Computer Animation Arts

Usually, the PWTM begins with some alliterative preamble that seeks to characterise the ongoing endeavours of the student, staff and alumni of BA (Hons) CG Arts & Animation - soon to be known as Computer Animation Arts .  My preface this month is shorter and sweeter - short because all I need do is invite you to sit back and enjoy this selection of final works from years one, two and three, and sweet because it gives me great pleasure to do so.  You're looking at an awful lot of hard work here, at goals met and personal bests.  As always, I encourage our loyal readers to go beyond the PWTM by accessing the individual student blogs, because what you see here are but the tips of some truly impressive icebergs.  Enjoy.  Tom Farrington - Experiment IX   (For Tom's  Art Of   go here ) Lydia Caplan - Eglington Road (For Lydia's Art Of go here ) Joey Ku - The Carnival Of The Animals (For Joey's Art Of go here...

As of now, British Summertime is go, bringing with it thoughts of pellucid blue skies, sun-burned shoulders and long, drowsy afternoons hushed and lullabyed by the buzz of bees and the Proustian jangle of far away ice-cream vans...   How cruel then - how insensitive! - that British Summertime begins just as our community of students hit their busiest season, their noses so hard to the grindstone, that the outside world goes unremarked upon and unnoticed.  But the twin seductions of fresh air and actual physical exercise must be resisted for a few weeks more; there is work to be done and new standards to be set as the academic year powers up for the final push. This month's Post With The Most is a doozy, and if any further evidence was needed that CGAA @ UCA Rochester is doing extraordinary things pretty much on a daily basis, let this be it, with content expressing the full breadth of our creative ambitions.  With projects ranging from artful expositions of...