University degrees: Postgraduate
Course length: 2 years full-time
Course city: Sydney
The Master of Arts Screen: Animation is a unique industry-based training program. It focusses on the high-end animation storytelling skills required for content that engages audiences and can be viewed on screens and in formats of all kinds. This course will challenge you to explore, develop and hone your creative world building and cinematic craft and take advantage of the growing demand for excellence in animation and story.
WHY DO THIS COURSE
In this course you will develop your storytelling skills whilst working in partnership with producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, production designers, editors, sound designers and musicians to create world-class graduate projects. You will develop networking and team-building skills through intensive collaborative workshops, leading to the realisation of a funded major project in your second year.
Projects will focus on animation as a creative storytelling vehicle able to be integrated into multiple visual storytelling forms. These forms include film, on-demand serialisation, visual effects, gaming, virtual and augmented reality.
AFTRS is committed to providing students with direct industry contact in multiple forms. This includes, but is not limited to, guest lecturers, networking opportunities and industry attachments.
You should have a passion for storytelling, animation and either:
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Through an intensive program of practical exercises and seminars, you will learn how to problem-solve in collaboration with other students to achieve a shared creative brief, and how to approach the iterative workflow that defines the animation development process.
Throughout your first year, you will learn about the inverted production process typical of animation and visual effects projects. Industry practitioners will provide up-to-date professional feedback and training during workshops.
In your second year, you will make a funded creative project using AFTRS’ extensive production facilities. The course concludes with a professional placement.
Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an adaptable, entrepreneurial skill-set. Learning to analyse your process through the development of a practice-based research project, you will understand how your practice is informed by the past – but also how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.
The Master or Arts Screen: Animation will fast-track your journey to the top of the animation field. The course will equip you with the specialist knowledge and collaborative experience to head towards creative leadership roles in animation and visual effects.
Our internationally-acclaimed animation alumni include: Patrick Clair, the Emmy award-winning titles designer for The Crown (2016), The Man in The High Castle (2016) and True Detective (2014); Sandy Widyanata, feature film director, Monument 14 (in development); Ben Wright, layout artist on Animal Logic’s Happy Feet 2 (2001) and Flying Bark Animation’s Maya the Bee Movie (2014); and Sejong Park, Oscar nominee for short animation Birthday Boy (2005).
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a creative leader in animation.
Critically evaluate and apply an understanding of cinematic storytelling to create audience-engaged work for the screen.
Implement a creative practice that synthesises specialist knowledge and an understanding of personal process.
Apply an adaptable skill-set.
Demonstrate an ability to lead and collaborate across diverse projects.
