Computer Animation Arts

Ah, Autumn!  Season of mellow fruitfulness and all that, the hedgerows bejewelled with rosehips and embroidered with spiders' silk.   Autumn is also the season of acorns - of humble beginnings from which towering accomplishments will surely grow.  It's week 4 of the new academic year here on Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation at UCA Rochester and our newest acorns are putting down roots and sending out shoots.   It can be an intimidating time for new undergraduates - so much change, so much adaptation! - and a panoply of new creative challenges ahead.  Impressively, our newest recruits are eschewing anxiety for 'getting stuck in' - and this month's PWTM begins with a glimpse into their output so far.     CGAA Year One have been challenged to devise and execute original concept paintings in response to a series of classic literary texts, encompassing the baroque grotesquery of H. P. Lovecraft and feverish morbidities of Edgar Allan Poe, to the sug...