Computer Animation Arts

Okay... so how about a CAA field trip to Florence, Italy in Reading Week, February 2018?  The cost is likely to be somewhere between £350 - £380 - £400 (blame Brexit some more!) and, in common with last year's trip to Rome, I'll be pushing for the price to include admission to the top sights and some group meal opportunities too.  I'm at the very earliest stages of organising the 2018 Field Trip, and as always, it begins with your interest converting into student numbers, so I can get a more meaningful quote.  In the first instance, you have a simple job to do - year 1, 2, 3 or alumni - share this notification widely and register your interest by leaving a comment on this post.  We're going to need around the 40 persons mark to get this to happen as cheaply as possible, so I look forward to hearing from you all.  For you reference, the dates would be February 26th - March 2nd.

And we're off!  Meet the first five of CAA's newest recruits.  Do the community-minded thing - add these guys to your Blogger reading lists and if they're posting their Summer project stuff already, go say hi and be a force for good! Eleanor Luckett @ https://eleanorl-caa.blogspot.co.uk Megan Robson @ https://megan-robson.blogspot.co.uk Tia Whitehead @ https://tiawhitehead.blogspot.co.uk Juanjpo Estany @ http://jean-est.blogspot.com Dante Coe @ https://dantecoe.blogspot.co.uk

In my ongoing attempts to awaken you softly to the reality of your imminent return to undergraduate study - and some of the biggest creative challenges of your lives thus far! - I'd like you all to put a blogpost together outlining your idea(s) for your minor project (and major project obviously, if you're considering a year long adventure in CGI).  Some of you have clear ideas about your year three projects, as they build on your Adaptation submissions - but nonetheless, I'd like to see your proposals - however 'half-built' or under-construction - way in advance of the start of term.  Create a proposal post - ensure it's specific, in so much as it includes visual reference - and when you're done, email me at pgomm@ucreative.ac.uk to tell me you've got something ready.  I look forward to your proposals! Oh - and get them ready by Monday at the latest please :)

Okay, I get it - you're still in the holiday mood, and the last thing you want is a prompt in regards to writing up your dissertation structures into a draft... but September will be upon us in no time, and the deadline for the submission of your drafts is Friday October 27th . We have dissertation tutorials together - and I don't want these to consist of me asking you if you've made and progress, and you saying 'No'.  You've all got your chapter structures, you've had loads of feedback from Kath, Mavernie and myself, and really there's not a huge amount left to say about your intentions for dissertations.  We need to use our time getting into the nitty-gritty of what you've actually written and helping finesse your arguments further.  If you needed to be reading more in order to deliver the potential of your respective structures, I'm relying on the fact that you've been doing just that, as this is not the bit of this process with wh...

Silly Robots from YLLW on Vimeo .

Yep.

'The world's first entirely oil-painted film'...

Oh, what camp, ironic marvellousness is this?  For any soon-to-be year 2 students enjoying this, welcome to the wonderful world of postmodernism! (Now where did I put my flares?)

So cute!

School may indeed be out for Summer, but here on on Planet CAA , time is of the essence as work continues on our adaptation of Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra ( 'YPGTTO') as part of our collaboration with an Orchestra Network for Europe (ONE), a network of classical symphony orchestras encompassing France, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. This special edition of the Computer Animation Arts ' Post With The Most celebrates our work with ONE and catches up with all the latest from the production of the YPGTTO animation .  For those of you not already familiar with the project, a quick recap: Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra was written in 1945 and serves as a tour of the various instrument groups in the symphony orchestra and is the go-to standard for introducing children to classical music. Our animated adaptation of YPGTTO will be screened with live acc...