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EDITOR

Rachel Bajema

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Rachel Poarch

SOURCE BOOK EDITORIAL BOARD

Rachel Bajema Rachel Poarch William M. Andrews James Archer Kimberly Battista Alison Burke Marie Dauenheimer Jennifer Fairman Peg Gerrity Keith Kasnot Maya Shoemaker William Westwood Medical Illustration & Animation 39 is produced and distributed by Workbook Creative, Inc. for the Association of Medical Illustrators

PRESIDENT / CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Tamra Dempsey

MARKETING CONSULTANT

Cliff McIntyre

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Barbara Kuhn

BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION DIRECTOR DISTRIBUTION DIRECTOR SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING MANAGER­ ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATORS­

Special Thanks for Cover Image Cover illustration © Violet Frances.

In these dark times, the goddess Athena, with weaponized caduceus in hand, serves as a powerful symbol of wisdom, science, and medicine.

BACK COVER INSET IMAGES: ( left to right, top to bottom) Row 1 - Left, © Linda Nye; Middle, © Audra Geras Biomedical Art; Right, © Clark Medical Illustration Row 2 - Left, © Oliver Burston/Début Art; Right, © DNA Illustrations, Inc. Row 3 - Left, © Anatomy Blue; Middle, © Sebastian Kaulitski/SciePros; Right, © © Adam Questell/A KYU Design

Terri Wright Stacy Brostrom Marika Lind For information on the profession of medical illustration or any member please contact: Rachel Poarch, Executive Director Association of Medical Illustrators 201 E. Main Street, Ste. 1405 Lexington, KY 40507 email: hq@ ami.org 866-393-4264 www.ami.org For information on advertising or distribution please contact: Workbook Creative, Inc. 971 Baileyana Road Hillsborough, CA 94010 Tel: (805) 963-0439 or (800) 876-6425 hello@workbookcreative.com © 2026 Association of Medical Illustrators Printed in Canada ISBN: 978-1-883486-07-5 $ 50 USD

FACING PAGE: (left to right) © KO Studios; © 3FX Inc.; © Bryson Biomed; © Todd Buck

Medical Illustration & Animation 39 is published by the Association of Medical Illustrators. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, or stored in an information retrieval system without the prior written permission of the Association of Medical Illustrators.

The Transformative Nature of Change

The nature of change is powerful, transformative. It can feel uncomfortable, uncertain, unstable. Unwanted.

The creative market for medical art has been responding to shifting production stacks, innovative tools, and workflows at a rapid pace. The artist’s role has changed in a foundational way. Many of us have expanded our creative offerings and learned new skills.

We have reconceptualized our roles to cut across previously siloed job definitions. Designers are vibe coding, producers designing. Illustrators are harnessing the power of AI in their pre-production and conceptual phases. Animators and filmmakers are taking advantage of powerful tools to upscale work and produce more powerful and realistic particle simulations.

We are cautiously playing, FOMO stress-learning, racking up new subscription fees.

We are here, doing the work. Doing the work of remaining firmly planted and established in the market. Doing the work of marketing, keeping in contact with you, our preferred and trusted client partners. Doing the work of communicating our new skillsets and pitching creative solutions. Doing the work of allowing our work to change, allowing ourselves to change. Looking for new opportunities.

I hope you take the time to view and appreciate the work between this edition’s cover, which sets the tone for a powerful story of transformation. As we continue the work of changing together, we look forward to our next conversation. The one in which we come together to solve new problems and create something wonderful. Something authentic and interesting and true.

We look forward to a year of authentic connection and conversation, redefining the ways in which we work together and, yes, continue to change.

In Partnership, Rachel Bajema, MS, CMI, FAMI Editor

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3FX, inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

Graves, Thom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71

A KYU Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13, 30-31

Halasz, Beth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-73

Alexander & Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92-93

Helix Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19

ANATOMYBLUE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15

Hromi Biomedical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74-75

Art of Neurosurgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Illo Studios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84-85

Audra Geras Biomedical Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33

IllustrationX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56-57

Austin, Mike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

KO Studios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76-77

Bajema Studios, LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35

Lake Medical Visuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78-79

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MadMicrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21

Bollinger, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-39

NEW YORK WEST Medical Illustration Studio. . . . . . 88

BrysonBiomed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40-41

Nye, Linda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80-81

Buck, Todd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-43

O’Keefe, Laurie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82-83

Clark Medical Illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-45

Purnell, David R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Dauenheimer, Marie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46-47

Questell, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13, 30-31

Début Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48-51

Science Picture Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-23

Digital JAB 3D Multimedia Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

SciePro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25

dna illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-55

Shannon Associates LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-39, 92-93

Duran, Mica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52-53

Spijker, Karin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90-91

Fehinfei Illustration LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Thompson Medical Illustration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Foster, Craig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56-57

Thurm, Gail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92-93

Frances, Violet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58-59

Turner, Cynthia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92-93

Gentry, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60-61

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Gesek, Alan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Whitney, Jane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94-95

Graham Studios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17, 68-69

XVIVO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-27

Graham, Michele. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64-67

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The Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators (BCMI) tests medical knowledge and creative proficiency—so you don’t have to.

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Representing 150 highly selected illustrators and motion artists, many of whom have a strong area of specialty and considerable experience working on life sciences related material.

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