Veronica Falconieri, the creative director behind Falconieri Visuals, received her certification in medical illustration (CMI) from the Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators (BCMI) this year. Certified Medical Illustrators have met credentialing requirements for business, ethics, and science knowledge as well as drawing skills. The certification term lasts for 5 Read more…
Cellular ZBrush Techniques PDF Handout In this tutorial, learn to sculpt cellular subjects including a salivary acinus, a neuron, a blastula, and a textured tumor using a wide range of ZBrush features, including InsertMesh, NanoMesh, FiberMesh, custom Alphas, and ZSketch. Presented at the Association of Medical Illustrators 2016 Conference in Read more…
Proteins and Cancer In every cell in the human body, there are countless tiny molecules, called proteins, that work together to allow the cell to harvest energy, move, reproduce, and interact. In cancer cells, some proteins can malfunction or be functioning out of control, causing the cells to grow abnormally Read more…
Advanced ePMV Techniques, co-workshop with Graham Johnson Overview, examples, documentation, and downloads This workshop was presented at the Association of Medical Illustrators 2015 Conference in Cleveland, OH. Push your modeling and animation skills to the next level! Our half-day workshop will incorporate ePMV (the embedded Python Molecular Viewer) into advanced Read more…
“Ebola in 3D” is a finalist in the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Visualization Challenge, the NSF Vizzies! You can cast your vote for People’s Choice here through November 17th. You can vote more than once! Ebola in 3D juxtaposes a real cryo-electron tomographic image of an Ebola virus-like particle, the Read more…
Falconieri Visual’s principal, Veronica Falconieri, presented at the Association of Medical Illustrator’s meeting in Cleveland this past week. She told the story of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, and how it is poised to revolutionized the field of structural biology–and they seemed to like it! Here are some selected tweets: Veronica Falconieri Read more…
Ready to take your animation to the next level? Veronica Falconieri, MA, and Graham Johnson, CMI, PhD will be teaching a workshop on ePMV Advanced Molecular Techniques at the 2015 Association of Medical Illustrators Conference. What is ePMV? ePMV is the embedded Python Molecular Viewer, a plugin for Maxon Cinema4D Read more…
Prints of the critically recognized illustration “Neuroscape” are now available for purchase via ArtPal. This beautiful piece shows in 3D the cell types of the brain, including neurons, pyramidal neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglial cells, and blood vessels. While the neurons transmit signals (represented by glowing spots on the neuron processes) Read more…
During this recent academic year, I have been working on a Master’s thesis entitled The Molecular Mechanism of HIV Entry in collaboration with the lab of Sriram Subramaniam, Ph.D., at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. I had the honor of being awarded the Alan Cole Read more…
If you have never worked with an illustrator before, you may be wondering how and what kind of information and feedback you will be providing as a client. Here, I describe the major steps of an illustration workflow, using one of my portfolio pieces as an example. “The Parenting Behaviors Read more…