MA Animation (Online)
University of the Arts London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
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Pace
Full time
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Introduction
MA Animation (Online)
MA Animation (Online) explores both the theory and practice of animation across a broad range of experimental visual media.
MA Animation (Online) will give you the tools to express your creative ideas using a range of visual media.
In an era with unparalleled opportunities for skilled visual communicators, and with advancing technologies changing how the moving image is experienced by audiences, we teach animation as an experimental visual practice.
You’ll be encouraged to test boundaries and experiment to find your own creative voice. You’ll also explore meaningful themes while learning how to engage with audiences through multi-disciplinary approaches, and outline critical ideas in visual culture with reference to contemporary, personal, social, ethical, cultural, political, religious and environmental issues.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Term 1
Experimental Critical Practice and Research
This unit aims to support the development of your individual voice as an animation practitioner. You’ll explore a range of technical and conceptual approaches to animation by producing short-form animation tests, and engage in experimental animation process and practice as you develop your distinct visual voice.
This will be underpinned by critical study that significantly expands your understanding of themes that animation can address in a critical context, alongside a technical program that will ensure you’re able to experiment widely with various animation techniques.
Design for Animation, Narrative Structures and Film Language (20 Credits) In this unit, you’ll engage in a program of theoretical seminars that explore the cinematic underpinning of animation culture and practice. This knowledge will form the technical and conceptual basis for subsequent units of the course.
Term 2
Animation Practice and Process
In this unit, you’ll develop and produce a short animation project of up to 3 minutes, or a body of experiments that form a coherent project. Throughout, you’ll explore a range of technical and conceptual approaches to the workflow of professional animation production.
Working from concept, research and development to pre-production, production and post-production, you’ll outline a critical idea or theme that draws reference to contemporary, personal, social, ethical, cultural, political, religious and/or environmental issues.
Collaborative Unit
You’ll have the opportunity to engage in a specific collaboration with a related course or an external partner. Alternatively, you might undertake a work placement.
Terms 3 and 4
Professional Skills and Situating Practice
You’ll bring together the knowledge, skills and experience gained on the course to produce a self-directed, collaborative project and associated critical investigation.
If, during the course of your studies, you are unable to continue and you decide to exit the course, you may get one of these two possible exit awards:
A Postgraduate Certificate will be awarded on successful completion of the first 60 credits.
A Postgraduate Diploma will be awarded on successful completion of the first 120 credits.
Program Outcome
- Lectures/large group learning
- Workshop and seminar learning
- Academic tutorials
- Individual and group critiques
- Individual project work
- Self-Directed learning
- Assessed assignments
- Technical workshops
- Demonstrations
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates of MA Animation (Online) are equipped to work in an increasingly technologically informed and interdisciplinary design world, with in-depth skills across areas such as:
- animation and animation production
- 3D and 2D visual communication
- narrative and sequential image making
- typography
- time-based design.
Throughout your time on the course, you’ll build a portfolio of personal work that will enable you to pursue a successful career as a commercial animator, animation director or other related roles within the field.
Program delivery
MA Animation is in Full Time mode which runs for 45 weeks over 15 months. You will be expected to commit 40 hours per week to study.