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Under Camera Animation (FINA20036)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
About this subject
Contact information
Summer Term
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
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Celeste Chandler
February
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
June
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
Winter Term
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
Overview
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In this subject each student will make a film using the “under camera animation” technique. This animation technique involves the creation of an animation through frame-by-frame imagery, photographing each frame with a tablet and then combining these photographs into an animated film. The potential processes and materials that can be used to create these animations are broad, and may include drawing, erasure, paper cut-outs, found objects, clay, sand, or paint.
Over the course of the subject students will be introduced to various techniques, materials and skills to create under camera animations. The craft and structure of animation will be considered, as will contemporary and historical under camera techniques, films and film-makers. Students will then apply these understandings and skills in order to develop and create their own “under camera” animated film.
Intended learning outcomes
At the completion of this subject the student should be able:
- to explore and develop skills for drawing and imaging languages pertinent to animation and introduce students to the craft of experimental animation;
- to provide an introduction to the knowledge and skills required to effectively work with the animated image.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will be able to:
- display an awareness of the graphic possibilities of a variety of concepts, materials and practices;
- exhibit evidence of skill development both pictorially and technically as a means of independent image making;
- indicate evidence of individual research in the relevant area of practice;
- demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
- demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas.
Last updated: 9 February 2025