Computer Animation Arts

Following yesterday's Jordu Schell showcase, more monsters now - courtesy of fx artist and sculptor,  Francesa Dalla Benetta ... "My work is about the sensations suggested by grotesque anatomies. I want people to be intrigued by the possibility of impossible bodies, I want people to imagine the feeling of touch skins and textures. My attention goes to the topics of hybridization, transformation, self identity and the bizarre. I'm inspired by the unusual, by what is behind the first impression, in shapes and meanings. I believe that Art is Beauty, but to me it means neither harmony nor balance. It rather implies the capacity of seeing beyond the appearance, the tenderness in an ugly body. It is finding something very special, maybe inexplicable, that makes feel attracted to the unconventional. My art intends to give a different perception of Beauty, to force paradigms to look at things in a new way. It's about feel pleasure in see unpleasant forms. That is w...

Describing itself as a 'neverending celebration of monsters', the Monster Brains blog might be the perfect place for a newly gene-spliced CGAA first year to find some further inspiration for their own transformations and ample evidence of the enduring cultural appeal of human metamorphosis and cross-species hybridisation...

While browsing the internet I came across this fabulous and detailed drawings by Caitlin Hackett, knowing that some of you are doing creature design related, I decided to share her works. They have this mythological creature quality, which resembles chimeras or any other hybrid creatures. To know more about her works and the meaning behind them, nothing better than herself to explain it. "In my work I am exploring the relationship between humans and animals; the idea of the human denial of our animal nature and of humans as the dominant species, as well as the mutation of the animal created by the human interpretation of the animal. My work alludes to the boundaries that separate humanity from animals both physically and metaphysically, as well as the objectification of and personification of animals. I invent creatures, anthropomorphic, mutated, or pseudo mythical in imagery, using my imaginary world and bringing it into the physical world in an attempt to create a lang...