Medicine, visualized.
High-quality 2D and 3D animation of molecular mechanism and cell biology, checked against the primary literature, at stock-media prices. A new film every week.
New films every week, in partnership with
Short films that make mechanisms clear.
Each series follows one structure of the cell from first principles to disease. Films run about a minute, with sources on the final frame.
Every film, in full.
Click any film to watch it. New films are added every week.
Studio quality, at stock-media prices.
Specialist studios charge thousands of dollars for a minute of custom biomedical animation. We are building a library of high-quality 2D and 3D films that cost about as much as a stock clip, so lecturers, clinicians, publishers and students can use them.
Our founder, Professor Peter K. Smith, is a practising clinician who has made multimedia for medical education since 1993 and has produced more than 1,000 animation projects. That experience now guides every film in the library.
We are not taking commissions while the library grows. To use a film in your teaching, talk or publication, get in touch.
Answerable to the science
Every claim is checked against the primary literature before a frame is made. References appear on screen.
2D and 3D
Molecules, organelles and tissues in depth, with clean 2D diagrams where they explain more.
Released weekly
The library grows every week, series by series, from the mitochondrion outward.
Part of Virgil Studios
Virgil Scientific is the scientific animation studio of Virgil Studios. The laurel is the oldest mark of mastery, worn by poets and scholars, and we hold every film to it.