Computer Animation Arts

"Tim Walker’s photographs have entranced the readers of Vogue, month by month, for over a decade. Extravagant staging and romantic motifs characterise his unmistakable style." Tim Walker is a fashion photographer and filmmaker whose richly constructed sets and fragmented fantasy narratives should have immediate appeal for the CG Arts & Animation student. Indeed, I couldn't help but think of Lydia's recent Twenty To Nine digital set project while enjoying Walker's imagery. Walker's photographs are dreamlike and prickle with uncanny effects.  I love their theatricality and visual splendour.  Walker's worlds are like The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover meets La Belle et La Bete via Edward Scissorhands .

Jennifer Cronin is a new discovery for me, but her paintings captured my attention immediately - and little wonder, for they vibrate with that unhomely energy that so appeals to me. Here again, an artist uses suburbia and the domestic sphere as a site of unease and invasion. I don't know what those floating apparitions exactly are in Cronin's work, but I've seen enough J-Horror to be wary... "There is always something that cannot be seen. A before and after. Something just outside, on the fringe, or even teeming just beneath the surface. Building upon the ubiquitous but often concealed psychological underpinnings inherent to suburban life, my paintings create an absurd mythology of the seemingly banal. I am certainly not alone in my upbringing as a female growing up in the suburbs, yet that aspect of my identity has remained one of the most salient and inescapable to me throughout my life. My earlier paintings vibrate with a dark anxiety with women looking for...

Another short film from Jim Lo Scalzo - Twilight in New Orleans , in which Lo Scalzo documents the post-Katrina abandonment of New Orleans. Twilight in New Orleans from Jim Lo Scalzo on Vimeo .

Ghosts in the Hollow is an atmospheric short film by author and photojournalist, Jim Lo Scalzo , which documents the abandoned coal towns of Appalachia. The imagery here pressed pretty much all of my buttons. These forlorn places are creepy, filmic and elegiac. Ghosts in the Hollow from Jim Lo Scalzo on Vimeo .

In common with the paintings of Edward Hopper and tableaux of Gregory Crewdson , Dan Witz's paintings are richly cinematic and pregnant with suspense. In particular, Witz's images of lighted homesteads recall establishing shots from home-invasion slasher films, from John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) to Wes Craven's Scream franchise (1996 - 2011) . These illuminated buildings are marooned in the night; welcoming, yes, but vulnerable, certainly... See more of Witz's paintings her e

"Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the "Amish Country" until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with two degrees: film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles, CA, USA... Brooke has been said to encapsulate a new way of creating imagery for our time and has "...dramatically restated a new photographic feminist agenda for the 21st century." Her use of the square format and heavy texture work to create a painterly aesthetic is redefining the boundaries of photography. With these tools at hand, she creates new worlds through her images. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible. Brooke's photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive." from b...