Computer Animation Arts

Some of you have already popped by CGAA 2012 graduate Jolanta Jasiulionyte's blog to congratulate her on her recent interview published in Lithuania's largest newspaper, Lietuvos Rytas .  For those of you who haven't, Jolanta was interviewed recently about her animation and character design work, with especial attention paid to Jolanta's The Baltic Pixie .   Congratulations, JJ - great stuff!

Jolanta Jasiulionyte - otherwise known as JJ - graduated from BA Hons CG Arts & Animation in July 2012 with a first class degree. Little wonder. From the moment JJ arrived with us from Lithuania, she made it her mission to squeeze as much from her undergraduate experience at UCA Rochester as humanly possible. On most days, Jolanta was in the CGAA baseroom before the course staff, juggling her always ambitious projects with freelance commissions and her role as a UCA ambassador.  JJ's creative work is distinguished by its individuality and art style, born always from her expressive and exuberant drawing. JJ's year one with CGAA culminated in her otherworldly Life Cycle of Slime Mold, which she followed at the conclusion of year 2 with her animated short, Ivan the Bird. Ivan is an exemplar of JJ's idiosyncratic and richly-textured world-making , her titular character as burnished and fantastical. The Baltic Pixie was JJ's cgi finale - an original chara...