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Study Details: MA: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
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 be 2D, 3D and Stop Motion, or hybrid of techniques. You will explore traditional production skills, but the course will encourage you to experiment with cutting edge creative industry developments and new ways of storytelling in collaboration with game and digital technologies.
The course is to help you develop contemporary storytelling and transmedia techniques within your body of work, and/or to deepen your knowledge of a specialist role with a Creative Industry (e.g. Storyboard Artist, Art Director, Character Designer).
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, and Immersive Installation, Theme Park Rides) and offer opportunities to see the value of your transferrable and potentially entrepreneurial skills.
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, 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:
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Please visit our website to find out about available funding – https://www.salford.ac.uk/postgraduate-taught/fees-and-funding
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.
The programme will be delivered across three trimesters using a combination of practical workshops, lectures, and tutorials. Through practical and theoretical modules, you will gain confidence and in-depth understanding of the technologies and techniques used in effective Animation Production and Visual Storytelling.
You will have access to a wide range of state-of-the-art animation resources and equipment including a specialist Stop Motion Room, Wacom Cintiqs, Makerspace, Digi Lab with XR facilities, and craft workshops at New Adelphi. Computer Labs have industry software such as ToonBoom Harmony, Autodesk Maya and Dragon Frame.
If you study part-time your modules will be split across two years.
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