Master of Arts - Animation

1 year: Duration

18,000 GBP: Price

Rolling admission: Start

Rolling admission: Deadline

Master: Degree

Campus: Format

Farnham / United Kingdom: Location

UCA - University for the Creative Arts: School

Program description

At UCA Farnham, we have a long and renowned history of animation education that all began with Bob Godfrey, the creator of Henry's Cat. With our MA in Animation degree, you may follow in the footsteps of the best.

You will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the animation form while you are a student here, and we will urge you to explore and speculatively when you are creating your work.

This course has a diverse student body with participants from all around the world. Although you will enter the program as an experienced animator, you will be encouraged to experiment, learn new skills, pursue your interests, and share, discuss, and debate ideas.

Along the way, you'll be required to create original, excellent, and thrilling films as well as explore the myriad creative possibilities of frame-by-frame filmmaking, all with the assistance of team members with a stellar reputation across the world.

Our course takes pride in having no established aesthetic and provides access to a broad range of technical resources that cover every aspect of modern animation.

You can choose the Integrated International Pre-Masters, a year-long preparatory programme of study to get you ready for your master's in the UK, improving your speaking and writing skills in English along with your specialty skills, research knowledge, and self-confidence.

Program structure

Term one

Research and Critical Approaches: Animation

You will explore the different modes of research related to the creative process, developing your skills in translating imagined film concepts into treatments, project proposals, screenplays and other forms of communicating film ideas. The first part of this unit is delivered jointly with MA Filmmaking and other film courses

Skills and Development: Animation Practice

Through a series of practical workshops and lectures, you'll cover pre-production and research, sound design, storyboarding and animatics, animation techniques and editing in order to further your own knowledge and technical ability within your own practice.

Term two

During term two you begin developing your MA project, evaluating and testing out the aims of your proposal over a sustained period of self-directed study.

Animation Production

The work undertaken in this unit should build on the research questions you initiated and explored in the previous units. This is the period within which you will undertake the majority of your production work for your film. Throughout the unit you will be encouraged to critically reflect on the development of your project.

Term three

In the third term of the course, you'll apply the knowledge gained through your research to create a final body of work.

Project Delivery and Professional Context: Animation

This allows you to reflect on the work that you've produced so far, and resolve it into a form that allows for completion and delivery of your animated film.

Price

Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 18,000 GBP for international students

We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.

Requirements for applicants

If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.

In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.

For our Master's courses, we usually require that you have successful completion of your Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised university.

English Language requirements for MA/MSc & MBA courses:

IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.5
Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 90
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 176
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Pass, Reading Pass, Speaking Pass, Writing Pass, Total ISE III
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 38, Reading 38, Speaking 38, Writing 38, Total B2 Communicator High Pass

Portfolio requirements

We'll need to examine your written or graphic portfolio for these courses in order to review it. Once you've applied, we'll send you an invitation to submit your portfolio via your applicant portal; more details will be given at that time. This can also be arranged for you if you would prefer to evaluate your work with the Academic Team in person while on campus.

About the university

The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.

Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.

We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.

So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.