Computer Animation Arts

This one will be really useful for First Years later on in their time on CGAA. "A short experimental piece featuring a blend of Macro Photography and CG Animation. This project started with an idea by our friend David Parvin at Two Rivers Partnership to shoot abstract forms using macro photography. We loved the concept and together we came up with some great ideas. We shot the project with David and we ended up with a plethora of unique and intriguing footage. The footage was shot with a Canon 5DMKII and a 100mm Macro lens. Back at Gecko we experimented with interspersing CG elements with the footage, to construct a narrative from the forms we saw."

Okay - so these 3 extraordinary little films by Clemens Wirth don't quite fit into the 'animation' category (their charming use of motion graphics excepted), but I saw them and loved their transformative perspectives and sense of whimsy. Wirth is studying multimedia art at the University of Applied Sciences, Austria. "I recently bought me the MP-E 65mm and played with it a little bit. It's a very special lens and you need a little bit of patience, but the results are breathtaking."