We are pleased to acknowledge the exceptional contributions of our summer intern, Yu-Wen Jan, a Master of Science candidate in Biomedical Communications at the University of Toronto. Over the summer, Yu-Wen produced the Three-Part Patient Education Video Series on Liver Resection Surgery, delivering high-quality work under a tight deadline. Her talents have consistently impressed us, … Read More
The Association of Medical Illustrators 2024 annual conference just took place in Rochester NY, USA. TVASurg team member Paul Kelly, and host of the Medical Illustration Podcast attended, and presented a tech showcase on using the node-based compositing system of DaVinci Resolve. He also made a podcast about the conference!: Medical Illustration Podcast · Report on AMI … Read More
In this post and accompanying video, TVASurg production member Paul Kelly will show how you can use DaVinci Resolve for animation using the node-based compositing part of the software, Fusion. We’ve used DaVinci Resolve for video editing at TVASurg for several years now, and have utilized Fusion for compositing on several recent animations such as … Read More
We recently attended the American Association of Anatomy’s2024 Anatomy Connected conference held this year in Toronto. TVASurg team members Joy Qu and Lesia Szyca presented with other medical illustration professionals at the Association of Medical Illustrators-sponsored group session “Design Thinking and Visual Communication through the Lens of the Medical Illustrator”. TVASurg team member Paul Kelly, … Read More
In June, TVASurg production members Joy and Lesia had the opportunity to attend VidCon in Anaheim, California to see what’s new in the world of social media, gain insights into the future of digital content, and connect with other digital creators. This three-day conference, June 21- 24, 2023, hosted featured talks and panels from industry … Read More
In April, TVASurg team members were invited to showcase some of our experimental VR modules at the annual LIVE it UP! fundraiser in Toronto.
Along with our editors and collaborators, the TVASurg team has always strived to disseminate and share our content to national and international medical conferences, in the form of ePosters, video case submissions, as well as invited lectures from our editors. At this year’s annual meeting of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), we had the … Read More
Life has returned to a “new normal” since our last Demo Reel in 2020. This time around we are happy to be including several new patient education sites, new additions to our ENT and laparoscopic chapters, and 2 new atlas chapters in our repertoire of surgical education projects. We have also begun to release some … Read More
The Toronto Video Atlas of Surgery (TVASurg) launched its first video 11 years ago in November of 2011. For this month’s blog we’d like to report on the past decade of generating well over 100 3D animation-enhanced surgical teaching videos! Let’s begin with some big numbers on our activities and production. To date we have … Read More
As we look over our long list of surgeries filmed, animations produced, and surgical chapters added to our atlas, we are saddened to see another long list of data points–the number of copyright strikes we have had to submit to YouTube for users who have taken our content and posted it to their own channels … Read More