Computer Animation Arts

Sorry if this has already be explained but I was just wondering if you wanted a physical copy of the technical paper as well as a .pdf on our submission disc?

Hints and Tips for Killer Crit Presentations 1) Be on time! We start at 9am so you can get your work on the L1 computer and begin the presentations at 10am. If you arrive late, then make everyone sit around prior to your presentation while you copy your work to disc – everyone in the room is thinking dark thoughts about you… 2) Present only what you’ve been asked to present. Don’t freestyle. If you’ve been asked to present your ‘definitive influence map, final concept art image, digital set cg pipeline and final scene’ – then do it – and in the sequence requested. All additional content should be on your blog as a matter of habit. Your presentation is not your blog. Your presentation is the ‘essential oil’ of your five weeks work. It should be concentrated, pure and precision-engineered. 3) Prepare & rehearse. Weird though you’ll probably feel as you talk to yourself in the privacy of your bedrooms, you need to ‘hear’ what you’re going to say – and how you’re going ...

I found this article a while ago and have been meaning to post it for a while, so a new semester is a good place. Feedback improvement. Critique is a very important part of learning. No one is born with godlike skills in any field, and improvement happens both through passion and constructive feedback given by other people. The majority of amateur artists do not have a well-developed capacity to objectively view their work and on their own understand and fix any mistakes or improve a more or less good piece of work - this is when the outsider opinion comes to help. Looking at one’s work through another person’s eyes can literally do wonders. A truly outstanding comment is always hard to compose, always hard to receive, and always hard to come by. For an artist however, a comment is of the greatest importance. It provides feedback on an artwork that will continue to remain unmatched by that of a single word or emoticon. To an artist, a comment is the difference between progression and r...