ANIMATION
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk 3DSMax
Blender
Adobe AfterEffects
Stent Placement Animation
Autodesk Maya, Blender, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Scriptwriting. Project manager. Scriptwriting. Animation of blood vessels. Modeling of background vessels. Rendering.
Audience: Patients considering stent placement surgery.
Purpose: Inform patients about the restoration of blood flow accomplished by placement of a stent in the blocked vessel.
Innervation and Action of the Extrinsic Eye Muscles
Autodesk Maya, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Scriptwriting. Animation, rendering, and compositing. Modeling of eye and muscles.
Audience: Undergraduate anatomy students.
Purpose: Demonstrate the innervation and motion of the muscles that control movement of the eye.
ORIF Procedure Animatic
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Scriptwriting. Creation of vector assets and animation.
Audience: Medical-legal audiences.
Purpose: Demonstrate the steps of an Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) surgical procedure on a defendant.
Hemagglutinin Host Cell Attachment
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Creation of vector assets and animation.
Audience: General audiences
Purpose: Show the conformation change when hemagglutinin attaches to a receptor on a host cell.
Knee Replacement Animation
Autodesk Maya, Blender, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Animation, 3D modeling of hardware, rendering and compositing, and animation of labels and title sequences.
Audience: Surgeons considering benefits of a knee replacement system.
Purpose: Demonstrate steps used to install knee replacement hardware and restored knee function.
Bone Remodeling and the OPG/RANK-L Complex
Autodesk 3DStudio Max, Blender, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Animation, 3D modeling, rendering and compositing. Animation of 2D elements.
Audience: Undergraduate students.
Purpose: Highlight the interaction of Osteoprotegerin (OPG) and RANK-L in the process of bone remodeling.
Breast Cancer Self-Examination Animation
Sketchbook, Adobe AfterEffects
Roles: Scriptwriting. Creation of illustrated assets. Animation.
Audience: General audiences.
Purpose: Guide the viewer through the steps of breast cancer self-examination and describe warning signs.
Reverse Storyboard Exercise
For this assignment, we were asked to view an animation and create storyboards that accurately depicted the actions.
