Animate neurons firing using Maya Mash by Emily Holden

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Written By Emily Holden
 

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In this tutorial medical animator, Emily Holden, will teach you how to animate neuronal firing using the MASH toolset and Mesh Lights with the Arnold renderer in Maya 2018 (or 2017). This is one of the classic medical animations we see of neurons firing in the brain.

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Emily Holden

Emily is a medical illustrator and animator who runs Now Medical Studios with her business partner, Annie Campbell. She has spent years working as a medical artist and eLearning developer for multiple higher educational establishments and commercial clients within the UK.

Emily has developed a YouTube channel creating her own medical animation tutorials, which has gained her a large audience following. This has lead to her invitation and collaboration with LinkedIn Learning, where she now has her own course dedicated to medical animation, “The Fundamentals of Medical Animation”.

She co-founded and is an active contributor of Learn Medical Art, a channel dedicated to creating and sharing tutorials, articles and resources from the field.

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