This was my first attempt at creating an animated GIF. The end result was relatively simple, but I think it was sucessful! The hard part was finding a process that I thought would be within my skill set to recreate within the Photoshop timeline format. I found myself being way to ambitious, but sometimes thae best ideas are the simplest! I sourced the image for this mitosis animation from this paper:

Mitosis Through the Microscope: Advances in Seeing Inside Live Dividing Cellshttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1082177

From the abstract:

“The most visually spectacular events in the life of a cell occur when it divides. This is especially true in higher eukaryotes, where the size and geometry of cells allow the division process to be followed through a microscope with considerable clarity. In these organisms, the membrane surrounding the nucleus breaks down after the replicated DNA has condensed to form discrete chromosomes. Several new structures are then assembled to separate the chromosomes and partition the cytoplasm into two separate cells.”