Computer Animation Arts

Great news!  CGAA alumni, Leo Tsang , who graduated last year with a first class degree, has just been in contact to let me know that he's just started his new job with London-based Bafta-award winning  Blue-Zoo Animation Studio   and  is working currently on Blue-Zoo's children show, Q-Pootle 5!   Congratulations Leo, from all of us on Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation - your success is sure to inspire! Well done and best of luck in the new role! :)

My most up-to-date listing so far of the 'all-new' CGAA Class of 2012 blogs - re-posted after some clash of hidden coding in the original 'incoming' posts turned the group blog an eye-watering blue! Add them to your Blogger reading lists and make everyone welcome - and offer help, support and guidance when duty calls! Shannon Mason @ http://shannonkmason.blogspot.co.uk Jake Bryant @ http://jakejbryant.blogspot.co.uk George Hind @ http://george-hind.blogspot.co.uk Alex Edmonds @ http://alexnedmonds.blogspot.co.uk Vikki Hercules @ http://vikkirh.blogspot.co.uk George Nwosisi @ http://www.georgenwosisi.blogspot.co.uk Samantha Niemczky @ http://samantha-niemczyk.blogspot.co.uk Lekti Rose Jacobs @ http://lektirose.blogspot.co.uk Akinbiyi Babarinde @ http://kinblob.blogspot.co.uk/ Katy Fosdike @ http://katyfosdike1.blogspot.co.uk Megan Howett @ http://meganhowett.blogspot.co.uk Anass Moudakir @ http://a-animator.blogspot.co.uk Dhuran Modha @ ...

It's a very long time since I last had to go 'school uniform shopping' or buy a new pencil case in preparation for the new academic year, and yet September always gets me the same way: that unmistakeable mix of excitement-meets-melancholy.  The Summer is ending - sigh - which means  it's time to rev the engines and jump-start the old grey matter and thus prepare for another incredibly busy and productive year on CG Arts & Animation . What better way to ease us all into the prospect of a new semester of CGAA at UCA Rochester than with a freshly-minted edition of the PWTM boasting a whole host of good news stories from the CG Arts community and a round-up of what our students have been doing while not a) watching the Olympics or b) reading Fifty Shades of Grey ... Unless you've been living on the 'lost isle of no-internet' these past few months, you'll know that July's  New Designers 2012 was a great success for CGAA - and it di...

Congratulations to  Ruben 'Class of 2012' Martins   whose work has just been profiled in  Digital Arts  magazine's 'freshest creatives' showcase.  Check out Ruben's website  here .

Congratulations to Jolanta 'Class of 2012' Jasiulionyte whose work has just been profiled in Digital Arts magazine's 'freshest creatives' showcase.  Check out JJ's Behance page here .

  The Computer Graphic community, both student body and a major share of professionals were partaking annual SIGGRAPH convention, this year at Los Angeles Convention Centre.       SIGGRAPH 2012 was big and ground breaking as ever. Peddie Research notes what we all concur on. " SIGGRAPH is a joyful expression of our desire to recreate the beauty, wonder, and even dread in the world we see around us. At SIGGRAPH people share what they've learnt and learn from others because the goal is huge. It's nothing less than to create the tools to translate the visual into the digital. "   In short, SIGGRAPH exhibited and published some of the most exciting and ground-breaking art and art papers in the world. SIGGRAPH consisted of many production sessions, where recently or about-to-be released films were explored by key creative personnel behind it. Such explored films included The Avengers, Paranorman, Brave, The Real ...