[Vision2020] A Must-See Video -- Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

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http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/6850.html

>From Studio Daily — Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell

Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, 
gliding and twisting through 3D space. “All of those things that you 
see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your 
body all the time,” says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler, who worked 
with company partners David Bolinsky, XVIVO’s medical director, and 
Mike Astrachan, the project’s production director, to blend the 
academic data and narrative from Harvard’s faculty into a fluid visual 
interpretation. “First, we couldn’t have known where to begin with all 
of this material without significant work done by Alain Viel, Ph.D. 
[associate director of undergraduate research at Harvard University], 
who wrote and guided the focus to include the essential processes that 
needed to be described to complement the curriculum and sustain an 
interesting narrative. I’ve been in the medical animation field for 
seven years now, so I’m a little jaded, but I still get surprised by 
things. For instance, in the animation there’s a motor protein that’s 
sort of walking along a line, carrying this round sphere of lipids. 
When I started working on that section I admit I was kind of surprised 
to see that it really does look like it’s out for a stroll, like a 
character in a science fiction film or animation. But based on all the 
data, it’s a completely accurate rendering.”

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