Phacoemulsification – the video!
It’s official. We have a new medical animation!!!
Now presenting Phacoemulsification!!!
It’s funny, we’ve been working on this all semester long, but only just last night did it hit me that we really have this whole awesome animation.
You may remember previous posts about this one, in particular my work with Otis, aka Simon…
Remember Simon?
I originally wrote about him here.
Well he’s come a long way what with the wrinkles and the eyebrow fur, and the subsurface scattering. And now he’s the Otis you see in our phacoemulsification video.
Really the whole thing has come such a long way, looking back just two months ago when we were at the animatic stage.
The eyes themselves were done by Josy Conklin, who handled most of the procedural animation along with Matt Cirigliano. Matt also did a good deal of the compositing of those procedural shots, along wtih Eric Small, who did a lot of the special effects, shared most of the instrument modeling with Matt, and who also took on the molecular sequence in Maya.
The only modeling I really did was that of the eye speculum, and just tweaking the pre-fab head our of Poser guy into old age. That was mostly a texturing job though. If anything I hope I didn’t wind up toning all those wrinkles down too far for all the work that went into placing them just so.
The final bump map went something like this…
And the final color map like this…
I had to do a lot of tweaking right around the eyes to avoid distortion with as close as we came in with the camera in 3DsMax. This would be the part where I started using a lot of my house guest’s skin texture in high res photographs to pump up our resolution, while maintaining a blend of aged skin images in the surrounding eye area wherever possible…
There wound up being three main After Effects renders which were then compiled using Premiere. Matt and I are really the most sound effect obsessed, so after compiling our various renders, he and I tackled sound, and also tag teamed on the various titles needed.
All in all, I think the project is a big success. Our instructor suggested this morning that we submit the piece to this summer’s AMI annual meeting in Portland. I think we will.