Happy thanksgiving all! Below is a poster about body tissues you probably weren’t using much today – skeletal muscle!
There was a final crit earlier this week on histology posters – I delved into the sarcomere and myofibril, the fun little network of contractile proteins within the muscle cell responsible for movement. There are still adjustments to be done (color balance, too many warms), but all in all, is nearly done.
Projects like this always serve as a good lesson for everything that is not yet known about the human body. Actin and Myosin? Their stories have been told very well, but the Z disk and M line? not nearly as easy to research. There are always more proteins and elements than you originally assume, which if nothing else, certainly keep things interesting.
Here are more finished renders of the lovely vestibulocochlear apparatus, and it’s internal endolymph (paralymph not shown) fluid system. Those black shadows c4d loves are harder to change than you’d think, even after messing with shadow and ambient occlusion colors.
Below is an editorial project for a selected journal cover – the article this image relates to was about Still’s heart murmer, fairly common in school age children. It’s a fascinating benign murmer that was likened to the sound of an Aeolian harp – this if this harmless murmer is heard in children, they can be told they have a musical heart. This author’s theory was that the blood flowing through the chordae tendinae of the right ventricle produced the characteristic pitch and humming sound.
This has been done for awhile, but I’ve only recently scanned it and comped it together in Photoshop. Occasionally I feel like breaking away from the whole medical subject area, or anything representational. I’m really interested in relationships between music and visual arts and love the concept of Kandinsky’s art and the series of nocturnes by Whistler. This painting ranks among my favorites: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. There are more and less successful ways to do abstract paintings, and Whistler nails it in this one.
Moving on, below is a painting I’m calling “Aria”. Fun with colors, composition, shapes, and movement!
I love really abstract pieces of anatomy like the vestibulocochlear apparatus! They’re so fun to sculpt. The end output will be a rotatable qtvr that shows labels, nerves, and the endolymph within the bony apparatus.
I’m working on a poster about sarcomere and myofibril architecture and function. To that end, I’ve been finding out all sorts of fun facts about specific lengths and compositions of different myofibers.
With a significant amount of pdb data, here’s round 1, more revisions and updates coming. Click for a larger view, lots of proteins that can’t be seen in the small version below.
I was playing with making lipoprotein phospholipid membranes this morning — the top is a whole and cut view of an HDL particle. Eventually these will be filled with cholesterol, triglycerides, and coated in apoproteins, and lit better. The bottom is VLDL – notice how much larger it is!
Rendered with caustics and some subsurface scattering.
whole and cut views of phospholipids that make up HDL
half of the phospholipids that encase VLDL particles
I revisited a piece from last December — issues that had not stood out to me at the time suddenly seemed really obvious. Saturation was upped, wet lights put in, color reflections added, and the terrible masking job was softened. Disregard the labels on the first one, they’re not important for this, unless of course you’re terribly curious about the anatomy of one of the cutest organs.
Click for a larger view of the after – on the default view I thought it only fair to give the two versions equal size.
Ever wondered how to perform a Gow-Gates nerve block in to numb inferior unilateral teeth? The animation below explains just this! Media: pencil, photoshop, and AfterEffects. Posted on Vimeo and in the portfolio.
Update to portfolio – a hypothetical medlegal poster, designed for the plaintiff who is suing his attacker. The story is that this unfortunate fellow suffered a nasty punch to the face, giving him a multi-fractured zygoma that needed a complex surgery, complete with metal plates.
