Date: May 2023
Purpose: To teach children who have recently been diagnosed with hemophilia about their condition, how to recognize bleeds, and how to best take care of themselves. Created in conjunction with Cristina Tarango, MD, Lisa Littner, MPH, MSW, LISW-S, CHES, Cheryl Dahling, BS, CCLS II, Julie Doyle, BSN, RN, CPN, and Julie Hendrickson, BSN, RN, CPN.
Technology: Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Nuke, Vray
Team: Julia Bendon (animator), Matt Nelson (animator), Jeffrey Cimprich (animator), Michael Gasaway (animator), Tyra Victor (illustrator), Alexander Taylor (music and sound)
Date: August 2022
Purpose: Created in conjunction with Dr. Amanda Schondelmeyer to teach parents about the importance and misconceptions of monitor use in the hospital and at home.
Technology: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop
Team: Julia Bendon (animator), Kevin Necessary (illustrator)
Date: January 2021
Purpose: Created in conjunction with Dr. Foo-Yung Lim in order to demonstrate his research and surgical technique for performing Fetoscopic Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion (FETO)
Technology: Autodesk Maya, Nuke
Team: Julia Bendon (animator), Cat Musgrove (animator), Jeffrey Cimprich (compositing and graphics)
Date: May 2021
Purpose: To teach viewers about dialogic reading: a technique for reading with children that can optimize brain development, learning, and reading skills. Commissioned by Dr. John Hutton.
Technology: Adobe After Effects
Animator: Julia Bendon
Illustrator: Doug Cenko
Date: May 2021
Purpose: Created in conjunction with Dr. John Hutton’s literary series “SHARE this book”. This two part animation helps teach parents techniques for reading to children in order to optimize learning and development. This is the second animation in the series.
Technology: Adobe After Effects
Animator: Julia Bendon
Illustrator: Christina Brown
Link to first animation in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCDMKSZwrps
More information on SHARE step method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuQhnbrwutw
Child-Directed Speech (SHARE/STEP Method) | Step 1
Date: January 2022
Purpose: Contracted by Dr. Jorge Bezerra at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to create an animated abstract to accompany his research publication “Maternal regulation of biliary disease in neonates via gut microbial metabolites” in the journal Nature.
Link to animation through Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: https://scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/boosting-the-maternal-microbiome-sharply-reduces-biliary-atresia-risk-in-early-stage-study/
Link to journal publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27689-4
Technology: Adobe After Effects; Adobe Illustrator
Date: February 2019
Purpose: Master’s project research; Created in conjunction with Dr. Timothy Koh’s research on macrophage phenotypes in wound repair
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, V-Ray
Date: April 2019
Purpose: Showcase the Monopty Bard breast biopsy device.
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, V-Ray
Team: Julia Bendon (Modeling, Compositing, Post-Production, Alex Cook (Modeling, Pre-Production), Norman Luo (Modeling, Production, Rendering)
Date: May 2019
Purpose: Commissioned to create an animation for the Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute’s homepage
Link to animation on homepage: Mass General Research Institute
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects
Date: December 2018
Purpose: Animation explaining the role of sex differences in microRNA.
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Media Encoder, Vray, PFlow
Date: February 2019
Technology: Adobe After Effects, Red Giant
Date: October 2018
Purpose: To use PFlow particle systems
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, Arnold
Date: July 2018
Purpose: To use MassFX technology
Technology: Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe After Effects
Lighting Test Render
Glass Effect Test Render
3D Model Wireframe