We needed to create an engaging video to visualize the results of research by one of the university's departments.

Project Requirements

• Scientific and eye-catching animation.
• Audience: Scientists and students.
• 75 seconds of animation.
• The deadline is only 5 weeks.

Project Overview

The animation consisted of 9 scenes. It started from the cell membrane and the formation of a lipid vesicle around the DNA template, then we see the formation of an RNA origami(synthetic Car or TCR). It travels to the vesicle surface and binds to the MHC of the cancer cell, which causes the release of toxin through the pore and the death of cancer cell. We see the formation of the DNA library and how its cancer treatment ability improves.

The Challenge

The project is interesting and complex, but there was very little time for R&D and variations. The project includes such complex animations as DNA bending, vesicle(folding) formation, and cancer cell destruction.

The Approach & Solution

Using a cloner and some advanced techniques, I created a 3D model of DNA that could be easily modified and used a deformer to wrap it around the spline to animate it. I have my old setup for vesicle(folding) formation but it wasn't good enough for the level of animation I wanted to achieve, so I had to create it from scratch using many pose morph steps and cloner.The destruction of a cancer cell is a scene I've been meaning to do for a long time. With softbody\rope simulations and "secret" techniques I achieved the result of large production studios, but the client decided to simplify this animation=) so you can only see it in this case study.

The Results