“Ebola in 3D” is a finalist in the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Visualization Challenge, the NSF Vizzies! You can cast your vote for People’s Choice here through November 17th. You can vote more than once! Ebola in 3D juxtaposes a real cryo-electron tomographic image of an Ebola virus-like particle, the Read more
Falconieri Visual’s principal, Veronica Falconieri, presented at the Association of Medical Illustrator’s meeting in Cleveland this past week. She told the story of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, and how it is poised to revolutionized the field of structural biology–and they seemed to like it! Here are some selected tweets: Veronica Falconieri Read more
Ready to take your animation to the next level? Veronica Falconieri, MA, and Graham Johnson, CMI, PhD will be teaching a workshop on ePMV Advanced Molecular Techniques at the 2015 Association of Medical Illustrators Conference. What is ePMV? ePMV is the embedded Python Molecular Viewer, a plugin for Maxon Cinema4D Read more
Prints of the critically recognized illustration “Neuroscape” are now available for purchase via ArtPal. This beautiful piece shows in 3D the cell types of the brain, including neurons, pyramidal neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglial cells, and blood vessels. While the neurons transmit signals (represented by glowing spots on the neuron processes) Read more
During this recent academic year, I have been working on a Master’s thesis entitled The Molecular Mechanism of HIV Entry in collaboration with the lab of Sriram Subramaniam, Ph.D., at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. I had the honor of being awarded the Alan Cole Read more
If you have never worked with an illustrator before, you may be wondering how and what kind of information and feedback you will be providing as a client. Here, I describe the major steps of an illustration workflow, using one of my portfolio pieces as an example. “The Parenting Behaviors Read more
From X to Z: Taking X-Ray CT Data from Osirix into ZBrush, AMI 2013 Vimeo channel Learn the basics of exporting bony structures from CT scans from Osirix and importing into ZBrush for mesh cleaning, sculpting, and modification. This tutorial was presented at the Association of Medical Illustrators 2013 Conference Read more