Maya: Fundamentals of Medical Animations

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.

Introduction

• 3D animating the hidden world of human anatomy
• What you should know

1. What Is Medical Animation?

• Why study medical animation?
• Finding the best references
• Protein Data Bank and Chimera
• Storyboarding your medical animation

2. Basic Medical Animations

• 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

3. Visual Impact

• Aesthetics in medical animation
• Three-point lighting
• Cinematic lighting
• Working with layered shaders
• Working with shader subsurface scattering
• Working with shader transparency

Conclusion

• Next steps