DESIGN NAME: Life Portal
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Self Promotional
INSPIRATION: The artist is a certified medical illustrator working in the advertising and marketing of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Self promotional work created for clients, and prospective clients, is a chance to promote the artist's creativity, artistry and storytelling skills in visual science.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Stem cells are an amazing life-renewing mechanism of the body. Stem cells are prototypes that can transform themselves into the specific, differentiated cells on demand for cells that might be needed for repair or renewal, anywhere in the body. The artist played on this idea to imagine a future where bionics and stem cells would merge as a restorative health miracle.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: This work is a light-hearted science fiction Frankenstein fantasy that might be, in a fashion, on the horizon of future medical advancements. The work was distributed to clients on the occasion of Halloween.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project was in development for 3 weeks at the artist's studio in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, USA.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Created using Cinema 4D, a 3D modeling program, and Photoshop, on a Mac.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 17.5" x 12", 350 dpi, tiff
TAGS: medical illustration, biomedical artist, visual science, pharmaceutical advertising, biotechnology advertising
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The artist used various materials to recreate the anatomically correct 3D skull model, using different materials for the 22 skull bones in Cinema 4D, on a Mac. The artist brought the rendered digital 3D bones into Photoshop to rebuild the skull of bionic materials. The artist photographed a prop of an ocular apparatus on her skull model for reference. The rest of the digital painting was completed by hand work of drawing and painting in Photoshop using a stylus and tablet, on a Mac.
CHALLENGE: Getting the right material on the various bones visually mattered. Several materials were selected and rejected, until just the right textures and color worked well together according to their adjacencies on the individual bones.
ADDED DATE: 2019-12-08 00:37:57
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IMAGE CREDITS: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2019.
Image No. #2: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2019.
Image No. #3: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2019.
Image No. #4: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2019.
Image No. #5: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2019.
Portrait Photograph, Josef Victor Stefanchik, 2019.
Video Cynthia Turner, Life Portal, 2020.
Video Sound, Which Wire Should I Cut, Composer Jeffrey R. Whitcher, 2020.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyright belongs to Cynthia Turner, 2019.
Photograph Copyright belongs to Victor Joseph Stefanchik, 2019.
Video Copyright belongs to Cynthia Turner, 2020.
Video Sound Copyright belongs to Composer Jeffrey R. Whitcher 2020.
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