Computer Animation Arts

This month's Computer Animation Arts Post With The Most is like browsing the shelves of a library. Indeed, we have so many student 'Art Ofs' for your leisurely perusal you might need two cups of tea and an entire packet of biscuits to see everything on here. Art Ofs are our way of celebrating the full scope of creative work undertaken by our students as they take their ideas from those first nebulous projections in their mind's eye to something concrete, polished, fit-for-purpose, professionalised and shareable.  Let them serve as a rebuff to those funny ideas some people have that on a course specialising in production for 3D animation it's 'the computer' doing all the work!  Ha! Take even the shortest time to flip through some of these publications and you'll see at once our students are formidably powerful in terms of imagining story worlds and their respective inhabitants - oh yeah, and they can build and animate all this stuff too! ...

So there I was, flicking through a recent edition of Time Out magazine, when all at once I thought, 'Wait a minute! I recognise that face!' (And everything else for that matter!).  Sure enough it was one of Computer Animation Arts ' life-models, the wonderful, splendiferous and supremely bonkers Robin George - bearing his all (again!) in a Time Out centrefold and giving the inside track on his life and times as a nude model.  There is literally nothing Robin won't do when it comes to ensuring his life-drawing sessions are dynamic and experiential for our students; sometimes it's swords and violins, other times it's fright-wigs, top-hats and face-paint.  Robin is often the face (& body!) of our Halloween Specials wherein students are confronted by the dark denizens of Robin's imagination.  I do recall one class in which he ended up with his be-wigged head stuffed into an item of hand-luggage - business as usual on Computer Animation Arts !  You ...