Allison's World of 3D: 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.