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

Virtual Anatomy - Exhibitions At The Science Museum

Glimpses of Medical History

Pre-booking not required
Duration
Suggested 30 mins
Suitable for:
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4,

The Glimpses of Medical History gallery covers the work of doctors, dentists, opticians and surgeons. Models and life-size reconstructions illustrate developments in medical practice across the centuries. Medical scenes include operating theatres, pharmacies and optician practices through time.

Use the gallery to explore the following ideas:
- Over the last 100 years, equipment used by the medical professions has improved
- Healthcare now includes preventative measures, whereas in the past it focused on cures
- Improved hygiene and sterilisation techniques increase the chances of medical successes
- More people use medical experts today than in the past.

In the gallery ask children to select one profession to study in depth. Ask them to find a display showing their chosen medical person at work - the following display cases will be most useful (the time period represented in the scene is given in brackets):

Doctor; display case no. 4 (1400s), no. 19 (1799), no. 31 (1868), no. 36 (1905), no. 41(1900).
Dentist: display case no. 22 (1930s), no.38 (1890s).
Optician: display case no. 5 (1000s), no. 25 (1930s).
Surgeon: display case no. 1 (15000-5000BC), no. 8 (1500s), no. 12 (1800), no.14 (1914-19), no. 26 (1980), no. 35 (1300), no.40 (1895).

Virtual Anatomy - Exhibitions At The Science Museum

In Future

Pre-booking not required
Adult:student ratio
1:15
Suitable for:
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Post 16,





In Future offers a tantalising glimpse of the future and invites you to say what you think about the technology that may well be common in twenty years' time.

The gallery also has three novel, multi-user games, each enabling your students and their friends to explore technologies that are already being developed – you can even vote for the ones that you’d like to see become a part of your everyday life.

But only one thing is certain about the world to come – the most surprising developments will be the ones we have yet to imagine.

Virtual Anatomy - Picture Animatic

I have done the main sequence of my animation as an animatic to show the order of how it will be created for the real animation. I have added some sound effects to get the animatic started with a background and also have added transitions which refer to the action that is going to be happening at that point in the animation. I will create a animatic from my own drawings later on to show exactly the views and how it will travel around the body showing the anaphylaxis.

Virtual Anatomy - Exhibitions At The Science Museum

Who Am I?

Pre-booking not required
Duration : Suggested 30 mins
Adult:student ratio : 1:15
Suitable for : Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Post 16

Students can try out the exciting interactives that can morph the face, making it look older or younger – and even switch their gender! Or find people who shared their surname 100 years ago and find out where their ancestors might have lived.

Virtual Anatomy - Digital Concept Art

I started this piece of concept art exactly the same as the last piece, considering the framing of the image and decided to have the split of the throat in the centre so it felt like you could follow the path of the esophagus to the left and the trachea to the right. To start I used the lasso tool to create curved triangles and added gradients so it felt like a tube that was ribbed which gave it the feeling that you were travelling into the body which is my aim. I brought this technique in until I created a circle for the split. The gradient I used was from a dark bluey-grey colour to a lighter tones of the colour. I used this because in the diagrams I have looked at they vary colour between grey and blue so I decided to combine them.

I then created the split of the throat into the esophagus and trachea and began to develop the continuation of the ribbed tube effect to either side of the split line.

After finishing the continuation of the ribbed tube effect either side of the split line I added the features inside the throat so at one side of split I added the flap that allows air through but stops food. I created this by creating a shape similar to the ones in reference images and a added the dark pink to light pink gradient I used inside of the last concept art but felt that it lacked life so i painted on top giving it more contrast and less of a fluid colouration as well as adding the muscles that open the flap. On the other side of the split I added random shapes and painted them the colour of a peanut as if it had been chewed up. After this I began to add shadows to the ribbed effect to make come to life as if it was going into the distance and give the effect of travelling through it which is what I intended.

After I had finished the shadows i still felt that the gradients used for the ribbed effect were over-powering and stopped it coming to life so I added curvature lines along the ribbed effect in many different shades of grey and blue to split up the gradient but it felt it was coming to life but was almost there.

So I began adding highlights on the built up parts of the ribbed tube as if the light from the mouth was entering and bouncing down the tube. This really brought the image to life, I felt, because it did a marvellous job of splitting up the gradient colouration in conjunction with the coloured curvature lines I added before.