Virtual Anatomy - About Project

Animation Finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Publication nearly finished!!

and then just cd to burn

Then WALLA

Virtual Anatomy - Final Rendered Animation Clips 7, 8 and 9 - With Textures, Lighting and Camera Movement

7 - Blood vessels redilate and blood pressure increases

8 - The throat expands so more air can enter the body

9 - The heart regains an normal beating rhythm

Virtual Anatomy - Final Rendered Animation Clips 5 and 6 - With Textures, Lighting and Camera Movement

5 - Heart beat increases and becomes irregular

6 - Epi pen is injected into thigh muscle

Virtual Anatomy - Final Rendered Animation Clips 3 and 4 - With Textures, Lighting and Camera Movement

3 - The throat contracts : less air enters the body

4 - Blood vessels dilate causing blood pressure to drop

Virtual Anatomy - Final Rendered Animation Clips 1 and 2 - With Textures, Lighting and Camera Movement

1 - Food travels down throat

2 - Mass cells detect foreign food and attack it : releasing histamines

Virtual Anatomy - Final Pictured Renders Of Textured Scenes

Virtual Anatomy - Textures

These are the textures I have used on my models for my animation. I have both designed and used realistic textures as I was unable to find sufficient images for some areas of my models for example inside the throat. For the areas I designed, I found images that were not good enough to texture and used the characteristics of them to make my own. I wanted to achieve the best result for my textures so I decided not to use UV's as I did not feel confident enough after a few tries. Although I am going to keep trying as they will enhance my models further as some parts look at bit patchy.

Virtual Anatomy - More Experimentation With Language

First I just started by using the default settings - black font, segoe font and positioning at the top

I decided that the black font was too dark and was hard to see on top of the visual, so i changed the black to the more bold colour of red which stood out great from the visual

After I had chose the font colour, I thought that the default font was a bit cartoony so I know it seems plain but I changed it to the arial font because it is rigid and I think gives across the point as a serious matter which the subject is.

Lastly the position of the text was at the top and overhung the edge due to it being in widescreen format, so I simply used the enter key until the text was roughly in the middle of the image

Virtual Anatomy - Experimentation With Language

First I tried adding text before the movie clip



Then I tried adding text on top of the movie clip

After I tried adding spoken narration over the movie clip

Lastly text over still image before movie clip

I have decided to go with my last experimentation of text over a still image before movie clip. I abandoned the text before the clip because it lacked visual characteristics, I abandoned the text over the clip as the text detracted from the visuals as you could only concentrate on one of them. I also abandon the narration as i would not be able to get access to quality sound recording equipment and bad and unclear narration is not worth having and detracts from the movie. The reason I went for the text on still image before the movie clip because you get both the visual content and the text element without compromise.

I now need to consider - font, font colour and positioning

Virtual Anatomy - Pre-Viz Animation

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Of Heart

Normal Heart-Beat

Fast Heart-Beat

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling The Heart

I first started by splitting a cube up into 5 subdivision on each side. Then I repositioned vertices and scaled up edge loops into the rough shape. Then I extruded a few faces on top to form a blood vessel.









I then created cylinders and spheres and matched them up to the edges of the heart to form the veins and arteries.

I then used the same technique of manipulating vertices and edge loops to form a lung, to make it realistic I made the lung slightly wider than the heart so it overhung and also penetrated the heart with the lung as part of the heart is hidden behind the lung really.

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Of Muscle

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling The Muscle

I started first by flattening a sphere and elongating it.














Then I multiplied this shape loads of times , overlappin them all and changing the texture colour slightly each time.












Then I created a small cylinder and pinched it at one end using the scale tool













Then I placed the needle under the muscle and key framed it then pierced the muscle with it and keying it again

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Of Blood Vessels

Travelling Blood

Dilating Blood

Narrowing Blood

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling The Blood Vessels

First I created a cylinder and removed the end faces, then I put a translucent blue lambert texturing on to it so when i put the cells inside they can be seen












After I modelled a red blood cell by creating a short cylinder and then set the subdivisions to 5. I then extruded one ring of the top face subdivisions slightly out. To then finish it I smoothed it to give it a more curvacious look and added a red lambert texture.














After this I duplicated the cell, loads of times, repositoning each one individually. I repositioed them in a cylinder formation so would fit inside the cylinder blood vessel.












I then moved the formation of red blood cells inside the transparent cylinder












I then added a darker transparent squashed cylinder inside the othe cylinder and key framed it so it could rise or fall showing dilation and narrowing.

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Of Constricting and Expanding Throat

Constricting Throat

Expanding Throat

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling the Throat Contracting and Expanding

I used the throat model and started by key framing it, then I selected the edge loops and scaled them smaller and key framed it so when played it looks like it is constricting.







I repeated this but scaled the edge loops bigger so when played it looks like it is expanding instead of constricting

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Of Attacking Cells

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling The Mass Cells

First of all I started by copying a piece of chewed up food from the throat and then surrounding it with green spheres which represent the mass cells acting the food.





I then added a key frame and moved the green spheres so they look attached and key framed them again, I then created small spheres and copied them and moved them randomly so they looked like bubbles of histamines.

After I key framed the bubbles, I moved them inside and key framed them again. Then I copied the throat cylinder and rotated it and surrounded the food with the cylinder.

Virtual Anatomy - Animation Down The Throat

Virtual Anatomy - Modelling The Throat

I started with a cylinder and cut it up using the insert edge loop tool, then i extruded out the faces with wider gaps between the edge loops to give a ridged effect.







I then copied the ridged cylinder, rotating and moving into the position shown in the render below









After I created a flap covering the wind pipe and textured it in a pink lambert colour like skin and created some chewed up nuts in the esophagus which I textured in different shades of brown on a lambert shader, then to get a perspective as if travelling around the body, i put a camera pointing down the ridged cylinder so you could see the perspective that the food would be taking

Virtual Anatomy - More Technically Improved Digital Concept Art

This concept art shows the epi pen piercing the muscle

Trying out concept art for a different initial approach to the allergic reaction and anaphylaxis

Virtual Anatomy - Drawn Storyboard Animatic with Sound

Virtual Anatomy - Storyboard

Peanut is put in mouth












Peanuts enters the mouth










The peanut enters the throat










Peanut travels down the esophagus










Mast cells attack the foreign food and releases histamines

The airway contracts making breathing

The blood vessels dilate and start to leak so blood pressure lowers

The heart beats irregularly

The epi-pen pierces into the muscle thigh

Alpha and beta receptors bind together using the epinephrine from the epi pen

It causes the blood vessels to narrow which increases blood pressure

The airway opens to ease breathing

In turn the heart becomes more regular