QUINTESSENZ – medical visualization
Oral hygiene and heart attacks
For a series of three explanatory medical animations called Cell Communication – Oral Health commissioned by the Quintessenz Verlag, I was asked by the Berlin-based agency interactive-systems to support them with the production. In the case of this project, it was our assignment to show why neglecting oral hygiene can lead to increased chance for heart attacks or even diabetes and how exactly this happens in the human body. Here you can see the trailer for the fifteen minute long, full-CGI production.
First of all, my assignment was to handle the opener – a look onto a beating heart, framed by the two lobes of the lung. The realistic look then changes continuously to a X-ray view, to reveal a beginning blockage in one of the heart’s arteries – the first sign of a cardiac arrest.
The film was internationally a great success with 3000 people watching the 2015 premiere in London. If you are interested in seeing the production in its full length, you can do so here.
Dissolving tissue
After my work on the intro was done, I put my attention to some other consequences of these diseases, my client had no solution visualizing so far.
In one of the affected arteries, the disease results in dissolving tissue. For the fluid-simulation of the liquefaction, I made use of the fantastic ICE + Lagoa system of Autodesk Softimage, which was way ahead of the curve during its time.
Alien worlds
One of the great pleasures of working on medical visualizations and explainer videos, is that you get to create alien worlds that can look like something out of a science-fiction movie.
I had a great time while look-developing these interesting protein structures and all the other little inhabitants of the human body.
CLIENT
DATE
- 01/04/2015
TOOLS
Autodesk Softimage
Autodesk Mudbox
TASKS
- AnimationModeling/SculptingShading/LightingTexturingVFX
CREDITS
interActive systems mbH
compositing / production
