PRODUCTION

Flow Cytometry Tutorials

Tutorials teach how a flow cytometer works, how scattered light and fluorescence are detected by a flow cytometer, and how the resulting data can be analyzed. Even after five years these tutorials continue to be one of the top search hits for "flow cytometry". About 1 hour. With voiceover.

Production, storyboarding, illustration, animation (lead), 3D modeling: Lydia Jablonski

Acoustic Focusing Tutorial

This video explains how acoustic focusing technology allows for more precise data at high sample introduction rates and much faster rare event detection. About 6 minutes. With voiceover.

Production, storyboard, animation, illustration:  Lydia Jablonski

TELLING STORIES

My first homemade TV is not a story of trips to Radio Shack and soldering things in the basement. No, my first homemade TV was made of cardboard, wooden dowels, and paper. Steps: 1)Draw a sequence of images on a long roll of paper and wind it around a wood dowel. 2) Cut a window out of the side of a box to serve as the TV screen. 3) Feed the roll of images across the screen to a take-up dowel and ...Voila! My first PowerPoint Slide show. With slow and jerky slide-in transitions. 

The fascination of this TV wasn't in an illusion of motion but in the Beginning, Middle and End of story-telling. Why not just create a big book of images? Because the screen holds more power. Imagine the thrill of creating your own TV content and having people just sit back and *watch* with the attention required to hold a sequence of images in memory.

Do we understand the content better this way? Sometimes yes. Sometimes side-by-side is easier to understand. The answer often comes when making a storyboard for an animation.