Description

Type

Postgraduate
Location

Hatfield

Duration

1 Year
Start date

September

This award enables you to develop creative practical skills in a range of digital processes that are used in Animation and related fields. Within this course you can choose to focus in a particular area of animation such as VFX, 2D animation or 3D animation or even combine the areas to create new forms and ideas from the fusion of techniques and styles.
Within 2D animation you can look at traditional animation techniques and blend these skills and approaches with new digital media to form new content and formats. You will explore the rich heritage of 2D animation and the possibilities of experimentation, both in form and content, that traditional animation has actively encouraged.

Facilities

Hatfield (Herefordshire)

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University of Hertfordshire (College Lane Campus), Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course

Course objectives

The MA Animation degree allows you to develop your 2D, 3D or VFX Digital Animation skills and knowledge to a more advanced level.
Your will develop a personal portfolio in approach, style and vision that looks to the forefront of current practices.
The course allows you to extend your theoretical and contextual understanding of animation, its audiences and media culture.
You will become familiar with professional-level enquiry, research, creative invention, project planning and management practices.
The course is taught within a multi-disciplinary environment of discussion and exploration of ideas.See our MA Animation Vimeo page for showreels and Alumni activity.

Who is it intended for?

Particular emphasis is given to providing you with the skills necessary to further your career as an animator. The course is designed to help you understand and work within the contemporary media environment. Particular attention is given to helping you acquire enquiry and information handling skills, enterprise skills in the development and presentation of ideas, in communicating in the spoken and written word, and addressing particular audiences.

Requirements

A degree in a relevant subject (2.2 minimum), plus a collection of work demonstrating recent engagement and creative activities in your intended study area is normally expected. Accreditation of professional experience may be possible for practitioners without a first degree.

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About the course: I would suggest to avoid especially the degree in Nursing. They are not organised at all. They should focus on what's important for the student. They focus on everything.

What I would highlight: I would suggest to avoid especially the degree in Nursing. They are not organised at all. They should focus on what's important for the student. They focus on everything.

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