Computer Animation Arts

Thank you to Nadia for posting this on Facebook... Danny, thought you might be interested! :) Chemical Party...

For the sculpting classes please purchase the list of items below (see image above) and please download the revised timetable for term 3 from MyUCA (shown below also). Your shopping list (£15 - £20): Image 1: 2 x Types of Pliers & 1x Wire Cutters Where to buy: Wilkinsons or similar Ways to save money: Share a set with a friend. Image 2: Super Sculpey (firm) Where to buy: Uni store's (Lower 4th)   Ways to save money: Uni store's is cheaper already.   Image 4: Sculpting Tools, Paint Brush, Sponge  Where to buy: Uni art shop (reception)/ Sponges in Poundland Ways to save money: Buy sculpting tools individually not a set. Image 5: Marker & Tin Foil  Where to buy: Uni Shop & Poundland Ways to save money: Share with a friend. Image 6: Dividers Where to buy: Poundland  Ways to save money: Share with a friend. Image 7: Optional - Brass Tubing - max 1cm Diameter x min 15cm length Where to buy: A Mo...

Saw these and thought at once of their relevance to animation - bionic creatures courtesy of the Festo Corporation .

I'm kicking off this freshly-minted, seam-bulging March edition of the Computer Animation Arts Post With The Most with some mouth-watering morsels of synthesthetic fun. As part of their animation workshops, tutor Meg Bisineer challenged our year one students to animate a favourite taste; to give visual expression to the tingling of tastebuds and the mmmm of umami...  Chelsea Butler - 'Pasta Sauce' Kayleigh Anderson - 'Chocolate' Jack White - 'Dr Pepper' Ella Pinnington - 'Cake' Charlie Serafini - 'Carrot' On a related theme, our first years also completed a sound-design project recently, which asked them to respond 'sonically' to a trio of highly abstract images. Equipped with pocket-sized sound recorders, our intrepid students went out into the field to record vocabularies of sound - the dripping of taps, ...