Computer Animation Arts

File hosting site has gone down Unfortunately, the site which hosts the downloads (scene files not the videos) on the Toolkit website has gone down with a technical fault. They are working hard to fix it but there is no estimated time for the maintenance. The site is American meaning that a lot of the repair work is happening overnight in the US which is during the day in the UK. If anyone is having difficulty downloading anything I will do my best to email you the files in the interim. Please send an email with your request. My address is: apostings@ucreative.ac.uk - Alan.

You've been asked to submit the three projects comprising Toolkit 1 to your blogs by 5pm on Monday 13th May .  Those three projects are Drawing with Maud, Animation  with Nat, and Autodesk Maya with Simon.  When Maud, Nat and Simon assess your projects, they're expecting you to have done your housekeeping in accordance with their respective briefs.  For your convenience then, I'm summarising those expectations here.  Project 1 / Drawing A final Scribd portfolio (or ISSUU...) of all archived drawings produced during your drawing sessions. Portfolio should be presented professionally and all drawings dated and compiled in chronological order. (This should include any extended studies you may have produced in response to photographs of your life-drawings) You should also ensure that all Life Drawing posts are tagged appropriately and consistently, so all your work can be gathered together under one label. You also need to include a short refl...

Dear 1st years, As promised I have provided the list of Maya tutorials to date: If you notice that I have missed any that you have posted then feel free to send me an e-mail with a link to the appropriate post and I will update accordingly. I am aware that the majority have completed more that what is shown here, you probably just need to upload the images/ videos. Thanks and good luck on the final push, Simon

You've been asked to submit the three projects comprising Toolkit 1 to your blogs by 5pm on Monday 14th May .  Those three projects are Drawing with Vicky, Animation  with Nat, and Autodesk Maya with Simon.  When Vicky, Nat and Simon assess your projects, they're expecting you to have done your housekeeping in accordance with their respective briefs.  For your convenience then, I'm summarising those expectations here.  Project 1 / Drawing A final Scribd portfolio of all archived drawings produced during your drawing sessions. Portfolio should be presented professionally and all drawings dated and compiled in chronological order. (This should include any extended studies you may have produced in response to photographs of your life-drawings) You should also ensure that all Life Drawing posts are tagged appropriately and consistently, so all your work can be gathered together under one label. You also need to include a short reflective state...

Group A Georgia, Francis, Ciaran, Dante, Juan, Emily, Chloe, Alfie, Adri, Nelly Group B Filipe, Annie, Meg, Sandra*, Tom, Frankie, Ollie, Divine, Tia *Sandra Sandal is our new exchange student for Terms 2 & 3.  Sandra's blog is  http://justsassa.blogspot.co.uk   Sandra will be arriving with us on Monday. Please make Sandra feel welcome.

This is a message for our year one students... on Friday November 17th , you're 'flying solo', as Nat Urwin and Simon Holland are accompanying me to the Amiens premiere of Red & The Kingdom Of Sound - our animated adaptation of The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra .  You'll have loads to keep you busy without us, so we don't anticipate you'll be twiddling your thumbs!  Please make a note of the date in your diary and how it changes your published timetable.  Many thanks.