Animation MDes
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I wanted a new challenge, something to fire my creativity up, something to stretch my imagination and skills. Taryn Shrigley
You will gain knowledge and skills in the creative application and digital software for animation, experimenting with state of the art equipment and resources that are constantly updated. Teaching and learning You will be taught through a range of teaching and learning methods throughout the programme, in keeping with the aims and emphasis of particular modules. This includes: project work, workshop practice, lectures, demonstrations, seminars, group critiques, work checks, individual tutorials, field study, cultural visits, reports, and assignments.
Autumn
Stage one
Spring Autumn
Stage TWO
Visual Problem Solving
Visual Culture: Theory
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Spring
Start date: You can start this course in September.
Visual Culture: History
Professional Practice
Directed Projects in Animation
Autumn
Fees: This is a resource intensive course, so it costs £8600.
Stage THREE
Duration and mode of study: Full time, 4 years.
About the course This course explores animation to enable you to produce broadcast quality animations for the commercial world, or to communicate your own personal ideas. You will explore sequential and interactive image making, 2D and 3D animation, character development, narrative, timing, creative storytelling, the web, scripting, sound, and the historical and contemporary context of your work.
Visual Exploration
Visual Culture: Extended Essay
Negotiated Study in Animation
Spring
Entry requirements: You will usually need 260 UCAS points from accepted qualifications (see www.derby.ac.uk/entryreqs for a full list).
Animation Practice
Visual Culture: Debates
Personal Practice in Methodologies
Autumn
UCAS code: W618
This is a studio practice based course that incorporates undergraduate and postgraduate study, so you will graduate with a masters degree. You will work on a number of live projects to prepare you for a career in the field of animation.
Study modules
Stage FOUR
Where you will study: Derby Campus, Markeaton Street.
Why choose this course?
Visual Culture: Dissertation
Concept
Spring
Factfile
Options Stage Two You will choose from: Design Strategies Sequential Illustration Digital Moving Images. Additional information We are members of the Association of Illustrators (AOI) and D&AD (Designers and Art Direction). During the course you will be encouraged to enter national competitions to develop your portfolio and CV when you graduate. You will also have the opportunity to exhibit your final year work as part of our degree show. This creative festival allows you to showcase your
Realisation
work and make vital industry contacts, and it’s a really high profile event in the city’s arts calendar. Your career After you’ve graduated from this distinctive course, you will be one step ahead of others in the graduate jobs market. You will achieve a Masters award at the end of four years study without needing to change universities or find postgraduate funding. And you will already have a highly professional and innovative showreel of creative animation work. After graduation your career options will include animation for advertising, film, television and TV titles, games design, animation for web design, as a designer in a creative studio, in educational animation or as a freelance animator. Some students also go on to teaching.