Computer Animation Arts

"The Peacock Armada Attacks!"

"Romance Blossoms At The Blobfish Ball..."

"The Wedding Feast of Mr & Mrs Lepidoptera"

"It's Twilight In The Tower Of The Hummingbird Queen..." 

Okay, after the book jackets of last week, it's high-time for some unapologetic free-range make-believe!  Do what you like with the following.... environments, characters, things... if you can see it, depict it! "It's Dusk In The Pleasure Gardens of the Samphire King..."

Franz Kafka / The Metamorphosis (1915) "The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become."

Bram Stoker / The Lair Of The White Worm (1911) " The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil ) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm ..."

John Wyndham /  The Day Of The Triffids (1951) Synopsis: The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel about a plague of blindness that befalls the entire world, allowing the rise of an aggressive species of plant...

It's July already.   New Designers is over for another year.  It can only mean one thing, ladies and gents - yes, it's time for the onset of this Summer's CAA Speed Paint Challenges!  I'm hoping for lots of take-up this time around - a flurry of quick, instinctive and fun activities on your blogs - to be shared, enjoyed, tweeted and PWTM osted at the end of the month!   The first batch of themes are going under the subtitle 'The Paperback Challenge', and you'll be asked to 'design' book jackets for classic novels; all this really means is your resulting speed paintings need to be portrait, as opposed to landscape in terms of their canvas orientation (i.e. book cover shaped!). You can respond illustratively, graphically, symbolically - or indeed anyway at all.  The speed paints don't need to include the book title or author - but can do if you want.   (This might be a good chance to work on those typeface/graphic design skills too!) When y...