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CAA One-A-Day: Island

ISLAND from Max Moertl on Vimeo .

CAA Misc: Le Gardien du Temple

Giant wonderful monster puppets!

CAA One-A-Day: Hybrids

FAO Everyone: Visiting Lecturer / Freelance Creature Designer Tim Napper / Friday 23rd March @ 4.30pm

Some exciting news, ladies and gentlemen...  On Friday 23rd March we have a special guest lecturer paying the CAA base room a visit for some show and tell  - Tim Napper , freelance creature designer and concept artist - the talent behind those extraordinary crystal foxes in Star Wars - The Last Jedi . You can see Tim talking about his designs for Star Wars in this little featurette.  Need I say your attendance is mandatory?   Tim Napper @ 4.30pm / Friday March 23rd / CAA Baseroom

The Supplement: Hiroshi Shinno

"Kyoto-based artist Hiroshi Shinno’s dreamy insect sculptures are... influenced by organic materials, such as leaves and flowers, which Shinno painstakingly creates from resin, then paints them in outlandish colors."

CAA Misc: A Portrait Of The Puppet Master

A Portrait of the Puppet Master as a Young Man from Great Big Story on Vimeo .

The Supplement: Robert Harrison / Menu

You are what you eat?   More about Robert Harrison's portrait project here. Menu - Behind The Scenes MENU - The craft behind the project. from Tim Arnold on Vimeo .

Post With The Most 01/02/2017

I consider myself lucky to be working in an environment as tolerant, inclusive and down-with-diversity as the creative community of Computer Animation Arts .  It makes what's happening out there in the wider world seem so terribly strange and difficult to compute.  First Brexit, then Trump, and now a Muslim Ban. It's like the braying bully boys from the dark days of my comprehensive school are running all the institutions; those white parochial alphas who joked and farted through English class, through art, foreign languages and history, and then brutalised everyone else for getting their heads down and dreaming of better things and a wider world. I take great comfort from this month's Post With The Most, featuring work from young people from a multitude of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.  CAA has a reputation for being a safe place for the neuro-diverse, for all shades of LGBTQ, and for all manner of 'diamonds in the rough' whose potential might ...