Computer Animation Arts

Out with the old and in with the new!  It's New Year's Eve - what better time to reflect on the creative achievements of  Computer Animation Arts  community in the knowledge that, impressive though they most certainly are, the best is yet to come? For our year one students, the last quarter of 2015 has been about the dual challenge of taking on Autodesk Maya - and winning (more or less) - while developing their design skills as concept artists and production designers.  I'm sharing here a small selection of their final outcomes - their 'What If Metropolises' - extraordinary cityscapes inspired by a diverse range of artists, envisioned first as digital paintings and then transcribed into 3D digital sets.  Intrigued by the nuts and bolts of their creative process? Curious how a complete city might evolve from thumbnail sketch to 3D model? Click on the students' names and visit their individual student blogs for every creative decision taken since briefin...