Research Outcome: The Catalytic Reaction of hAOX1
Animatics
Animatics are essential to the planning and quality testing of a developing animation. These following animatics are a few samples rendered out in the process of developing the final animation. They each provided learning opportunities and helped established the motion design of the animation as the creative project progressed.
Figure 142: Hydrogen Bond
This animatic visualises the changes to the electron probability distributions of a single hydrogen as it forms a bond.
Figure 147: 4HNE transition to 4HNA
To animate the transition between 4HNE and 4HNA the researcher used a blend shape on two NURB curves and programmed the position of each atom to the vertices on the curves. The NURB curve was left in the rendered scene to demonstrate the transition between the two molecules.
Figure 148: Brownian Motion Test
Brownian motion and atomic jiggle was applied to atoms, molecules and enzymes within this research by using the motion FX noise tool in Houdini. As seen in this animatic, the variables of this noise had to be tested on each molecule in case one atom appeared too excited. In this animatic one hydrogen atom had to be adjusted so it didn’t fly off and away from it’s molecule.