Computer Animation Arts

This month's Computer Animation Arts Post With The Most is like browsing the shelves of a library. Indeed, we have so many student 'Art Ofs' for your leisurely perusal you might need two cups of tea and an entire packet of biscuits to see everything on here. Art Ofs are our way of celebrating the full scope of creative work undertaken by our students as they take their ideas from those first nebulous projections in their mind's eye to something concrete, polished, fit-for-purpose, professionalised and shareable.  Let them serve as a rebuff to those funny ideas some people have that on a course specialising in production for 3D animation it's 'the computer' doing all the work!  Ha! Take even the shortest time to flip through some of these publications and you'll see at once our students are formidably powerful in terms of imagining story worlds and their respective inhabitants - oh yeah, and they can build and animate all this stuff too! ...

“Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!” Ogden Nash I'm pretty sure I've kicked off previous December 31 PWTMs with this self-same poem, but nothing else I've found quite captures the ambivalence many of us feel at the turning of the year: a mixture of anticipation and relief - and of being rocket-launched headlong into another twelve months of plans, projects and misadventures! For the creative community of Computer Animation Arts , the start of the new calendar year always coincides with very real resolutions; certain things must get done. Certain milestones must be reached. The new academic term will kick off with multiple new project briefings for our first and second years, which will see them challenged in new and demanding ways, while our third years have two big January hand-in...