Picodesic is me, Geoff Bolen. I'm a 3D animator and designer, with a background in life sciences, fascinated by all things technical and biological. I create accurate, cinematic animations for complex biomedical concepts.
After a degree in economics and business, I went straight into biotech - operating DNA synthesis machines and selling customized sequences to research facilities across the northeast. This led me back to school again, taking undergraduate and graduate courses at one of the country's longest running evolutionary biology departments, intending to apply to a graduate program*. While working in a yeast genomics lab, I realized that my appreciation for the aesthetics and the story of what I was researching were more profound to me than the experiment results. I then entered and won a film competition where I fashioned various types of garbage bags into penguin costumes on willing undergrads.
Maybe a decade later, having worked many years a film studio and developing a healthy relationship with 3D animation, I realized I could actually create something like the immersive, world-expanding Inner Life of the Cell animations that inspired me years ago on the projector. So I took those skills from the studio—crafting highly technical and cinematic animations, visual effects, and motion design—into the challenging, evolving and illuminating worlds of biomedical animation and visualization.
Feel free to contact me at geoff@picodesic.com for commercial project inquiries, technical questions, or even to set up a quick call or meeting if you're in the Southern New Hampshire/Greater Boston area.
*I recall being particularly interested in the evolution of immunity in sea sponges at the time. Interestingly, they contain rudimentary elements of both innate and adaptive immune systems, including a basic ability to recognize self vs. non-self, and even display some signs of memory towards non-self exposure. Keep in mind, these are things you can buy at the pharmacy and keep in the bath.