Computer Animation Arts

... and this news just in!  Redline International Film Festival have just announced that CAA's Red & The Kingdom Of Sound is the winner in their 'Best Animated Short' category!  Well done to the Kingdom team! Our official laurels! We've got a certificate!

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...

Just wanted to share this recap of some of the creative goings-on here on planet YPGTTO in celebration of the joys of collaboration. The scale and ambition of producing seventeen minutes of animation to accompany live performances of Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra demands we collaborate effectively. The visualisation and realisation of The Overture - the first of our animation's fantastical environments - has seen graduates collaborating with current students, and current students with staff - with exciting results! YPGTTO aka Red & The Kingdom Of Sound  / The Overture / Concept painting by Emily Clarkson YPGTTO  aka  Red & The Kingdom Of Sound   / The Overture / Digital set modelled by Samantha Niemczyk & Deanna Crisbacher YPGTTO  aka  Red & The Kingdom Of Sound   / The Overture / Digital set textured, lit and composited by Alan Postings YPGTTO  aka  Red ...

It's hard to believe next time the Computer Animation Arts PWTM goes live on here, the academic year will be as good as over and our students will be twiddling their thumbs post-submission. (It looks like I've hit that time of life when I'm astounded over-and-over by the swift passing of time and feel it necessary to comment thus!).  Still, we're not there yet - the end is indeed nigh, but with a little under two weeks before final submission, our students have loads to achieve in the remaining time. For our first years, their Fantastic Voyage animations find them operating at the upper-limit of their knowledge and experience.  While this final project represents a culmination of all they've learned since they arrived at UCA back in September 2016, it also demands they 'learn on the job'.  No single curricula can teach a group of cg-newbies how to model a cartoon car, Dr-Seuss-inspired chromosome or Lucienne Day-esque chemotherapy particle, and ye...