Computer Animation Arts

"Star Wars - Episode IV Sound Design Explained by Ben Burtt" by In-depth Sound Design Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt (Lucasfilm, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and more) explains how he 'found' the iconic sounds for Star Wars from the world around him.

REACTION from dfmn on Vimeo .

On December 9th, our animation, La création du monde , was screened twice at the Salle de l'Eden, Hirson, as part of the ONE is more programme of cultural activity. Created originally as part of the ACT/CAA collaboration , the animation was animated and art-directed by course alumni, Jordan Buckner and Tom Beg - but its imagery was 'crowd-sourced' from the entire CAA creative community as part of an innovative, large scale collaboration . We were reunited once more with conductor, Arie van Beek , and the musicians and backstage crew of the Orchestre de Picardie . With the orchestra in place - and the audience in their seats - our animation was rear-projected onto the stage of the theatre, as the musicians played Darius Milhaud's 1923 ballet. Behind the scenes, Keith Burden, of Clever Projections , had installed and synched a powerful projector to a bank of computers, enabling us to keep the animation in-synch with the live performance of La création du mon...

Notes on a Triangle (1966) by René Jodoin - I'm a huge fan of these abstract animations.  It's what comes of growing up at a time when there were only three television channels, and you'd suddenly find yourself watching experimental animation on BBC 2 because there was nothing else on - apart from the news.  That was the great thing about 'the dark ages' of the late 70s/early 80s; you ended up watching stuff you couldn't predict and wouldn't have chosen.  

Introducing Ballpit - some abstract eye-candy for this dull, rainy Sunday... and perhaps some further inspiration for our year one students and their current 'Soundscape' project, in which many of them are challenged to bring life (and sound) to non-figurative worlds of shape, colour and form... BALLPIT from kvmowat on Vimeo .

Something elegant and abstract from  Labmeta - Volt  (Alex - this one's for you!) Volt from Labmeta on Vimeo .

" Abstract birds * are Pedro Mari and Natan Sinigaglia, two visual music artists. Their work combines images with sounds through the use of musical instruments interfaced with generative systems dedicated to audiovisual creation in real time. The musical aesthetic is rooted both in the tradition of classical music and in the well-established tradition of jazz, drawing in particular from the latter the improvisatory nature of execution, which is crucial in the work of Abstract Birds. The visual aesthetic is abstract, with a conscious use of shapes and colors, although the dynamics of the audiovisual world take inspiration from the natural world..." (Don't be put off by the atonal music and pace of these excerpts; just give in to them and let them play out. Be patient. They are wonderfully immersive, so rejoice in the abstraction, shape, colour, movement and sound. There should be lots here to interest CGAA year one - in terms of evocative macro-landscapes and soundscape...