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Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Informative Animation
About the Project
The polycystic kidney project required modeling and texturing a polycystic kidney from scratch within Zbrush. Afterward, it was imported into Keyshot, where a turn table animation was rendered out in still frames. These in turn were imported into Adobe After Effects, where final touches- including an introductory screen, informational text and labels- were added. The additional text within the animation helped transform the kidney model into a small resource on Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).
ZBrush
The first step was constructing a kidney bean shape from a ZSphere.
Once the basic kidney shape was completed, it was duplicated to create another subtool layer, in which it’s scaled down underneath the original model. That was meant for building up cysts.
Keyshot
Once the kidney model was uploaded into Keyshot, there was room for play with color and shadowing, including going into Photoshop to edit the texture map.
Afterward, still frames were rendered for a turntable animation, before being loaded into Adobe After Effects for the final animation.
After Effects
For the final step to the PKD project, a short informative clip was created in After Effects. This included information on: what is PKD? And what are the symptoms?
Final Animation
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