Medical Video Animation & Science Illustration
by John Liebler

Art of the Cell is a medical video animation company and scientific stock illustration company led by John Liebler, best know for his work as lead animator of “The Inner Life of the Cell”, a world-famous medical video created for Harvard Biovisions, that was “perhaps the pivotal moment for molecular animations…” ~ The New York Times, Science Times.

Demo Reel

Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. Here is our latest 3D medical demo reel, including clips from many of the projects we’ve worked on, such as “Biology:How Life Works”, and “The Inner Life of the Cell”. We hope that you enjoy this two and a half minute tour of the Art of the Cell.

“The Inner Life of the Cell” Video

“Created over a two-year period by a pair of Harvard scientists and a single 3D animator, John Liebler, “The Inner Life of the Cell” established a dramatic, cinematic look for educational scientific visualizations.”

Originally planned as a classroom tool, Inner Life takes the viewer through many of the inner workings of a leukocyte (or white blood cell) showing many of the cellular structures and organelles along the way. I spent about a year and a half creating about eight and a half minutes of animation under the guidance of Dr. Robert Lue and Dr. Alain Viel. As the footage was rendered, we started to get a feeling that this was something special.

When it was finished, I thought that the visuals could stand on their own to show the wonder of the cellular landscape, even without labels or explanation. So I made the three minute edit, and asked Matt Berky (Massive Productions) to set it to music. I submitted it to the 2006 Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, where it was shown in the Electronic Theater.

It ended up on Youtube… And took on a life of its own.

~ John Liebler