David Bolinsky

Bolinsky is an accomplished and award-winning medical illustrator and animator whose pioneering career in digital animation spans 34 years. After holding the position of Senior Medical Illustrator at the Yale School of Medicine, Bolinsky founded Advanced Imaging, Inc. (1984), the world’s first digital medical animation company and in 2000 co-founded XVIVO Scientific Animation.

Bolinsky was Medical Director of the groundbreaking, award-winning film series ‘The Inner Life of the Cell’ for Harvard’s Molecular and Cellular Biology Department. Bolinsky founded his current education-oriented company, e.mersion studios, LLC, in 2012 for client work and Emersionist, LLC for partnership projects.

A two time TED Speaker, Bolinsky is passionate about bringing the power of visual learning to science education, through advances in interactive technologies and innovations in publishing.

Major clients included global corporations such as Merck, Genentech, Novartis, and Pfizer; museums such as the Smithsonian and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry; DARPA; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and universities such as Yale, Johns Hopkins and Harvard.

Collaborating with content specialists, we travel with our clients from script to screen. We are engaged with our partners to study how students best learn information in highly complex scientific topics. Our work is tuned to the expected audience; whether for kids attending a museum or medical students learning the complex pathways to coagulation, we treat the aesthetic and scientific content with equal reverence, and always respect the viewers’ intelligence.