Hi all out there,

I am writing a short summary article on biological molecules etc... for my school and perhaps for the wider community.  I want to make my article exciting by incorporating scientific images. I want to make it more exciting and include images of amino acids etc... but showing each individual atom. Is there animation/image software available for science education purposes? Alternatively, is there low cost software that can help me to bring my article to life?

for example, something like this:

 

Thanks, in advance

Blender is a free open source drawing and animation software.  It is quite good, the learning curve is a bit steep but there is a whole community that uses it and lots of helpful tutorials.

Thank you Bufofrog.  I will try it out.  How is Corel Draw?

Have you sen molview or phet? Maybe build or find molecules you need and take screnshots or export? 

Note, I haven’t tested myself, I just got the links from a contact 

http://molview.org/?cid=297

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/molecule-shapes-basics/latest/molecule-shapes-basics_en.html

10 hours ago, jimmydasaint said:

Is there animation/image software available for science education purposes?

I tested Molview just for fun. I took a random compound, Aminoacetic acid, and it produced these two pictures*:

 

*) I selected representation "Van der Waals spheres" and engine "Jmol". 

Superb - I have to check this out. Thank you. Hope it is royalty free. 

Edited April 22, 20196 yr by jimmydasaint

there is some good free 3d stuff like tinkercad wich you could screenshot.

On 4/22/2019 at 10:13 AM, jimmydasaint said:

Hope it is royalty free

I'm by no means an expert in software licensing, but I checked http://molview.org/license and I find no reason to believe there are royalties (Gnu General Public License).