Bacteria are mostly harmless. Until they show up in your blood. When left untreated bacteremia will lead to sepsis, resulting in death. That’s when I knew I had to create a virtual micro demise of my own doing.
Inspired by a video from the wonderful YouTube channel Microcosmos I decided I wanted one of those ciliates swimming around a blood sample. Though in hindsight I’m not sure if any eukaryotic ciliates exist. I asked a doctor what a typical blood sample would look like under the microscope. He said he wasn’t sure anymore as most samples are automatically processed. Saving a lot of time spent on the patient. Enter the shifty online world of self-proclaimed artificial answering machines and grainy reference material. Oh well, a man does what he can.
The creative process was rather straightforward. Study text and look at reference videos for hours. Experiment, fail miserably and try again. A pathway to knowledge I highly recommend. Also this new more powerful pc with incompatible drivers I bought did not help either. But these are the trials of an (medical) animator. You just keep calm and reboot.
Some geeky details. The animation itself is mostly soft body dynamics. A lores alembic mesh deforms a hires one through a mesh object deformer. Fields and poly fx destroy the poor eukaryote. Unfortunately i could not use the Voronoi Fracture generator as the pre sliced shapes show up in the transparant texture before desintegrating (are you reading this Maxon). Avarage rendertime per frame was around 35 seconds. My new machine is cool. During renders it never heated up over 60 deg. C with an avarage enviroment temperature of 30 deg. C. Very cool compared to my toasty other system which likes it hot at 80 deg. Celcius.
No micro organisms were harmed with this 100% ai free production. No wait, that’s not true. I did generate the voice over through ElevenLabs. So that would make it 98% ai free. Tools of choice were Cinema4d X-particles and Redshift.
- 3D
- c4d
- Cinema 4d
- Gezondheid
- Humor
- Medisch
- microscopy
- Onderzoek
- Redshift
- Wetenschap
- X-particles