Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Cellular Respiration Animation

I am working in a group with the very awesome Cody Linjer... and Steven Thompson. The three of us are going to create an animation depicting the process of cellular respiration. We will write and record the voiceovers ourselves, as well as plan out and animate it using photoshop and most likely iMovie (as none of us know how to make a flash animation, and we haven’t got the time to learn). The finished animation is projected to be between 3 and 5 minutes long, and will be posted on youtube, where the link will be forwarded to the whole Biology department, and all the bio teacher’s we have had, asking for feed back, and for them to pass it on.

For now we are all just researching cellular metabolism, and trying to gather ideas on how we want to present this. Cody knows her way around photoshop, but earlier, I gave a crash course on photoshop and imovie to Steven, so he can help with the grunt work. We made a seven second loop of a potassium ion entering a cell with the help of a protein pump. It took us 45 minutes. I am looking into better software I may have at home to eliminate the need for about half the stills.

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