Computer Animation Arts

A little something else to encourage you towards bold use of colour, dynamic composition and 'super-sizing' some of your worlds... I featured the animated short Contre Temps a while back under the One-A-Day strand.  I want you all to take a moment to watch it here - and take a moment too to feast your eyes on these sumptuous stills.  Be inspired to go big and bold and as cinematic!  

For your reference in terms of thumbnailing and layouts - Mark Kennedy's Temple Of The Seven Golden Camels blog is a great resource, full of practical tips and know-how.  For example, check out his simple 'foreground, midground, background' formula in terms of making dynamic compositions... 

Wednesday, 9th October is your Cinematic Spaces Online Greenlight Review (OGR) Your OGR is to be presented as a single Scribd presentation on your blog, beginning with your name, date, and project title. If you are still yet to get to grips with Scribd go here for some easy-to-follow instructions.  I suggest you save your documents as PDFs before uploading to Scribd, as this should mitigate against formating glitches. When pasting Scribd embed code into your blog, you must first select the HTML mode tab, then switch back to 'Compose' to view the embedded presentation. Your OGR presentations should be uploaded to your blogs by 8pm on Wednesday 9th October. Written feedback will follow as a comments on your OGR post and will take between 1 and 3 days. Cinematic Spaces OGR: What do you need to present? 1) A short illustrated synopsis of your book(s) to include plot, author biography, social and cultural context (i.e. when the book was written and ...

And so it begins, ladies and gentlemen - your first undergraduate project brief, and your first foray into the fast-paced, high-energy culture of Ba Hons CG Arts & Animation!  I'm not alone in looking forward to seeing how you respond to the challenge of your Cinematic Spaces project, but before you get stuck in, just take a few moments to take a look at these examples of previous student work.  By clicking on their names, you'll be able to view all blog posts associated with their respective Cinematic Spaces projects.   Don't get preoccupied with the polish of the final paintings (that will be you too in five weeks), give your attention instead to their methodology - that is, how  they arrived at the final three paintings.  Review their research and reflect on its presentation.  Take time to think about the ways in which the students have organised, presented and published their bodies of work.   I also want you to read some of their film...