As climate change threatens our future, how do we come to terms with the end of our existence? When the Tides Went Down is a short animation exploring our different responses to these turbulent times. When the Tides Went Down was made in collaboration with Screen South, the BBC and the Arts Council New Creatives project.

The ‘Marcus & The Mystery of the Pudding Pans’ animation and exhibition is a Heritage-Lottery-funded project and represents a collaboration between the Seaside Museum Herne Bay, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, Rochester and Herne Bay Junior School. The animation was produced as a DVD for schools to enrich their respective curricula and to help encourage children to develop an interest in local history. - More information

Four unique 3D visualisations generated note-by-note from Hector Berlioz’s music for Romeo & Juliet (1839) and datasets that pertain thematically to each of the four pieces of Berlioz's score. The resulting animations were screened with live orchestration in venues in France and Poland.

Set in a dying industrial town, //_sleeper tells the story of Frank, a recluse who wakes each day to a strange anomaly on the horizon. Frank sits and watches daily as the anomaly moves in the distance, with his computers and cameras trained on the strangeness on the edge of town.

//_sleeper premiered at the BFI Southbank on November 19th, and then went on to play on BBC Four on December 2nd. Since then, the film has been available on BBC iPlayer and BFI Player.

Red & The Kingdom Of Sound in an award winning animated short which visualises the symphony orchestra as a fantastical realm comprising fifteen different architectural districts deriving from the different musical instruments of the orchestra. The animation was devised to be screened with live accompaniment by symphony orchestras. Live performances took place in France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia, and the film is to be shared with European schools on DVD as part of their respective music curricula. - More information

In 2016, graduates from BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts - Rochester were invited to respond to the winning artworks of the MASK Prize, a creative competition for schools and young people under the age of 25 in Kenya. Each animator worked with one selected artwork and from it produced a short animation. This latest collaborative project was a unique creative exchange between young artists in Kenya and recently graduated animators in the UK. The resulting exhibition, Transformation/Mabadiliko, showcased the final animations alongside the artworks that inspired them. First exhibited at UCA Rochester's Zandra Rhodes Gallery, the Mabadiliko animations went on to be showcased at the Turner Contemporary, Margate. - More information

Working alongside a group of collaborators to stage and perform of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde - an opera intended for largely amateur performers and characterised by lo-fi charm and ad-hoc energy. The brief was the design and execution of a flat-pack, fold-up ark, rainbow, and various celestial bodies - with the same emphasis on keeping things very simple and to look as if children might have created them in an arts and crafts lesson.

Noye's Fludde was performed first at the Cirque Jules Verne in Amiens, France, followed by performances at the Théâtre impérial, Compiègne, and Comberton Village College, Cambridge. - More information

At a performance of Verdi's Requiem, conductor Arie van Beek agreed to wear motion sensors for the ninety minutes of the performance. The data produced from Arie's moment-to-moment movement was captured and, working with a specialised team, the numercial data was turned into a series of seven curves each representing the seven movements of the Requiem. The seven digital curves were then translated into seven physical sculptures, laser-cut from steel, and sited in the gardens of the Royal Opera House's High House Production Park, Purfleet. - More information

Over the course of ten consecutive days, students, staff and alumni of BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, Rochester, UK were challenged to produce synesthetic digital paintings in response to Darius Milhaud’s La création du monde. Participants were asked to visualize the shifting moods and rhythms of Milhaud’s jazz inspired composition through colour, texture, shape, and form. The resulting 'speed paintings' were animated and edited to the music of the La Création du Monde, ready to play alongside of series live orchestras performances across Europe & Alaska More information

A collaboration between undergraduates on BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts and the Bioscience Department at the University of Kent to help convey biological processes accurately while considering ways in which complex ideas might be represented engagingly to different audiences through animation. - More information