Course leaders Andy Bossom – BA (Hons) Computer Games Arts UCA Farnham Course Leader for BA (Hons) Computer Games Arts, Andy Bossom, has been an educator in higher education for over a decade. In 2016 at the University for the Creative Arts (Farnham campus) he set up the CGA Incubator Studio – a pre-revenue enterprise initiative set up to support emergent indie games developers’ delivery of IP to market. As course leader, lecturer and mentor, Andy continues to build upon and forge new links with the games industry to improve the delivery of high quality, industry facing education. He has taught across subject areas such as Interactive Game Play Design, Computer Graphics and Animation, Character Animation, Visual Effects, Digital Narrative and Digital Culture.
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He is a published author and currently writes about the games industry and design for Bloomsbury
Publishing and imprint Fairchild Books. He holds a Master’s degree in 3D Computer Animation and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, and has an ongoing fine art practice. Andy has a background of working in the creative digital industries spanning nearly 20 years, which includes the video games industry on console titles as a 3D character/cut scene animator, working on projects with global companies such as Warner Bros and DC Vertigo. He has also worked within the post-production industry as a compositor and in 3D product pre-visualisation.
Phil Gomm – BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts UCA Rochester Phil has a first-class degree in Three Dimensional Design and a distinction in Masters of Arts in Design. As an active filmmaker, photographer, writer, designer and blogger, Phil’s varied and encompassing creative experience directly enriches his ability to guide and mentor students. His films include ‘Be Amazing’ (2010) and ‘The Making of Medway’ (2010). This is in addition to ‘The Illustrations’ (2009), ‘The Fashion Show’ (2009) and ‘The Story So Far’ (2009) – three short films documenting the Gateway School of Fashion, winner of the Times Higher Education Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Award 2009. Phil was responsible for devising and delivering three diverse animationrelated outcomes under the ‘ACT – A Common Territory’ Interreg funded project: the animation
‘La Creation Du Monde’, screened at the Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France; the Requiem Seven sculptures, exhibited at the Royal Opera House’s High House Production Park, Purfleet; and kinetic props and scenery for Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, as performed at Cirque Jules Verne, Amiens, Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne and Comberton Village College, Cambridge. Phil is currently producing a new series of animated content as part of ‘ONE is More’, a second cycle of Interreg funded projects, including an animated version of Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra, to be screened live at various European performances of Britten’s classical work from September 2017 onwards. His most recent exhibition was Semblance (2016) in Whitstable, which continues his fascination with longexposure photography and early computergenerated imagery.