NEJM Quick Take Animation Summaries for Clinical Trial Research
- Dec, 10 2020
- By natalie
- Animation, Illustration
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For a few years now, I’ve been one of several in-house medical illustrators in The New England Journal of Medicine’s Graphic Art Department making short animated visual abstracts to quickly summarize clinical trial research in an engaging way. When I take on a Quick Take project, I work off a script written by our in-house fellows and develop a quick storyboard. With a plan in hand, I edit the recorded narration and create the final artwork using Adobe Illustrator. Finally, I pull it all together in After Effects, where I create the final animation. I enjoy these projects because I get to learn about new research and experiment with color schemes and iconographic depictions. Above are some sample illustrations for several Quick Take project I created, and below are links to the actual animations.
- Mass Intoxication with a Synthetic Canabinoid https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1610300
- Minocycline to Delay Onset of MS https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1608889
- Combination Therapy for AML https://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005799/full/
- Efficacy of a Potential Therapy for Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282
- A PARP Inhibitor for Ovarian Cancer https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910962
- Comparing Surgical Options for Hip Arthroplasty https://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005627/full/
- Treating Small Pox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJsVKlJC7U
- Treating Sickle Cell Anemia in African Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az11PCmYqRE