Medical Animation Tutorial: How to Create DNA in Autodesk Maya

In this tutorial we are going to look at two different ways to model a basic DNA structure in Maya using Animation Snapshot and the Twist deformer. This is the Part One of what will be a two part tutorial to animate your DNA strand. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss out on Part Two!
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[@alisakazarnovsky5738]

Thank you so much! This was extremely helpful! I'm working on a covid vaccine mRNA animation and your video helped me figure out how to model the mRNA

[@camuicheng5419]

Your tutorials are greatly worth support!

[@akimun841]

Thank you very MUCH!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@HalleckArts]

Thanks Emily, I really appreciate you!

[@MauroSanna]

Very nice video Emily, I enjoyed it a lot, thank you. About the "S" key not working at frame 20: that was because you were still in the input field of the channel box, which made you type the S rather than telling Maya to interpret it as a "Set Key" command. A middle mouse click in the viewport and then "S" on the keyboard would have worked no problems. It happens all the time to me because I forget to get out of the input fields in the channel box. :-D Also one tip for duplicating objects at a distance, without having to use the Duplicate Special tool: Select the object, duplicate it (CTRL + D), move the duplicate wherever you want it (you can also rotate and scale if you need), then pres "SHIFT + D". Maya will repeat everything you have done (transformations wise) while duplicating your object, as many times as you keep duplicating with "SHIFT + D". Though be aware that the operation will exponentially add up to the transformations (e.g. if you scaled the object by 2, the next duplicate will become 4... And so forth). I am looking forward to the next videos! Thanks again! :-)

[@EmilyMcDougallArt]

Thank you so much! This will save a lot of time duplicating! Would you mind if I shared that tip in a screenshot in Part Two of this video? I think it will be useful for people to know. Thank you for watching :)

[@MauroSanna]

Hey Emily, no problems at all, why would I? ;-) Sharing is growing, one way or the other, isn't it? Please feel free to share everything you think is useful that I wrote down, also in the future if I will write other tips, no need to ask. Thank you very much for getting back to me and, most importantly, for the good contents you provide through your video tutorials. Keep up the good work! ;-)

[@aliiraq9655]

Awesome .. thanks ..

[@Deepsingh-uv8wv]

hey Emily Holden ... hope you are doing well .... i just landed here on your channel having awesome stuff .....thanks....Keep it UP

[@jannesopanen8032]

Insanely brilliant workflows. Love it!

[@austncarsn]

Upset you don’t upload anymore. These video are so useful, I can’t thank you enough!

[@EmilyMcDougallArt]

Austin Carson I will be again soon! I’ve taken a break as I have been pregnant/looking after new baby! Hoping to be back to uploading by the summer!

[@austncarsn]

Emily McDougall Art awesome! Congrats on your new baby!

[@freddynovation]

thank you much ! easy and fast !

[@mohammadnaifalghodhaifi8806]

Thank you for your great work

[@marcusevjen6547]

Looking forward to the next video 😊

[@barnabasszakal7258]

Hi Emily, just discovered you, it was so great with the DNA! Many thanks. Would you mind to follow up with the bending, animation, strand separation directions? Cheers!

[@ytubeprashant]

Plz make a tutorial to cover all mash nodes.

[@leecaste]

For the first method you can also use Duplicate with transform but using Mash would be a better option because you have more control and you can use a curve to deform the arrays in case you don't want a perfectly straight model and you can animate that curve without creating a spline ik.

[@EmilyMcDougallArt]

Hello! Good point about duplicate with transform! Thank you for sharing. I am planning to do a part two with animation that will cover rigging it with spline IK and using turbulence to generate some natural wiggling. Using MASH is also great for creating the animation so I will definitely feature that too :)

[@leecaste]

Emily Holden cool!...waiting for part 2 🙂

[@orphydiancg7759]

Hot to create your intro motion graphic animation next maybe ? Maybe you use after effects but I've heard many times gnats even easier in 3d software.

[@marcocraamer8983]

You are amazing!

[@angelsface200]

This is awesome! Thank you so much. Just wondering - are there any jobs out there where I can do this for a living? (make medical animations using Maya) I find this very fun for some reason.

[@DIVYANGKATESIYA]

Noce video Please make the video on muscle system in maya.. Thanks

[@EmilyMcDougallArt]

Hello! Thank you for your support :) I will add that to my tutorial list and aim to work on a tutorial after I have published Part Two of this video! Thank you for the suggestion

[@dandanthecameraman5409]

2020!

[@khris5953]

where is the part 2??

[@AsifIslamAbir]

I am your big fan. I want to do work with you. I also a 3D artist. :) I need some help about blood circulation animation.

[@Scottwhittysydney]

Frustrating when you know you've followed the directions and it doesn't work