Remember 'The Hungry Microbiome'? Chris Hammang is back with another biomedical Blender video.
Chris Hammang writes:
I am delighted to present "Alzheimer's Enigma", a short biomedical animation about how plaques form in the brain of Alzheimer's disease sufferers. The video was made in close collaboration with researchers at CSIRO, Australia's largest scientific and industrial research organisation.
We used Blender for the animation and rendering and it is great for doing biomedical animation work! The particle system was used to create simple molecular diffusion animations of proteins and small molecules, to give a sense of the Brownian motion which is present at the atomic scale. The cycles render engine was used for all the scenes. One little secret about cycles is that multiple instances of the same object don't take up very much additional space on RAM, so it was easy to do all the rendering on GPU even with tens of thousands of molecules present in the scenes at the same time.
Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro were used for video compositing and editing respectively.
I hope you enjoy the video!
Thank you for watching.
Chris
