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Masters

Royal College of Art

Animation MA

Name: Animation MA
Price: £15600 GBP

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-26

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Animation

Course Summary

Join a community that fosters critical and creative artistic investigation through a diverse range of practices, spanning analogue, digital, and hybrid forms. Develop your authorial voice, situated within contemporary discourse and the field of expanded animation. Participate in a range of industry and academic events, working alongside a cohort informed by different cultures, politics, traditions, and future aspirations. The RCA MA Animation programme fosters critical and creative artistic investigation through a diverse range of practices, spanning analogue, digital, and hybrid forms. Whether you’ve worked in animation for several years or are just starting out, we’ll challenge you to push the boundaries of what’s possible. To find a way of working that resonates with you, you might experiment with analogue and digital tools, from motion capture and XR to pre-cinematic, classical, and stop motion animation. Take part in serious play Rooted in rigorous studio practice and critical inquiry, MA Animation at the RCA nurtures imaginative leadership and diverse material exploration. Here animation is not just movement but thought made visible, emerging from a global cohort whose voices will shape the forms evolving future.

Modules

AcrossRCA (30 Credits) - Core

AcrossRCA is a compulsory 30-credit unit which is delivered as part of all MA programmes. Situated at the core of your RCA experience, this ambitious interdisciplinary College-wide unit supports you in responding to the challenges of complex, uncertain and changing physical and digital worlds. Developed in response to student feedback, AcrossRCA creates an exciting opportunity for you to collaborate meaningfully across programmes.

Animation Forms, Methods & Contexts (45 Credits)

AcrossRCA (30 Credits) - Core

Critical Non/Fiction and Experimental /Expanded Practices (30 Credits)

Making Worlds with Others (15 Credits)

Independent Research Project (60 Credits)

Tuition fees

UK fees

Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£15,600

International fees

Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£39,200

Entry requirements

The programme attracts individuals from a notably wide range of disciplines who wish to explore their fields through animation, including, for example, film, architecture, graphic design, literature, communication arts, performance, art history, computing, illustration, pure and applied sciences and maths or fine art, or a combination of these.

Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world. The selection process considers creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your application and portfolio, your technical animation skills and your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MA standards overall.

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Ranked for eleven consecutive years as the world’s number 1 art & design university, the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London is a specialist creative university. Offering a portfolio of exclusively postgraduate programmes, the RCA enables students to tackle complex issues, push the boundaries of their practice, innovate, build networks and find their voice as creative professionals. The RCA’s world-leading academic staff guide and challenge...more

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