Next week Swansea University will host the 6th Swansea Animation Day – which is now actually a week long conference rather than a day. I’ve been chatting to the School of Digital Media at the Swansea Institute (SIHE) about developing projects based in anatomy for their students. The quality of work that some of their graduates put out is stunning, and it would be fun and useful to incorporate some of their thinking and their skills into teaching medicine.
So next week I’ll try to go to the SAND Science day for work, and to the SAND Games & Commercial day for my own interest, and find out about some of the trends in game development. EA will be there (the makers of Battlefield 2 – my current game of choice although my scoring doesn’t really reflect that!), as will the Havok guys (the physics engine used in HalfLife 2), Blitz and Codemasters. It should be impressive. It’s a shame I won’t be able to make any of the evening anime screenings.
