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Post With The Most 24/02/2013



This month's edition of the Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation Post With The Most has me licking my lips like a kid before the Pick 'n' Mix.  It's wall-to-wall eye candy in here!  I love my job sometimes; in what other occupation would it be considered normal to discuss with total seriousness how many eyes/mouths/tentacles is 'too many' when designing a monster or the technical challenge of making a penguin appear just 'a little more gay' or the cultural legacy of the vagina dentata and how it might relate to the design of the harpies from Dante's Inferno?  Honestly, February's PWTM quite closely resembles a family pack of Haribo, what with all the rainbow-coloured faux-naif critters (though its not without some welcome sour notes as injected by the likes of nightmarish insectoid typewriters and those scabrous bird girls!).  We've rubber chickens, wide-eyed eskimos, bespectacled 'dream-cleaners', a garrulous old lady whose false teeth have a life of their own, grumpy chefs, disapproving penguins,  Lithuanian trees, a freckle-faced heroine in over-sized boots armed with a frying pan... It's quite a list - and hardly exhaustive!

CGAA year one have, as of last Friday, completed their From Script to Screen project - a hugely challenging and multi-layered unit requiring them to first write their first original script for a one minute animated short, and then pre-produce it via storyboarding, character and environment design, sound design, animatics and Maya pre-visualisations.  I'll be sharing highlights from their From Script to Screen submission in the next edition of the PWTM - so until then, here's a sneak peek at year one's production drawings, storyboards and character designs.

Lucy Yelding - Gie






Megan Howett - Shelf Life




Sam Niemczyk - The Two Chefs Of Tonga Island







Shan Mason - Caspidia



Emily Clarkson - Roped In



Jake Bryant - The Interstellar Complex





George Hind - Dreaming Stars




Nadia Yadallee - Mini Cookie Cupcakes




CGAA Year 2 are knee-deep in their Adaptation unit - which sees them challenged to derive imaginative CGI responses from existing texts, materials or ideas.  Adaptation always marks a change of emphasis in the CGAA calendar, as students become more autonomous, more specialised, and work becomes more personal.  Risks are encouraged, as are creative, blended methodologies, as students seek to develop innovative approaches to the making of memorable cg assets, sets and experiences.  This year, the breadth and depth of student projects is exciting, encompassing everything from classic literature and Native American mythology to children's drawings and first person testimonials.  As per normal, all you need do is click on a student's name to visit their respective blogs for more information about their projects.  In the meantime, feast your eyes on this miscellany of works-in-progress...

Ernesta Baniulyte - Metamorphoses 

Adrián Alemany - The Other Gods






Nat Urwin - 'Winnie'






Tom Farrington - Phil O'Grimm, Vernon McCobble & Lenny Nightingale






Sammy Butler - 'Winter' from 'How Glooskap Caught The Summer' 






Chrissie Peters - 'Plop' from The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark



Joey Ku - Donug, Beeba, Afay, Offie & De-Dak (& friends!)




The Final 5








Steven Payne - Making Plans For Nigel




Gabriel Burokas - Egle, The Queen Of Serpents





Urvashi Lele - How Krishna Got The Moon




Anita Gill - Calypso's Island (thumbnails)




Alice Druzga - 'Tiffany' from The Wee Free Men




Lydia Caplan - Twenty To Nine




In CGAA year 3, it's major project time.  Yes, the dissertation is done and dusted and now all effort and attention is being paid to the final push.  These are the projects the fat lady sings about, our third years' last hurrah before breaking orbit.  With projects ranging from child-friendly nocturnal moppets, hellish harpies and full-blown saga-centric fantasy to abstract worlds and projection mapping hocus-pocus it's another exciting crop of works-in-progress.

Sam Tremain & Domantas@ Bestia Designs - The Harpies (creature design)






Max Rogers - Eskimo Boy (character design)




Molly Bolder - The Dream Cleaners (Character design)



Andriana Laskari & Dayle Sanders @ Mango Mecury - Kinnaree




Hemmy's walk-cycle (wip)




Alex Zepherin - Anima character design & concept art







Lyn-Dae Stewart - Rhea Monroe (character design)




Ryan Leitao - Projection Mapping tests




Aidan Codd -  Inventions imagined by Jean-Marc Côté - Pre-viz





Jonathan Pearmain - The Old Kingdom (storyboard wip)




The New Designers people have released their 'Best of 2012' Showreel in which CGAA's exhibition stand makes a number of appearances - just watch those zoetropes spin!  This short film does capture the excitement of the event and it's continuing importance in terms of providing an established and highly-regarded platform for new design talent.




The Final Word...

"You are capable of more than you know.  Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high.  Behave honorably.  Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.  Persist!  The world needs all you can give." E. O. Wilson


Comments

  1. Woowwww...This could be the most exciting PWTM I've seen in a while! Amazing stuff here everyone, nice work! :D

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  2. Congratulations everyone! : D!
    Also..The Final Word is really motivating.
    Thank you : )))

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  3. Stuff is looking great, solid pre-production leads to great production,

    keep up guys !!

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    1. Rubes! Lovely to hear from you! Thanks for stopping by :) I know everyone is looking forward to the moment when Atom Pancakes' new project can be unveiled on here... Tip me the wink when the secrecy is lifted and I'll trumpet your new venture to all and sundry! :D

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  4. Simply mouth-watering! great range of work ((:]

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  5. Nice post. Great to see the course getting better and better results each year.

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  6. As always the 2D stuff is really strong well done to all....well thats the blanket congratulations out of the way.....I shall endeavor to post some Ideas suggestions when I have the time, but to start with.....Ryan Leitao..."Projections"....what the hell am I looking at ? just curious, what you chaps and chapes'sessssss have to do is translate your great 2d work into 3D, its a long ole arduous journey, but worth itgood luck and look forward to some kick Ass renders.
    All the best Robin

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  7. The video was an experiment in projection mapping onto three real life canvas boards in an attempt to creating a psuedo-3D effect from within a certain perspective. Similar to these

    Also see:
    http://i.imgur.com/bwSVQ88.jpg

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