Schrödinger About Us – Materials Science

Schrödinger · 2024 · Solo: 3D / Motion / Live / Edit

Brief:

• Another in a series of “About” films for Schrödinger – this one about the Materials Science division, mixing real scientific models with 3D, live action and motion.

Role:

• Storyboard, design, animation, videography and edit — solo across every phase; pulled models from proprietary tools into a production pipeline.

Result:

• Delivered end-to-end as the division’s About film.

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Following the success of the initial ‘Schrödinger About Us’ video, I was tasked with creating more focused videos about each part of the company, going slightly more in-depth on different components of the business model.

Again, I took on every role in the production: storyboarding, creative look development, shooting, modeling, texturing, animating, comping, and editing the video.

This video had to drill down a bit more into the scientific concepts without losing the overall message of the company’s mission.

One of new challenges in this video was a technical one: Getting the scientific models from Schrödinger’s proprietary software packages (LiveDesign, Maestro, and PyMOL) into production oriented DCC’s such as Cinema 4D and Houdini.

We needed to present these concepts in as dynamic and engaging a method as possible and, unfortunately, the pieces of software that Schrödinger produces are geared towards scientific exploration – not visuals, so the models extremely dense and weren’t true conventional ‘geometry’.

Also, the structures coming out of the software were incredibly large, so we had to leverage some of the underlying architecture of PyMOL in order to even import it.

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