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Under Camera Animation (FINA20036)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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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
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate technical skills in a range experimental animation processes;
- show technical development and proficiency in manipulating a range of under camera animation techniques and digital editing skills;
- produce original visual ideas leading to materially and conceptually developed experimental animations;
- demonstrate independent research in the field of experimental animation;
- evaluate animation processes, creative outcomes and their own development.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should 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: 2 November 2024