3D Avatar workshop

Students are creating the most amazing 3d avatars this morning with Maya  and Mud box software - this morning has seen them work with Studio Distract to learn the basics of the program whilst creating a basic avatar to add their voice to. This afternoon will see them add text and performance capture to the head.

Ed Atkins workshop

So we're on our way to a workshop with Ed Atkins today -working with Studio Distract and Manchester International Festival 2015 at Manchester Gallery.  More later ....!

Top places to visit over summer ....part 1.

Ian Brown famously said that "Manchester has everything except a beach" so if you are an art student holidaying at home this summer, try ticking off as many of these as you can & adding them to your sketchbook . All research is good research !

1. The Manchester International Festival 2015 is happening between 2- 19th July with premiered works from far & wide. Check out the festival tent in Albert square for fab food & celeb spotting   http://www.mif.co.uk/events/

2. John Rylands Library - Manchester's own mini Hogwarts. Beautiful architecture , carvings & mysterious corners
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands FREE

3. The Royal Exchange Theatre - a 7 sided space capsule theatre in the round within the old Exchange building. Free to enter the building istelf - visitors can walk around the outside of the theatre & stop for coffee, lunch or gaze at the pink & gold columns, http://www.royalexchange.co.uk FREE


4. Step back in time to see the Eygptology & Dinosaurs sections at Manchester Museum http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/. FREE

5. The People's Museum - see how Manchester shaped the world through graphics of protest & politics http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/main-gallery-one-4/

6. Experience the peace of the Jewish Museum on Cheetham Hill and seee the beautiful stained glass & the Torah scrolls. They have a thought provoking exhibition of the Holocaust too. http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/whats-on