Computer Animation Arts

Open call for the Young Artist of the Year Competition ARTIST’S BRIEF 2019   Deadline for submissions 1 September 2019 (midnight) About the award Three unique organisations are collaborating to provide a significant platform and stepping stone for young artists. The new Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award in partnership with Saatchi Gallery will discover and champion exceptional artists who are representative of contemporary Britain. From an open call across the UK, we are seeking to discover 10 outstanding artists whose work demonstrates a strong and original voice, is of exceptional artistic quality. We’re looking for artists who represent the UK’s richly diverse population, and embody the experiences of their community. Artists who create bold, unique pieces of art that reveal their own perspectives and experiences and whom represent unique viewpoints and will help start new conversations in the UK art scene.   The ten shortlisted artist...

Study Guides Just a quick reminder that there is a very useful bank of resources available on myUCA, that you should all take some time to familiarise yourselves with... the guides cover aspects such as planning, time management, writing skills, presentation skills etc.  Go and have a look! Find the full list  HERE

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt  -  Explore the design and culture of contemporary videogames Exhibition opens Saturday 8th September This exhibition provides a unique insight into the design process behind a selection of groundbreaking contemporary videogames. Design work, including concept art and prototypes, feature alongside large-scale immersive installations and interactives. Full details and tickets  HERE

A nice little animation showing Dreamworks pipeline, taking an idea from script to screen.

Dearest First Years! I know you are all in the midst of a deadline as you all cram to get storyboards and animatics completed, but, it's time to let you know about the return of Photoshop classes. From Monday 23rd February , Photoshop classes will begin again.  However, this time, they will be separated somewhat from your project work. Rather than giving you a space to develop project ideas, these new classes are aimed to give you a chance to improve as artists. They will be more like life drawing or animation classes, where you will be given exercises to help you try out new techniques and improve at old ones. So, this will mean still life, master studies, composition layouts, gesture studies and much much more. It will also hopefully give us a space to move between sketchbooks and digital. Essentially, we want to give you more space to be artists outside of a project brief. To give you a chance to explore different techniques and hopefully find a space between digital and ...

The second part of my photographic record of Benjamin Britten's, Noye's Fludde at the Cirque Jules Verne in Amiens. The production was an ACT collaboration combining the talents of many artists and designers across a wide range of disciplines, including work produced by Computer Animation Arts at UCA Rochester. Click the link below to view the first set of images. Part One - 'In Black and White'   tombeg.blogspot.com behance.net/tombeg vimeo.com/tombeg

On Wednesday 14th of January, I traveled with Computer Animation Arts'  Phil Gomm to the historic French city of Amiens, with the purpose of documenting, via the medium of photographic film, dress rehearsals for a performance of Benjamin Britten's, Noye's Fludde at the spectacular, Cirque Jules Verne . Featuring work produced by Computer Animations Arts , the production was an ACT collaboration project  combining Britten's original lo-fi, amateur-based intent, with fascinating modern visual production and design. Keeping in spirit with the analogue approach, I took along some classic photojournalist black and white film and also modern colour film hoping to capture the energy and buzz of the event as faithfully as I could. While it wasn't always easy, I hope these photos at least portray that sense of atmosphere and excitement, felt by all the performers, artists and technicians in the lead-up to the final performance.  ...

"A not-so-brave knight is on a quest for Fame and Fortune - Legend says rescuing a princess is the way to go. And in those same fairy tales, there's only one way to slay the dragon that hold the hold the fair lady captive: find the invincible sword."