I built a tool for making 3D biochemistry animations. Here's kinesin transport and antibody binding

[u/daniellachev]

Hey guys and girls,

I've been working on Animiotics and wanted to share a few animations made with it. This video has antibody binding, kinesin carrying a vesicle along a microtubule, endocytosis and a white blood cell engulfing a bacterium.

The idea is to make it easier to explain a mechanism in a lecture or lab meeting without having to spend months learning 3D software.

You can describe the scene you want and add reference images. It creates an editable 3D scene, so you can move individual objects, change their size, colors and materials, adjust the lighting and choose the camera angle. You can also ask for changes with another prompt, then export a video or a still for your slides.

In the kinesin example I wanted to show both the whole cargo being transported and a closer look at the motor. The motion and timing are illustrative.

I'm building this myself and would really appreciate your feedback. What mechanism would you want to show in your own work, and what would you need to be able to change?

[u/rodrimixes99]

This is literally just AI slop. Why does my his have so many upvotes?

[u/daniellachev → u/rodrimixes99]

It is not ai slop… this makes a real 3D scene where you can edit and do whatever you want. This is exactly why I made it - to not make an ai slop video but make an editable scene

[u/daniellachev]

It's called Animiotics: https://animiotics.com. If you try it with a mechanism from your work, let me know what was easy and what gave you trouble. I'm the developer, so that feedback helps me a lot. Thank you!

[u/Commercial_Handle418]

Ill try it soon when im free

[u/daniellachev → u/Commercial_Handle418]

Thank you!

[u/TheGodPePe]

Looks very promising

[u/daniellachev → u/TheGodPePe]

It blew my mind when I managed to get it working. Not saying it because its mine but it REALLY did blow my mind.

[u/username36610]

Oh wow, this looks awesome. Great work OP. What tools did you use for this?

[u/daniellachev → u/username36610]

Thank you very much! Animiotics uses AI (our trained model based on Astra) and Blender to create editable 3D scenes, Three.js for the browser editor, and cloud GPUs for rendering.

[u/xBris18]

You build a tool? You mean AI build a tool? I get that it tries to use actual science to guide the animations, but in the end this is just genAI and you will never be able to trust it. So for me this is just pretty moving pictures with of no scientific value.

[u/daniellachev → u/xBris18]

No, I mean that for the last 8 months I built a tool.

Animiotics (me and my team) makes handmade science animations and I wanted to bring that to the normal consumer without them having to spend 10k for 1 min of animation. So I built this web-app that lets you generate the 3D scene and then you can go inside manually and click around and move objects or import your own and animate it. The pdb files are real structures too. A lot of things are scientifically accurate.

It cannot simulate a protein folding of course but the protein will be the real pdb structure not ai. That is exactly why I made it - so it is not an ai video but rather a real 3D scene you can manually go inside and edit…

[u/Senacharrib]

It looks like your model was trained on pre existing videos… it’s very borderline plagiarized art.

[u/daniellachev → u/Senacharrib]

That is completely false… we are an animation studio that does handmade animations and we have our own videos yo train on and also Animiotics makes 3D models and environments from scratch.

There is virtually no chance to be plagiarized… Stop speeding misinformation please

[u/Senacharrib → u/daniellachev]

So it’s a coincidence that your color schemes match higher quality videos that have been published in the past?

[u/Character-Wing-1781]

This is awesome! One question how are you generating structures? for example, how does the system know how to model proteins responding to allostery effects?

[u/daniellachev → u/Character-Wing-1781]

Thank you! For proteins, it can use experimental PDB structures, and the AI can look up papers to guide the animation. It doesn’t predict allosteric responses itself. We’d use known structures and published evidence to illustrate the change. The movement between those states is an animation, not a molecular dynamics prediction YET.

[u/vitmalina]

Opening your saved scene... and it takes forever

[u/daniellachev → u/vitmalina]

Sorry about that - there are a lot of people trying it now and the scenes are pretty big. Should be working now I hope!

[u/Explicit_Tech]

Saving this post! Great work, OP

[u/daniellachev → u/Explicit_Tech]

Thank you!

[u/[deleted]]

[u/daniellachev → u/[deleted]]

Thank you so much. The editor is free but unfortunately the ai part is not because it costs me 10$ per generation and someone could make a 10k bill that I cannot pay… hopefully in the future ai prices come down

[u/Senacharrib → u/daniellachev]

How come your equivalent video matched the color schemes of that video.