Animation at the University of Arkansas

Various organizations and departments at the University of Arkansas are participating in an effort to address the growing interest in computer generated animations on campus. This website has been developed to provide information about these efforts. If you have information that you would like to place on the website, contact Snow L. Winters snowball@cast.uark.edu

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3D recreation of the St. Francis River, Jeremy Bain

There are a number of classes that are offered for students interested in developing animation skills. These are accessible from the “Classes” link. A proposed animation curriculum is under discussion on campus. Information on the DRAFT curriculum is available here.

Announcements:

-> 3D laser scanning at Tiwanaku, Bolivia and Macchu Picchu, Peru...more

-> New faculty member for the Art Department! Thomas Hapgood will be starting this fall. Hapgood has experience in web design/development and animation. Web classes will be offered and animation development is expected.

-> Motion Capture and the C.R.A.T.E. team...more

-> Animation Certification Curriculum at the U of A...more

Featured Projects:

Rock Art Visualization

With a history rich in Native American heritage, Northwest Arkansas possesses one of the greatest concentrations of rock art sites in eastern North America. Rock art is a valuable archeological resource because it provides abstract depictions of how people lived and how they viewed the world around them. Rock art sites are unique in that the art itself is inextricable from the site. The images are typically painted or etched onto rock surfaces and are therefore exposed to elements of time, erosion, environmental stress, and human vandalism. This makes them among the most fragile of archaeological sites.

More at: http://www.cast.uark.edu/rockart/

C.R.A.T.E. 2004 Project

The 2004 project was the development of 3 animated shorts for High Definition (HD). The subject was to teach science to fourth, fifth and sixth graders through entertaining animation. The subjects, “Chemistry in the Kitchen”, “Baseball Science” and “Batteries”, introduce kids to science with easy to understand dialogue, creative animation and engaging questions.

The project employed 6 students from Fayetteville, Rogers, Eureka Springs and Lowell. These students were Kent Walker - U of A, Ryan Love - U of A, Aaron Linkous - NWACC, Heath Gehlhausen - Rogers High School, Samantha Bratton - Fayetteville High School and Corey Teffetalor - Eureka Springs High School.

More at: http://www.cast.uark.edu/cast/crate/project2004/