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Maya: Fundamentals of Medical Animations

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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.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Emily Holden (McDougall)

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