Computer Animation Arts

The macabre animated short Chernokids has turned my head towards the extraordinary, taboo-baiting photography of Joel Peter Witkin . His celebration of idiosyncratic flesh - alive and dead - courts controversy and his eroticisation of the marginal, the forbidden and the abject is, for many, a step too far. There is, however, an inarguable elegance to his compositions - his 'don't look' subject matter transformed into a viewing experience altogether more complicated by its appropriation of the modes of classical painting. It's Joseph Merrick meets Pyramid Head , and any CGAA student looking for inspiration for truly provocative character design should stay a while in the company of Witkin's tribe of outcasts... "Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than twenty years he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within ...