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MA - Master of Arts
University of Salford
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MA - Master of Arts
University of Salford
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
MA - Master of Arts
University of Salford
Part Time
SEP-25
2 years
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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.?
Underpinning the curriculum you will be challenged to investigate and apply sustainable and ethical practices to your productions and processes and explore diversity and inclusivity in their story worlds and characters.?
The Greater Manchester region is one of the key areas of?UK?animation industry production,?with an ?ecosystem of large to small?companies –?from?globally?leading companies such as Factory and Mackinnon & Saunders,?to?smaller?boutique studios like Kilogramme and Flipbook?Studio, with?our MediaCity campus?and CBBC’s HQ?being at the heart of it.?The Region has excellent industry networking opportunities?with Manchester Animation Festival and other regional networking groups like FilmHubNorth.
Relevant undergraduate degree, normally at 2:1 or above, and supporting portfolio and showreel of practice demonstrating strong understanding of visual, technical and sequential skills appropriate to develop content for animation production. Applicants with an undergraduate degree of 2:2 will be considered where a high-quality portfolio of practice is presented. APL of early career animation professionals will also be considered, depending on portfolio of work to date. Applicants will be asked to provide a proposal of study or area of research in support of their application.
Students living in
Domestic
£8,820 per year
Students from Domestic
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£16,380 per year
Students from EU
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£16,380 per year
Students from International
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