At my current job I don’t get to do much explaining with my graphics. At my last job that is all I did. This assignment let me delve back into some of those skills. These graphics were created for a spec website my station is currently trying to find a sponsor for. San Antonio has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country, and my station thought a website where we tell people about diabetes would be a good idea. I agree.

In retrospect I spent more time on these than I should have, but after spending 4 years at Knight Ridder/ Tribune ,sitting next to guys who do these kinds of graphics so well, the bar in my mind was set pretty high. I was given some graphics from other medical sites as references. I’m not bragging, but I think these came out better visually. I did all of the modeling for these except for the torso skeleton and the heart further down the page. I turned these out in about 4 KSAT days. At a job a where this was my only assignment, it would have been 2 days or less.

Whenever I do medical graphics I think about Peter Kohama. He was the guy in my old department who always did excellent medical animations. He actually read medical journals and could probably operate on someone if he had to.  I always wonder, “Would Dr. Kohama approve?” I guess he was my Yoda for medical graphics.

One more. Like I said, I did not model the heart. Someday maybe I’ll model a heart, but if you have a great one in your model library there isn’t any reason to. This assignment let me make a kidney, a stomach, a pancreas, and some blood vessels. Those I didn’t have. Look on turbosquid.com in the near future. I’m selling these guys.