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SCIENTIFIC ANIMATIONS FROM RUSSELL KIGHTLEY
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RKMEDIA.NET (RKMEDIA.TV) showcases Russell Kightley's animations. Each video expands to a glorious, screen-filling UHD (4K). These videos cab be licenced for corporate networks or broadcast TV (documentaries, news, features).
Russell Kightley was drawing from about age seven. One of his earliest surviving pictures, a pencil and wash of a church, features in Yesterday Makers. He studied graphic design in the late 70s at Nene College, Northampton, after spending two years at Birmingham Dental School. In 1981, he started in traditional hospital-based medical illustration at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, using pen and ink and watercolour, well before computers became commonplace in design. Then came a long stint in university-based medical video production (including two years at Stanford University in California in the early '80s). During the mid-80s in Leicester, he used a very high-end digital paint system (the Quantel Paintbox) for video graphics. The health education videos from Leicester were used worldwide in the fight against AIDS, cancer, and heart disease.
The Paintbox introduced him to the digitising pen and tablet, and so he used a computer pen long before a mouse. In 1997 he received a Graduate Diploma in Electronic Arts from the Australian National University.
ART AWARDS
Qualia's Jungle won the E. G. Harvey Award for Australian SciFi Art 2016.
FILM AWARDS
His first was a CINE Golden Eagle in 1984 while working at Stanford. 39 more awards followed for the videos he worked on. 35 of those were for videos that he directed, including Gold at Worldfest Houston, and Silver at the British Medical Association.
GRAPHICS
Published everywhere, from Playboy to Nature. In Scientific American, New Scientist, and the BMJ. In National Geographic. On the BBC and in Reader's Digest. On the NASA site. In the Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth. In newspapers and museums, on websites, in trade shows, and as posters in schools (BioCam). You can see all of his scientific graphics and animations at scientific.pictures and prints and merchandise.
FULL BIO AT FICTION.RED
SCIENTIFIC ANIMATIONS FROM RUSSELL KIGHTLEY
RKMEDIA TELEVISION (RKMEDIA.TV)
TV@RKMEDIA.TV
RKMEDIA.NET (RKMEDIA.TV) showcases Russell Kightley's animations. Each video expands to a glorious, screen-filling UHD (4K). These videos cab be licenced for corporate networks or broadcast TV (documentaries, news, features).
Russell Kightley was drawing from about age seven. One of his earliest surviving pictures, a pencil and wash of a church, features in Yesterday Makers. He studied graphic design in the late 70s at Nene College, Northampton, after spending two years at Birmingham Dental School. In 1981, he started in traditional hospital-based medical illustration at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, using pen and ink and watercolour, well before computers became commonplace in design. Then came a long stint in university-based medical video production (including two years at Stanford University in California in the early '80s). During the mid-80s in Leicester, he used a very high-end digital paint system (the Quantel Paintbox) for video graphics. The health education videos from Leicester were used worldwide in the fight against AIDS, cancer, and heart disease.
The Paintbox introduced him to the digitising pen and tablet, and so he used a computer pen long before a mouse. In 1997 he received a Graduate Diploma in Electronic Arts from the Australian National University.
ART AWARDS
Qualia's Jungle won the E. G. Harvey Award for Australian SciFi Art 2016.
FILM AWARDS
His first was a CINE Golden Eagle in 1984 while working at Stanford. 39 more awards followed for the videos he worked on. 35 of those were for videos that he directed, including Gold at Worldfest Houston, and Silver at the British Medical Association.
GRAPHICS
Published everywhere, from Playboy to Nature. In Scientific American, New Scientist, and the BMJ. In National Geographic. On the BBC and in Reader's Digest. On the NASA site. In the Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth. In newspapers and museums, on websites, in trade shows, and as posters in schools (BioCam). You can see all of his scientific graphics and animations at scientific.pictures and prints and merchandise.
FULL BIO AT FICTION.RED