Oliver Thacker, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester

Running alongside the Collaboration Project, we have the Character design Project. I have been given the character of an Alchemist. Fantasy Alchemist (from The Witcher Series) The Alchemist Michał Sędziwój, a painting from Julian Tuwim’s collection, 19th century, photo: Museum of Literature / East News For those who don't know, an alchemist in a nutshell was a scientist before science was how it is today. What they are most known for is claiming to; Transmute Lead or other metals into Gold, Make a person immortal, Cure any disease and Make a universal Solvent. Needless to say, their craft more more fantasy than reality. There have been no confirmed cases of someone turning lead into gold, or someone curing all known diseases with a single elixir. I was surprised to see that Sir Issac Newton, one of the world's most influential scientists, studied Alchemy (along side other studies considered to be Occult). As a character,

Running (for some reason the render came out looking orange. I rendered this while in class so maybe it was the computer?) Bowling Jumping Flying Superhero                                                         And... The Superhero Landing

So its a new year and we have been set a new project titled 'Collaboration'. This project is unlike the others we have been set before, in this project we are working in teams. Over the past week we have been introduced to the project, we were given an envelope containing the start of a title, for example 'Wrong reaction to...' or 'Forgotten or Failed...'. My group was given 'How to cheat at...'. What we did first was list down ways to finish the title. We thought 'How to cheat at the Olympics' could be a fun idea, I personally suggested that the Pole Vault event could be a good place to start as someone could attach a big spring to the end of their pole and use that to get higher. It is also important to mention that this project is meant to be comedic in nature, as so most of the things we came up with needed to be funny. Eventually we settled on a title: 'How to Cheat at Fighting'. It would be about a school student bumping into the