Computer Animation Arts

The second part of my photographic record of Benjamin Britten's, Noye's Fludde at the Cirque Jules Verne in Amiens. The production was an ACT collaboration combining the talents of many artists and designers across a wide range of disciplines, including work produced by Computer Animation Arts at UCA Rochester. Click the link below to view the first set of images. Part One - 'In Black and White'   tombeg.blogspot.com behance.net/tombeg vimeo.com/tombeg

This is a message for CAA year one.  This Friday, Meg is going to introduce working with Flash as part of your animation classes in the Baseroom.  You'll need to bring your graphics tablets too!  As per previous sessions, we'll keep you all together in the base room and you should all start at the early times of 10am and 2pm respectively. Use your social networks to spread the word - many thanks! @ Sam & P-G - sorry, but it looks as if you'll be moving offices for a while... 

This is a message for all CAA students:  next week is 'Applicant Week'.  In short, Alan and I will be interviewing applicants for the course all week - mornings & afternoons.  It won't actually effect you in terms of classes, because your lives will go on pretty much as scheduled, but you need to be aware that the CAA baseroom is where the applicants are going to wait prior to their interviews.  Now, this doesn't mean you can't work in there as usual - you can, and I want you to - but if you do work in the CAA base room, you need to be prepared to discuss your work with the applicants and represent the course.  We'll have CAA students working as UCA ambassadors, and I'll be asking them to make our applicants feel at home while they wait.  We'll be showing animated films on the baseroom screen (Pixar stuff etc.), but applicants will be encouraged  to talk with you about your work and the course. I'm looking for volunteers therefore who ...

On Wednesday 14th of January, I traveled with Computer Animation Arts'  Phil Gomm to the historic French city of Amiens, with the purpose of documenting, via the medium of photographic film, dress rehearsals for a performance of Benjamin Britten's, Noye's Fludde at the spectacular, Cirque Jules Verne . Featuring work produced by Computer Animations Arts , the production was an ACT collaboration project  combining Britten's original lo-fi, amateur-based intent, with fascinating modern visual production and design. Keeping in spirit with the analogue approach, I took along some classic photojournalist black and white film and also modern colour film hoping to capture the energy and buzz of the event as faithfully as I could. While it wasn't always easy, I hope these photos at least portray that sense of atmosphere and excitement, felt by all the performers, artists and technicians in the lead-up to the final performance.  ...

Wednesday, 4th February is your 'From Script To Screen' Online Greenlight Review 2 (OGR) Your OGR is to be presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, beginning with your name, date, and project title. Save your documents as PDFs before uploading to Scribd, as this should mitigate against formating glitches. Your OGR presentations should be uploaded to your blogs by 9pm on Wednesday 4th February Written feedback will follow as a comment on your OGR post and will take between 2 - 3 days. From Script To Screen OGR 2: What do you need to present? Final script (as written using Adobe Story ). Completed storyboards (with illustrated camera moves etc. in accordance with storyboarding conventions). Your definitive 'Production Design' influence map. Final concept art for Character(s) / Environment(s) / Prop(s). Your creative partnership archived (so far)  In addition, your OGR should evidence that you are up-to-date with your film reviews an...

Noye's Fludde - Cirque Jules Verne, Amiens, France, 15th January, 2015 As regular followers of the Computer Animation Arts blog and PWTM will know, the students, staff and alumni have been involved in a series of exciting 'extra-curricular' projects , challenging us to think about the contexts for CGI in new and speculative ways.  By way of a fitting finale to these European-funded ACT collaborations , the course worked alongside a multiplicity of different collaborators in the staging and performance of Benjamin Britten's mini opera, Noye's Fludde - an opera intended for largely amateur performers.  Think of it as being a little like a school nativity play - a performance not characterised by high polish or showy stagecraft, but rather by lo-fi charm and ad-hoc energy. With this in mind, we approached our brief (the design and execution of a flat-pack, fold-up ark, rainbow, and various celestial bodies), with the same emphasis on keeping things...