Computer Animation Arts

School may indeed be out for Summer, but here on on Planet CAA , time is of the essence as work continues on our adaptation of Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra ( 'YPGTTO') as part of our collaboration with an Orchestra Network for Europe (ONE), a network of classical symphony orchestras encompassing France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. This special edition of the Computer Animation Arts ' Post With The Most celebrates our work with ONE and catches up with all the latest from the production of the YPGTTO animation .  For those of you not already familiar with the project, a quick recap: Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra was written in 1945 and serves as a tour of the various instrument groups in the symphony orchestra and is the go-to standard for introducing children to classical music. Our animated adaptation of YPGTTO will be screened with live acc...

This month's PWTM puts me in mind of the knickerbocker glories of my youth - those showy desserts in the tall showy glasses that necessitated a spoon with a long handle, so chockablock were they with layers of ice-cream, jelly, syrup and fruit.  You're going to need a long spoon of your own to get through this little lot! On Friday 29th March, our first years presented their final animations to their client, Dr Peter Klappa,   lecturer in Bioscience at the University of Kent.  This final culminative brief - which asks them to pre-produce, produce and post-produce their very first CGI animation - represents a formidable level of challenge. Not only do they have to draw upon the full range of skills they've acquired during the year, they must also understand and articulate creatively a range of bioscientific scenarios.  Never has the imagined divide between art and science seemed more implausible. For your viewing pleasure, I'm presenting a selection of...