I had a conversation recently with a visiting academic from another university who asked me about our course title - Computer Animation Arts . "Why not just Computer Animation?" he asked me. The conversation took place as we stood outside the CAA baseroom, our backs against the vivid parade of character designs from Heidi 'Class of 2016' Grover's 'Legends Of Grimm' project . Meanwhile, in the baseroom, visiting lecturer, Dan Snelgrove , was putting a group of our year two students through a series of increasingly improbable improvisations in their 'acting for animation' classes. A few doors down, CAA first years were working with Jordan Buckner on the art direction and production design for their current Fantastic Voyage project. Elsewhere, third year students were continuing to put their various CG assets through their paces for animated shorts derived from their own original poems and scripts. My answer to the visiting academi...