For 40 years, the Royal College of Art has been a leader in auteur animation. To celebrate this legacy, this new short course invites you to discover animation practice introduced through the lens of our world-leading critical research. It is designed for aspiring, emerging, and developing participants interested in broadening their knowledge and skills through animation practice.
Students will gain a conceptually enriched understanding of animation grounded in the practice of making and discovery, through the process of practical, critical and reflective research.
Expert-led sessions will guide participants through collaborative engagement with sequential processes, expanding ideas about what animation is, and what it can do. We welcome cross-disciplinary graduates, junior creatives, established artists, and anyone with an interest in how animation is developed and made.
Cross-disciplinary graduates wanting to explore animation.
Junior or emerging creatives, or production professionals wanting to work with moving image.
Artists keen to explore moving image into their practice.
Anyone with an interest in the way animation is developed and made.
Graduates interested in moving towards postgraduate or Master's study in animation.
This is a short course designed to help you transition from undergraduate / industry into postgraduate Animation study. This course will give you a stimulating, creative and thought provoking insight into the critical thinking and practice skills necessary.
You will learn:
Primary and secondary research relationship to ideas development
To create short animated sequences using a variety of media
An introduction to sound and editing to picture
The importance of unpacking animation structure through animatics
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