alt Hacker NewsOne name you'll find associated with many of these animations is Drew Berry.
If I had these when I was in high school in the 80s I truly think I would have gone into molecular biology. They are obviously have flaws in terms of a true representation of the process, but it makes the machine much more apparent and that's always been the thing that kept it at bay for me.
More of this style of animation can be found in the WEHImovies channel on YouTube
one of the most informative moments, was when instructor broke ranks and referred to figures as "cartoons", and that reset the context for a lot of things.
figures are very sparse, for brevity. the real situation is buried in a mantle of molecules.
the animations dont quite capture what individual molecules are doing, but give snapshots of cannonical points in the process. its a very busy bunch of reaction intermediates, and resonance structures, facilitating the exchange of functionalities.
most important was the concept of a function-repair equilibrium machine, as action cycle of the machine is damaging, and requires immediate repair, in addition to the environmental onslaught of damages.
picture having to check a file for corruption every time its accessed.