Computer Animation Arts

Your Invisible Cities proformas are now at your myUCA accounts. This is the first time you will have received feedback, so read it very carefully. Then read it again! Remember, this grade is formative - it is for your guidance only, and it's my way of expressing the concrete reality of course expectations while there's plenty of time and opportunity for you to improve what you need to improve and achieve something extraordinary. As I've said many times already, my interest now is in ensuring that come the end of term and your WIM summative assessment, you are more confident, more skilled, more organised, and more professional.  No standing still please and no sulks. If in doubt, look at the assessment criteria - and then read my feedback all over again. Obviously, if you do have any questions or if there's anything I've written you don't quite understand, let me know - but no email rants please. If you haven't received your feedback, leave...

This is message for our hard-working first years in their final few days before their first crit presentation and submission!  We know you're very busy and feeling the pinch and we know you're nervous about Friday, but there are things you can do to feel less nervous and take more control! 1) Make sure you're looking at the information we've provided you and you're paying attention to it. The information is there to make your lives easier and your goals crystal-clear.   For your convenience, I'm including here the links to the original post re. your submission requirements, the advice and guidance re. What is an 'Art Of', and the examples of previous student submissions. Submission requirements @  https://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.com/2018/10/fao-caa-yr-1-invisible-cities-2017.html What is an Art Of? @  https://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.com/2018/09/fao-caa-year-1-invisible-cities-2018.html Previous student su...

What follows are instructions for your crit presentations and reminders of what you need to present and submit on Friday, 19th October.  Please use your network of creative partners to ensure that everyone has seen this information and understood it.  Any queries, please leave a comment and I'll clarify. A new CG animated adaptation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is in pre-production. In response to the source material allocated to you at the briefing, you have been commissioned to produce 3 fully-resolved concept paintings of one of Calvino’s fantastical cities. You have been asked to visualise your chosen city in three different types of shot: 1) Exterior Establishing Shot 2) Exterior Low Angle Shot 3) Interior Establishing Shot Your concept paintings should be 16:9 and painted digitally. You are asked to maintain a comprehensive blog archiving and annotating your creative development for the duration of the project. You should use th...

Wednesday, 3rd October is your Invisible Cities  Online Greenlight Review (OGR) Your OGR is to be presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, beginning with your name, date, and project title. If you are still yet to get to grips with Scribd go here for some easy-to-follow instructions.  Save your documents as PDFs before uploading to Scribd , as this should mitigate against formating glitches. When pasting Scribd embed code into your blog, you must first select the HTML mode tab, then switch back to 'Compose' to view the embedded presentation. Your OGR presentations should be uploaded to your blogs on Wednesday 3rd October. Written feedback will follow as comments on your OGR post and will take between 1 and 3 days. Invisible Cities  2018 OGR: What do you need to present? 1) Your 100 thumbnails exploring all cities  (minimum). 2) Your chosen city, its key descriptions and associated thumbnails. (Please include the...

As part of your Invisible Cities submission requirements, you're being asked to produce an 'Art Of'. You'll be asked to submit an 'Art Of' document for all your forthcoming projects, so there's no time like the present in terms of getting the hang of them. Your Art Of is a curated exposition of your pre-production, production and final piece. curate: 1) to take charge of (a museum) or organize (an art exhibit): 2) to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation exposition: 1) a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea. In other words, your Art Of is the 'edited highlights' of all the work you've produced in the working-up and execution of your 3 Invisible Cities paintings.   You need to create your Art Of with the uninitiated reader in mind ; it needs to explain the brief (succinctly), introduce Calvino (succinctly), introduce Invisible Cities (succinctly), and introduce us to your city...

And so it begins, ladies and gentlemen - your first undergraduate project brief, and your first foray into the fast-paced, high-energy culture of Computer Animation Arts! I'm not alone in looking forward to seeing how you respond to the challenge of your Invisible Cities project, but before you get stuck in, just take a few moments to take a look at these examples of previous student work. By clicking on their names, you'll be able to view all blog posts associated with their respective Invisible Cities projects. Don't get preoccupied with the polish of the final paintings, give your attention instead to their methodology - that is, how they arrived at the final three paintings. Review their research and reflect on its presentation.  What impresses about their work?  What might you do differently?  Take time to think about the ways in which the students have organised, presented and published their bodies of work.  Happy browsing! Ellie Row Animat...