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FAST-TRACK YOUR CAREER IN THE GLOBAL SCREEN INDUSTRY
The Master of Arts Screen: Animation is a unique industry-based training program focussing on high-end animation storytelling skills. Animation is used extensively in film, visual effects, gaming, live events, and virtual and augmented realities. This course will challenge you to develop your craft in a medium with limitless potential for world-building and creative innovation.
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Is the Master of Arts Screen: Animation right for you?
WHY DO THIS COURSE
In this course you will develop your storytelling skills whilst working with producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, production designers, editors, sound designers and musicians to create world-class screen stories realised through an animation lens.
As part of the creative Master of Arts Screen cohort, you will develop networking and team-building skills through intensive collaborative projects and workshops whilst honing your discipline skills through animation-specific coursework and exercises.
In addition to direct support and mentoring from staff, 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:
- experience and/or training in animation, virtual or traditional, or a related discipline such as visual effects (VFX), visual arts or media arts or design;
- current employment in the field, and the desire to take the next step in your creative career by building on your existing skills.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Through an intensive program of practical exercises, projects, 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 the second year, you will work on a major project and a strategically aligned research project.
The course includes a short professional placement, engagement with industry, professional networking opportunities and the potential to connect and engage with your peers on future collaborations. Overall, the course will allow you to consider who you are as a creative practitioner with an agile, adaptable 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 and how it engages with contemporary screen culture and emerging trends and technologies.
Career opportunities
The Master of Arts Screen: Animation will equip you with the specialist knowledge, collaborative experience and skills required in creative leadership roles in animation, visual effects and contemporary screen craft.
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); Sejong Park, Oscar nominee for short animation Birthday Boy (2005); and Bradley Slabe, Annie Award-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted writer and director, AACTA Award-winner for short animation Lost & Found (2018).
Meet Your Lecturers
Krista Jordan
Krista Jordan has over twenty years professional industry experience in creative and commercial filmmaking. Her professional film credits include The Matrix,…
Alexander Hoetzer
Alexander Hoetzer is an experienced visual effects artist with almost 20 years’ experience in a range of screen industries, across…
You will learn to
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theory and practice as a creative leader in animated screen craft
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 and workflows
DISCLAIMER: Changes in circumstances may impact upon the accuracy or currency of information. While AFTRS takes all due care to ensure that the information is accurate, it reserves the right to vary any information described here without notice.
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