Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell

[William]

Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell


http://www.studiodaily.com/main/tech...ects/6850.html

[FireFox]

That is by far the most beautifull 3d production I ever have seen. Maybe not the quallity of the 3D ( is amazing anyway) but the way how they show the cell is just magnificent!

[aurora]

HOLY CRAP! From someone that does stuff kinda like what is demonstrated in that video I am speachless. That just blows me away. They nailed molecular dynamics right on the money. I'll be watching and taking notes for a long time to come from that awesome piece of work! BTW its LW!!!

[FireFox]

I find it strange that no one has a comment on this brilliant production . This really is IT people

[aurora]

Agreed, so much so I broke ranks and posted it as a full news item on CGFocus. I can not say how utterly impressed with this piece I am.

[aurora]

Great news folks, for those of you like me that want my own copy of this on my machine you can dl a qt version of this herehttp://www.xvivo.net/press/harvard_u...eo=harvard.flv

[FireFox]

This sort of animation is excellent to show in classrooms. Really ! If I had seen this last year I maybe was going to study biology now .
Are there more videos coming up?

[Bliz]

Yeah that's very, very nice work. Confusing if like me, you're not a medical student but nice none-the-less.

That walking protien is pretty mad. It reminds me of the Lots of Robots short film.

[FireFox]

You don't need to be a medical-student. We did learn a lot about the cell in class at the age of 17/18 and that was ennought to comprehend almost everything in this animation.

[Bliz]

Fair enough, I love biology and science in general but I left school at 15 and didn't get this stuff.

[Manfrog]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for all the kind words! My name is John Liebler, and I made this animation for XVIVO, where I work. I was on vacation this week, and had planned to post a link to this animation in Finished Art on Monday when I got back to work. I've been lurking in the spinquad forums for a long time, and thought it was time to come out and show something. (Proton, would it be OK for me to cross post this in Finished Art, or should we just keep this thread here?) Due to a problem with the clients, the article on StudioDaily may get pulled, but the link to the xvivo press release will remain

http://www.xvivo.net/press/harvard_u...eo=harvard.flv

If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to discuss the process. And yes, it is All Lightwave!

Thanks Again,

John

[FireFox]

Manfrog can you tell us when the next video is going to be released?

[Plakkie]

Manfrog, first of all: this is shear beauty! There is just so much in this video that I whatch it over and over to grasp all of it. Questions?! I've got hundreds. I'd like to know how you did this all in LW, it's an inspiration. Maybe you could isolate a fragment of the movie and tell (or rather, show) us how you modeled, animated and shaded that fragment? I'd love that!

Without exaggerating (my spelling sucks, so hope this is right); this is what makes 3D great: showing what we always wanted to, but never could see, and giving it an interpretation AND making it look awesome!!

Can't the BBC hire you and make a series in this style, explaining the working of cells?

Deep bow!
Plakkie

[Zafar Iqbal]

Normally I find these types of animations to be boring, but I loved this one, although I don't understand much of cells and stuff like that.

I found it to be facinating to see such a small thing walk as a biped.. awesome

[Manfrog]

Firefox, we've just begun talking about the next one, which will be about mitochondria, but we are still in the early storyboard/script phase. They would like to see it ready by Christmas, so we'll see.

Plakkie: Thanks! As to how I did all this in Lightwave, I used every trick I could! Seriously, The big hero was HD Instance. Because many of the structures seen are made of repeating units, I was able to intance in a lot of geometry at render time. For modeling I used Sean Moyer's pdb reader a lot. I also used the old Lightwave metaballs plugin (the one from version 5 or so) to make the blobby structures. Most of the surfacing had baked in radiosity (You can see a couple problems with that if you look closely). There's a few. Keep asking and I'll try to remember more.

The video posted here is condensed from an eight minute piece. The longer piece has a voiceover and labels and is actually intended as a teaching tool, whereas this edit is more about just showing off the visuals. I'll see if i can get permission to put up the full piece somewhere, if there is interest.

Thanks Again,
John