About WEHI-TV
WEHI-TV biomedical animators, Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno, standing with a hologram of BCL2 protein
The aim of WEHI-TV is to explain and promote the discoveries by scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research to the public, through short sequences of 3D animation.
Animation is a powerful tool for presenting ideas about science that are impossible to observe and difficult to visualise when described with words. Through 3D animation we can put the audience face-to-face with a neuron pulsing with electric messages, or inside an artery to view the ceaseless rush of blood cells, or hover above the growing knot of flesh in a tumour.
WEHI-TV actively participates in a broad range of education and mainstream media projects, through its contribution of television-quality science animations, web movies and various spin-off 3D illustrations. WEHI-TV provides all of its 3D animation sequences to external groups producing science programs for television and multimedia education. This objective is to raise public understanding and awareness through regular collaborations, while retaining quality control, ensuring the science is accurate and easily understood.
Recognition and awards
· The New Yorker “[Drew Berry’s] animations are astonishingly beautiful”, USA December 2008
· Nature journal Niche Prize, UK 2008-9
· Seed Magazine ‘Revolutionary Minds’, April 2009
· National Science Foundation “Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge” first place, USA 2006, 2008
· Emmy for DNA documentary series, USA 2005
· BAFTA award for DNA Interactive DVD, UK 2004
· Maya Master award, USA 2005
· SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, USA 2008, 2009
· SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre, USA 2003
Highlight Exhibitions and Productions
· Harold Varmus’ 'Genes and Jazz' at the Guggenheim (New York) and the Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC), USA 2008-9
· The Royal Institution of Great Britain foyer display, UK 2008-9
· Museum of Modern Art (New York) ‘Premieres’ exhibition, USA 2004-5
· Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art ‘Strange Attractors’ exhibition, China 2006
· oZone Cinema of Tomorrow Experimental Digital Media Art Festival, Pompidou Centre Paris, France 2003
· National Academy of Sciences Koshland Science Museum, USA 2004-6
· Museum of Natural History Stuttgart ‘200th birthday of Charles Darwin’ exhibition, Germany 2009
· Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Duesseldorf, Museum of Design, exhibition on nanotechnology, Germany 2006-7
· ACMI Federation Square ‘Transfigure’ exhibition, Australia 2003–2004
· International Genetics Congress2003 opening ceremony performance, Australia 2003
Contacting WEHI-TV
For more information or permission to use the animations and illustrations on this site, contact WEHI-TV. Comments or suggestions are very welcome.
WEHI-TV can be contacted:
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Phone: +61 (0)3 9345 2416
Fax: +61 (0)3 9347 0852
Post: 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
In person at 1G Royal Parade, Parkville
(Access via Entrance 1 in Royal Pde to Royal Melbourne Hospital Campus adjacent to University High School)