What you should know
- Why study medical animation?
- Finding the best references
- Protein Data Bank and Chimera
- Storyboarding your medical animation
- Introduction to animation projects
- Commonly used tools: MASH
- Commonly used tools: nCloth and nParticles
- Commonly used tools: Paint effects
- Commonly used tools: Blend shapes
- Animating cell division, part 1
- Animating cell division, part 2
- Animating cell death, part 1
- Animating cell death, part 2
- Animating tumor growth, part 1
- Animating tumor growth, part 2
- Animating blood cell flow, part 1
- Animating blood cell flow, part 2
- Aesthetics in medical animation
- Three-point lighting
- Cinematic lighting
- Working with layered shaders
- Working with shader subsurface scattering
- Working with shader transparency
- Next steps
Taught by
Emily Holden (McDougall)
