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donna cline Concept Illustrator and Storyboard Artist For Donna Cline, it was always about responding to visual images and making art. From childhood, living near the Mississippi River in Arkansas, then later in Southern California, there was a fascination with the images afforded by botany and biology, and how the structure and function of the natural world occurred. It is little wonder that an intense interest in the visual elements of the biological sciences, particularly in that of human physiology, manifested during academic years. Involvement and completion of graduate work in biomedical illustration formalized these interests, including those of cadaver dissection, and the study of the human body, from a cellular level to gross anatomy and organ systems. A visualization of the detail of structure and of function of anatomical structures required a highly detailed manner of drawing and became very useful in illustrations and designs in the film and TV industry. Truly, there was no way to predict how impactful this technical training would soon be in a budding career in entertainment. Cline was providing surgical medical illustrations for radiation oncology surgeons in Long Beach, CA, when she met some assistant directors and a Production Designer in the film industry. The Production Designer, Dan Lomino, generously allowed her to shadow him on the pilot of MacGyver and was soon able to hire her to produce lifetime achievement award