TVASurg Process: 3D Rendering

October 29, 2021Process

At TVASurg we love making engaging educational videos for teaching surgery. All members of our production team are graduates of the esteemed Biomedical Communications program at the University of Toronto–Mississauga, where we received focused training on communicating topics in life science with the same techniques used in the 3D animation industry. These include modelling, rigging, … Read More

AMI Tech Talk: Photogrammetry for surgery

July 30, 2021Conferences, News, Process, Research, Tutorial

The annual Association of Medical Illustrators meeting has just wrapped up, and this year TVASurg production team members gave TWO presentations! What follows is a summary of the “tech talk” Senior Biomedical Communicator Paul Kelly gave on using the software 3DFlow Zephyr for making photogrammetry-based 3D models for surgical subjects. https://youtu.be/tnGmrtAtYT4

TVASurg Process : ALT perforator flap case-study

July 15, 2021Process

With every project we work on together as a team, we learn new techniques for creating our educational content, and continuously refine our production process. We recently completed an anterolateral thigh perforator flap harvest technique for our ENT section of videos. We’d like to use this case study example to give an overview of our … Read More

Surgical Video Editing with DaVinci Resolve

May 26, 2021Process, Tutorial

Adobe Premiere Pro used to be our go-to video editing software, but for the past two years, we have started experimenting with DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design. We find the interface to be quite intuitive. This software is packed with powerful features and it’s FREE! The free version contains most of the functions we need … Read More