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Study Details: 1-2 Years
Our MA in Animation is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to apply innovative and efficient production processes into your animation projects which could utilise 2D, 3D, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion, or Virtual Production technologies and workflows. You will explore traditional production techniques and visual storytelling skills, but the course will encourage you to experiment with cutting edge creative industry developments and new ways of creating content and engaging audiences.
The course will help you develop contemporary storytelling and transmedia techniques within your body of work and as a director, and/or to deepen your knowledge of a specialist role with a Creative Industry (e.g. Storyboard Artist, Art Director, Character Designer, Rigging Artist).
As a future facing programme of study, we will encourage you through collaboration, to explore contemporary ‘expanded cinema’ (i.e. Extended Reality (XR) experiences, Projection Mapping, Motion Capture, Immersive Installation and Theatre ) and offer opportunities to see the value of your transferrable and potentially entrepreneurial skills.
Underpinning the curriculum, you will be challenged to investigate and apply sustainable and ethical practices to your productions and processes and explore diversity and inclusivity in their story worlds and characters.
This is an interdisciplinary course open to students from a wide range of backgrounds, however, a previous academic or industry experience in any of the following disciplines would be beneficial: animation, media studies, film production, game art and design and visual effects.
Applicants from other disciplines or professional backgrounds will also be considered if they provide evidence of interest and experience of Animation Production or Visual Development for Animation.
All applicants will be able to demonstrate that they:
Have knowledge of Animation or related subjects
(e.g. Post and VFX, XR & Immersive, Design for Games, Film Production)
Have fundamental knowledge of animation techniques and workflows
Are highly motivated
Are ready to work flexibly and independently
Prepared to work in a team
Are effective problem solvers
This will be evaluated by:
1. A portfolio/showreel
and
2. A proposal of self-directed study that demonstrates an area of personal development or creative aspirations that you want to pursue within the field of animation whilst on the course, e.g.
To develop a short animation for a film festival or to pitch an idea for further funding after the MA
Worldbuilding / concept art portfolio development for career development / industry
Technical enquiry into pipelines and workflows of animation production
To explore immersive storytelling using VR technology
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Our MA in Animation is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to apply innovative and efficient production processes into your professional animation projects as you go forward in your career.
Graduates showing strong academic and research skills can pursue a further academic research path through our doctoral (PhD) programmes on a full-time or part-time basis subject to a satisfactory proposal.
Trimester One
Animation Exploration
Professional and Cultural Contexts
Trimester Two
Pipelines and Technologies
Exploring Collaborative Practice
Trimester Three
Major Project
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