Art inspired by biology, created by a biologist
Laughing Mantis Studio now has an intro animation! I mainly created this for the fun of it, but also to stick in front of any timelapses, or other videos. I make.
Created and rendered in Blender.
Way back in 2005/2006 I was trying to finish up a Ph.D. in biology studying the genetics of heart development in the lab of Dr. Frank Conlon at UNC, using the frog as a model. My advisor at the time was also going up for tenure and wanted a decent animation of heart development for his presentation. Thus I convinced him to buy us a copy of Maya, with which I made the following video and started learning how to create 3D art and animations.
Test animation. My first attempt at using particles and hair. Cell obviously not realistic and organelles not to scale. Just practice.
Resolution of a DNA Holliday Junction. Made for Dr. Jeff Sekelsky at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This was only my second animation ever back in 2006.
One of my very first tutorial animations. Just playing around with Blendshapes and Caustics in Maya 7
