Drew Berry’s ‘Malaria Life Cycle’ part 2 added

Drew has now completed the second part of his malaria lifecycle animation. The movie describes the events in the mosquito host and can be seen in the “Showcase” section (under the ‘Viruses / Infectious Disease’ section).

Yan Liang & Gardenia González Gil movies added – 8/14/08

Four new movies have just been added to the Showcase:

2 superb chemistry animations by Yan Liang were added to the “Chemistry/Organic Synthesis” section:

- Melamine-PTCDI Self-Assembly on Si(111)-Ag Surface    
- Si(111) Surface 7×7 Reconstruction 

You can also check out more of Yan’s work (both animated and stills) on his website: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~liang050/ 

2 great movies by Gardenia Gonzalez Gil in the “Disease/Immune System” section:

- Crohn’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis

Gardenia’s website is here: http://www.livingpixels.net

Siggraph 2008

For those of you who are planning to attend this year’s Siggraph in Los Angeles, there are at least 2 events that are “musts” – both are ‘Birds of a Feather’ sessions:

Biomedical Visualization (organized by Drew Berry, WEHI)
Tuesday August 12th – L.A. Convention Center 
3 – 4:30 PM, in room 501A 

Molecular Graphics (organized by Michael Pique, Scripps)
Wednesday August 13th – L.A. Convention Center 
1:30 – 2:30 PM, in room 501A

Also, Etsuko Uno’s stunning animation “Clonal Selection Theory” (currently featured on the homepage of molecularmovies.org and otherwise to be found in the ‘Disease & Immune System’ section of the Showcase) has been selected for the animation theater – congrats Etsuko!

Drew Berry, Estsuko Uno & other movies added – 6/13/08

Additions & updates include:

- Etsuko Uno’s “Clonal Selection Theory” animation (in the ‘Disease & Immune System’ section’)

- Drew Berry’s “Golgi/ER Visualization” animation (in the ‘Translation’ section)

- Revised “Early Events in Reovirus Entry” animation by Gael McGill & Janet Iwasa now includes text commentary.

- “Dengue Virus Entry” – created as a collaboration between Digizyme (Janet Iwasa, Gaël McGill) & XVIVO (Michael Astrachan) for WGBH’s TeachersDomain.org

Rendering for Compositing tutorial now online – 6/13/08

This tutorial by Eric Keller serves as an introduction to Maya’s render layers and shows how multiple render passes (color, depth, occlusion etc) can be composited together in After Effects.

Embryo modeling now online – 5/1/08

A great tutorial by Eric Keller that introduces polygonal and subdivision surface modeling techniques.

Dictyostelium tutorial now online – 4/24/08

An ‘all-around’ tutorial (like the “Villus Capillary’ tutorial) that touches on many different aspects of Maya and is meant as a review of introductory concepts.  The tutorial is separated into multiple scenes relating to the life cycle of the ’social amoeba’ Dictyostelium… scene1: amoeba feeding, scene 2: amoeba aggregation, scene 3: slug migration, and scene 4: fruiting body formation (the latest scene is not actually part of this version yet and will be added at a later time).

Siggraph 2007

 

Here is a great snapshot (from Eddy’s camera) while we were all visiting Art Olson’s lab at the Scripps Research Institute (http://mgl.scripps.edu).
From left to right: 

Eddy Xuan (AXS3D & UToronto), David Goodsell (Scripps), Violeta Ivanova (MIT), Eric Keller (Freelance), Janet Iwasa (Harvard/MGH), Drew Berry (WEHI), Gael McGill (Harvard Medical School & Digizyme), unknown (sorry!), Graham Johnson (Scripps) and V Owen Bush (Molecularium).  Click on the picture to expand.