Computer Animation Arts

We all enjoyed the original 'Dumb Ways To Die' - indeed, I was singing the song for weeks.  I've just watched this parody featuring notable deaths in cinema - it might make you smile, but I reckon the 'Minas Tirith' bit will make you 'lol' - it did me.  Go on - waste 3 minutes of your life... Enjoy!

Good news! Extra time to complete the Maya tutorials. Year 1:  Submission: Friday 10th May by 2pm Thats a whole extra week!  Year 2:  Submission: Friday 10th May by 2pm Thats two extra days (in addition to the two extra for the Adaptation project)! Note: Please help us to mark your work accurately by: 1) Making sure that all tutorials are uploaded to your blog and can be viewed. 2) By creating a 'master post' that links to all your previous tutorial posts.  Good Luck!

More details to follow, but we'd like to invite all years to screen their work in Lecture Theatre 2 on Friday May 24th - with some end of term drinks in a (hopefully) sunny beer garden to follow! All those in favour say 'I'!

As some of you may have heard already, I've taken pity on our poor, stressed & sleep-deprived 2nd and 3rd years and cleared out next Tuesday (May 7th) of all other commitments - other than getting your submissions ready, of course!  What this means is that Darren Wall of Planet Jump Productions will now be visiting us on Tuesday May 21st @ 2pm Lecture Theatre 1 and for all those year 2 students due to meet with Pete Wallace re. summer work experience with Butch Auntie , you'll be seeing him on Friday 17th May @ 10am.

Please note - due to your attendance at the Fantastic Voyage crit, I have arranged with the Faculty Office that you can hand-in your Contextual Studies written assignment between 12 - 1pm.   This means you need to have your written assignments printed and submitted to Turnitin etc. prior to the start of the day, as you'll be going directly from the morning session of the crit to the essay hand-in.

What follows are instructions for your crit presentations and reminders of what you need to present and submit.  Please use your network of creative partners to ensure that everyone has seen this information and understood it. Any queries, please leave a comment and I'll clarify where necessary. In response to one of the scenarios presented to you at time of briefing, you are required to produce a complete 3D animation that demonstrates creatively your ability to interpret, transcribe and represent complex ideas in engaging and dynamic ways.   Your final animation should demonstrate clearly your creative methodology as established by your Year 1 curriculum, i.e. pre-production (production design and art direction via concept art and the structuring of time-based narratives via storyboarding and pre-visualisations), production (modelling, UV layout, texturing & lighting, and animation), and post-production (compositing, digital editing, sound design, public...

Hi all. I know that you're all ridiculously busy with deadlines looming large. Take it from me that sometimes it helps to just spend a couple hours rest away from the glow of a computer screen and do something a little bit different even at this seemingly hard-fought time.  It's the last film of the year and  it only makes sense to finish with something which doesn't require much brainpower.   Can't Stop the Music is campy, cheesy and utterly charming.  It might one be of the biggest back-fires in cinematic history but it's a lot of fun and completely absurd!  Hope to see you there! :-) Can't Stop the Music Directed by Nancy Walker Tuesday 30th April - 5:00pm to 7:00pm Lecture Theatre One

I try to open my scene, it'll open, but there's nothing there. Nothing in the scene viewer, nothing in the outliner, nothing in the hypershade.All I get is this error; file -f -options "v=0;"  -esn false  -ignoreVersion  -typ "mayaBinary" -o "M:/Commission/Commission/scenes/Final_File.mb";addRecentFile("M:/Commission/Commission/scenes/Final_File.mb", "mayaBinary"); // File read in 0 seconds. // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: ramp29 // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: ATP_Blinn_Blue // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: Basic_Blinn // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: Celll_Membrane_Blinn // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: ramp26 // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: ramp30 // // Warning: swatches file depend node not found, icon discarded: ATP...

Let's cut to the chase: on the 3rd, 8th and 10th of May, years 1, 2, 3 of Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation will submit their final projects and the academic year 2012/13 will come to an end.  This, the all-new April edition of the Post With The Most captures the 'about-to-be' of those final year projects.  In the days that follow, our students will experience stress, a few heart-stopping moments, exhaustion and the euphoria of the finish line. Good luck - all of you!  For the rest of us, we can enjoy the luxury of this sneak peak into the students' culminative projects and look forward to the May edition of the CGAA PWTM  showcasing a selection of those final projects in all their bright and shiny entirety! Bring it on. Our year one students' final project sees them commissioned by Dr Peter Klappa, senior lecturer in biosciences at the University of Kent , to create original cg animations from bioscientic scenarios.   Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation ha...