This certificate program is designed to prepare individuals for entry-level employment in careers where visual communication is the primary objective. Photographers in all disciplines may find this program appropriate for upgrading their skills.
The Animation Major will familiarise students with the terms, concepts, techniques, processes, skills, technologies, and theoretical underpinning of animation and interactive animation for multimedia production together with other forms of visual communication relevant to the emerging field of games studies.
Courses that are in majors, sub-majors and/or minorsCourse name Area +
Catalogue No. Units Level
Major
Introduction to Digital Media INFT 1014 4.5 1
Introduction to Film and Television Production INFT 1015 4.5 1
2D Computer Animation INFT 2003 4.5 2
3D Computer Animation INFT 3011 4.5 2
Intermediate 3D Computer Animation INFT 2059 4.5 2
Students select one of the following courses:
Multimedia Desktop Video INFT 1009 4.5 2
Music Sound Studio PERF 2009 4.5 2
From Mickey to Manga: Understanding the Animated Image COMM 2043 4.5 2
Students select two of the following courses:
Advanced 3D Animation INFT 3013 4.5 3
Advanced Production Project 1 COMM 3017 4.5 3
Games: Industry, Culture and Aesthetics COMM 2063 4.5 3
Graduate Profile
The race technically able to:
-mastering traditional techniques and advanced digital animation in two and three dimensions
organize, design and develop their own animations
pieces-creating animated graphics applied to the production of audiovisual and advertising
-inserted into the structure of audiovisual production in our country and the region by carrying out publicity and animation for television and cinema
-develop animations for the Internet.
Job
The university provides support services for advanced students and graduates to facilitate their job. These services include information and contacts for job opportunities, internships rental management, training in drafting and presenting a history of selection at work, advice on business creation and inclusion of data from graduates in databases of major Selector personnel of our country.
Syllabus
The curriculum provides comprehensive training in the area of computer animation and meets the formal aspects of visual communication and graphic narrative. From group and individual work, and using the most advanced technology, to construct objects, 3D characters and virtual scenarios using digital graphics.
Students develop a final project in integrating creativity, experimentation, technical development of animation and video postproduction.
Agreements and awards
Universidad ORT Uruguay, as part of World ORT, the largest non-government education network in the world, backed grants diplomas in over 50 countries.
By its very nature, animation is a vibrant and ever-changing medium – in a constant state of flux, both technically and creatively – and the programme at Edinburgh College of Art aims to reflect this.
Over the years the College’s animation department has enjoyed considerable success in producing innovative and groundbreaking work. Not only have students and staff consistently won awards and distinctions at festivals and competitions throughout the world, but their work has been frequently screened on television in the UK and abroad.
In 2005 the industry’s skills council Skillset endorsed Edinburgh College of Art in collaboration with Napier University, as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in screen education and training and a member of the UK-wide network of Screen Academies. Visit the Screen Academy Scotland website for further information.
One of the strengths of the department is its location within an art college and we encourage our students to take advantage of the unique opportunities and challenges provided by an environment devoted to design, applied arts, visual communication and contemporary art practice. We also promote collaboration with individuals and groups from outside the College and, as an example, have had recent projects involving postgraduate sound design students from the University of Edinburgh.
We regard our students as filmmakers as much as animators. We have no strict definition of what animation must or should be, for the medium has a natural vitality and capacity to surprise and intrigue that makes it the perfect vehicle for those with ideas and imagination.
The MA and MFA programmes are likely to appeal to independently minded individuals with some previous experience of animation, who wish to develop their work in a new or experimental direction.