A behind-the-scenes look at how we created our 2013 Apoptosome Assembly animation for Cell Signaling Technologies, with step-by-step tutorials that cover key concepts including research and pre-production, construction of complete protein models from available 3D structural data as well as missing data, and compositing techniques used to avoid split-attention issues.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Finding structural data in the Protein Data Bank and using the data to
  reconstruct complex 3D models in Maya & Molecular Maya.
• Finding structural data in the Protein Data Bank and using the data to reconstruct complex 3D models in Maya & Molecular Maya.
• Dealing with incomplete or controversial scientific information
• Learning how to rig and animate multi-domain protein models
• Using compositing techniques to increase clarity and viewer’s learning  experience