On Friday, July 12th 2013 at Grays Civic Hall, Essex, the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne will be performing a programme of music on a theme of 'rhythm'. The programme of music will explore ideas of rhythm in classical music and in the celebrated jazz of the late Dave Bruebeck. The director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Marc Feldman, has challenged the CGAA community to work collaboratively to create an original work of animation designed to accompany his orchestra's performance of one particular example of early twentieth century music that blends classical and jazz rhythms to exciting effect. The animation will be rear projected onto a large screen measuring 8.5m wide by 6.2m high, in front of which the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne will perform live. Read Less

Ba (Hons) CG Arts & Animation is a young, innovative, art and design based course. Our curriculum sits within an art and design framework with a ‘concept first’ emphasis. In order to design successfully for film or game, students must understand narrative and its conventions.

Students are taught Autodesk Maya by an alumnus of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, West Hollywood. Curricula includes life-drawing, concept art and digital painting, texture painting, animation, digital editing, story-development, and character design.

The course aims to produce students able to adapt readily to the demands of self-initiated or commissioned project work. It focuses on developing a high level of technical abilities in combination with the critical, creative and intellectual attributes required for the generation of distinctive CGI Read Less