MA Animation
Master
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
1 Year
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Different dates available
The MA Animation degree allows you to develop your 2D or 3D Digital Animation skills and knowledge to a more advanced level.
You will produce a personal portfolio which in approach, style and vision 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.
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Careers
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.
Work placement
There are work related learning opportunities on this course, all students complete a live external brief as part of their coursework.
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.
A minimum IELTS score of 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in any component (or equivalent) is required for those whose first language is not English.
We are a Rookies Certified School.
Why choose this course?
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 2D animation, 3D animation or 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.
3D digital animation has become the most popular form of animated imagery over the past decade,used by more experimental practitioners who question the appearance, form and uses it has in present-day media. In this form, you will challenge your preconceptions of what 2D or 3D animation can do, which helps you become an innovator in the field. You will have the opportunity to explore the range of possibilities available to the practitioner, mixing technical knowledge of the subject with the creative freedom that an understanding of the theory and context of new media practices brings.
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Subjects
- Animation
- Project
- Media
- Discussions
- Students
- Workshops
- Developed
- Challenged
- Seminars
- Postgraduate
Course programme
On this programme teaching and learning emphasises enquiry led project work, developing the kind of independence and autonomy that is appropriate for postgraduate education. Lectures, seminars and other discussions bring students together in multi-disciplinary groups where ideas are shared, challenged, developed. Workshops and other activities develop specific discipline centered skills and understandings while tutorials develop individual study trajectories and responses to assignment tasks and briefs. Much of the time students are engaged in self-managed independent study, undertaking enquiries and research, developing skills, inventing and developing ideas, realizing project outcomes, exploring the cultural resonance of their work.
All students on the PG Media programme engage in an interdisciplinary project as a part of their MA study, giving them an opportunity to work with students from other disciplines in an experimental and creative way.
There are work related learning opportunities on this course, all students complete a live external brief as part of their coursework.
Level 7
Module
- Creative Economies
- Major Study: Animation
- Research and Enquiry
- Practice 1: Media
- Practice 2: Media
- Media Discourses
- Research and Enquiry (Online)
- Creative Economies (Online)
Additional information
Full time - £13950 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time - £1160 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students Fee
Full time - £13950 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time - £1160 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
MA Animation