Jean-Francois Podevin: Animation

Jean-Francois Podevin illustrated and animated a festive snow globe depicting Purdue University as a winter wonderland.

Jean-Francois Podevin was commissioned by The Washington Post to create an illustration for their article “Meet the scientists teaching AI to police human speech“.  He illustrated the statue of the (Venus de Milo) text with words from all the world languages. See more of Jean-Francois Podevin’s work here.

Jean-Francois Podevin was commissioned by Deloitte Insight to create the cover illustration for the article, “The future of cloud-enabled work infrastructure, or making virtual business infrastructure work.” See more of Jean-Francois Podevin’s work here.  

Jean-Francois Podevin was commissioned by Cerebrum to illustrate the cover and opening illustrations for their Fall 2020 issue titled, “Neuroscience Expansion.” For the cover, Jean-Francois illustrated the expansion of neuroscience around the globe in a Renaissance style to highlight the beginning of a new era in neuroscience. His opening illustration represents...

Jean-Francois Podevin was commissioned by Education Next to illustrate the cover and an interior image for their Winter 2021 issue, titled, “How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading.” See more of Jean-Francois Podevin’s work here.

Jean-Francois Podevin illustrated the cover of The New York Times Real Estate section titled, “Covid pushes Real estate into the Future,” and the article, “Real Estate Transactions Go Virtual.” See more of Jean-Francois Podevin’s work here. Read The New York Times article here.

Jean Francois Podevin created an illustration for Cerebrum about the University of Chicago’s two research programs in cognitive science, which are trying to find the location of Consciousness in the brain. Each program believes to have the answer: one claims that it is located in the back of the brain while the...

Jean-Francois Podevin illustrated a mural about quantum mechanics for Princeton University. He created a metaphorical representation of two teacups pouring themselves in and out simultaneously to illustrate “quantum entanglement.” He drew inspiration from Alice and Wonderland, saying, “Making sense of quantum mechanics is like plunging into a Carrollian world of...

Jean-Francois Podevin illustrated the cover and opener illustrations for MUSC’s medical magazine Progress Notes Spring 2020 issue. This issue of Progress Notes looks into how physicians are using artificial intelligence to predict and prevent seizures. See more of Jean-Francois’ work here.

Jean Francois Podevin created a series of satirical photo illustrations for the Hour Detroit’s article, “The New Age Take on Debate Club.” This piece dissects the intellectual common ground that high school and college students are finding at the Ethics Bowl. See more of Jean Francois’ work here.

Illustrating Einstein’dream of a grand unified theory : J.F. Podevin created these three illustrations for Catherine Zandonella, editor of  Princeton University Magazine. The goal was to create a single image that connected the large scale of the Universe to the small scale of Quantum particles. Both paradigms shared an  M.C. Escher look-alike...

Jean-Francois Podevin was asked by Minh Uong, art director for The New York Times Sunday Business section, to create an illustration and GIF animation for the article, “Hey A.I., Let’s Ponder Earthquakes“, which discusses how A.I. techniques are aiding scientists in analyzing massive amounts of data. This could greatly improve...

J.F. Podevin | Client:  Johns Hopkins Science Magazine | Description: J.F. Podevin has illustrated this cover image for Kathryn Vitarelli of Johns Hopkins Science Magazine for a story about Dark matter and Dark Energy by astrophysicist Douglas Birch titled “What Is Out there?”. To see more of Podevin’s work, click here.  

Client: Deloitte | Description: An article explaining an aspect of robotics where bees lead robots to make honey.