Computer Animation Arts

I consider myself lucky to be working in an environment as tolerant, inclusive and down-with-diversity as the creative community of Computer Animation Arts .  It makes what's happening out there in the wider world seem so terribly strange and difficult to compute.  First Brexit, then Trump, and now a Muslim Ban. It's like the braying bully boys from the dark days of my comprehensive school are running all the institutions; those white parochial alphas who joked and farted through English class, through art, foreign languages and history, and then brutalised everyone else for getting their heads down and dreaming of better things and a wider world. I take great comfort from this month's Post With The Most, featuring work from young people from a multitude of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.  CAA has a reputation for being a safe place for the neuro-diverse, for all shades of LGBTQ, and for all manner of 'diamonds in the rough' whose potential might ...

Filharmonia Śląska, Katowice, Poland On Friday, January 27th, CAA's celebrated visualisation of Darius Milhaud's ballet, La création du monde was screened in Katowice, Poland, with live accompaniment by the musicians of the  Filharmonia Śląska .   Milosz Kula   was their conductor, and in the grand surroundings of their concert hall, our sixteen minutes-or-so cascade of shape, colour and form illuminated the fascinated faces of a full house.  This is the sixth screening for our animation, which began life as a multi-participant speed paint challenge, in which the students, alumni and staff of Computer Animation Arts were invited to visualise Milhaud's jazz-inspired ballet as a series of abstract digital paintings . CAA alumni Tom Beg and Jordan Buckner then worked with the resulting paintings, translating them into moving image. In common with previous screenings, the experience of watching the animation accompanied by the full bombast and beauty of...