Computer Animation Arts

Hi Guys, A quick update for those of you that were having trouble loading Mudbox. The problem has now been resolved by our trusty IT team, so you should be able to open Mudbox without anymore issues. The problem was caused by the file that Mudbox creates when opened becoming corrupted. If anyone has issues with Mudbox crashing on start up then go to "My Documents" locate the "Mudbox" file and simply delete it. ( If you have anything saved in it then make sure you back up  these file elsewhere first.) Doing this will force Mudbox to create a new clean version of this file, after that you should be good to go.

With just four weeks to go before the end of the academic year, CG Arts & Animation @ UCA Rochester is powering up for its busiest period.  Soon, little slips of white paper will appear on keyboards everywhere scrawled with the words, 'Don't touch - Rendering!' and the course team will go about the campus shouting into the pale faces of sleep-deprived students, imploring them to 'Back-up your files' and then,  'Back-up your files again!' .  The air will take on the sickly-sweet chemical tang of energy drinks, a heat haze will rise from long-suffering harddrives, and at least one student will burst into tears for no clear or discernible reason.   It's an exciting time, a fraught time and a transformative time, as cg assets born of ambitious production pipelines seek to become greater than the sum of their parts. Right now, those 'ambitious production pipelines' are pumping out exciting appetisers and this month's PWTM beg...