Romantic Anatomy Animation

So I know this title sounds a little bit strange because not too many people view anatomy as romantic but that's all a matter of how you look at it. For this animation it will be a slow paced travel through the body, viewing main organs with a focus on the beating heart. It will definitely be a struggle making this come out romantic looking, it will take a lot of work with lighting, audio, and camera movements but hopefully it ends up turning out how I see it in my head!

So, to start with I modeled a base mesh for each organ in Maya 2011.

                                                                 I started with the heart.

Then the lungs and trachea.


                                                                 
                                                                   Next was the liver.

Finally I created the stomach and intestines.



After modeling I unwrapped each object using UV Layout.

 Unwrapped heart.

Unwrapped lungs.

 Unwrapped liver.

Unwrapped stomach and small intestine.

Unwrapped large intestine.

 Next I jumped into Zbrush 4.0 for sculpting and texturing.

Right now I am finally in the process of rendering! I've rendered all of my beauty layer and currently rendering my ambient occlusion layer which is taking a good chunk of time so hopefully it will be done within the next couple of days! Here are some of the final renders for the beauty layer.

And finally the finished product! Or at least finished for now. Hope you enjoy it :]

http://vimeo.com/21380469

 Allison Vanoy