Animation Theory in Practice 3 - THD1461

Assessment 1: Portfolio (including examples)

Formative assessment is at the end term 1 and midterm 2 and will consist of a portfolio of triangulated work in progress.

Portfolio

Assessment 1: Dissertation/Thesis/Design Thesis (Written)

Dissertation, monograph, extended essays, illustrated reports, special studies, exhibition proposals as outlined in the outline syllabus

Dissertation

Assessment 2: Presentation

A verbal presentation, relating to aspects of the outline syllabus

Presentation

This module is specifically designed to unfold throughout the final year, reflecting the theoretical, technical and professional issues appropriate to your practice. The module is intended to serve as a critical and diagnostic tool with which to examine, contextualise and extend your studio work, as well as to determine its mode of exhibition. A continual process of experimentation, reflection, research and analysis will help you to identify connections between ideas, methods, materials and media, and to assist in the development of your practical work. A written assignment, and an exhibition proposal will facilitate a rich and holistic engagement with your final year studio project. It concludes the undergraduate programme Animation Theory in Practice.

School of Arts and Humanities

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The inherent nature of advanced animation will demand a wide reading, including books, journals, digital materials and International regulatory standards to reflect an individualised to project work.
Sample reading lists are currently being updated and will be available on the University’s VLE..
Festival Archive:
http://www.animation-festivals.com
Journals:
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal - Buchan, Suzanne (SAGE)
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/anm
Animation Practice, Production &amp; Process - Wells, Paul (Itellect)
https://www.intellectbooks.com/animation-practice-production-process
Society for Animation Studies:
https://www.animationstudies.org/v3/
https://journal.animationstudies.org
https://blog.animationstudies.org
International Journal of Film and Media Arts
http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/index

Books:
Batkin, J (2017) – Identity in Animation
Beckman, Karen Redrobe (2014) - Animating film theory
Betancourt, Michael (2013) - The history of motion graphics: from avant-garde to industry in the United States
Bolter, J (2000) - Remediation: Understanding New Media
Brown, Steven T. (2006) - Cinema anime: critical engagements with Japanese animation
Buchan, Suzanne (2006) - Animated Worlds
Buchan, Suzanne (2013) - Pervasive animation
Buchan, Suzanne (2011) - The Quay Brothers: into a metaphysical playroom
Bukatman, S. (2003) - Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
Bukatman, S. (2012) - The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
Chodenko, A. (1991) - The Illusion of Life - Essays on Animation
Chodenko, A. (2007) - The Illusion of Life II - Essays on Animation
Crafton, D. (2012) - Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation
DiSalvo, Carl (2012) - Adversarial design
Dobson et al (2018) - The Animation Studies Reader
Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona (2001) - Design noir: the secret life of electronic objects
Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona (2013) - Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming
Dunne, Anthony (2005) - Hertzian tales: electronic products, aesthetic experience, and critical design (2nd ed)
Fry, Tony (2011) - Design as politics
Furniss, M. (2009) - Animation - Art and Industry: A Reader
Furniss, Maureen (2007) - Art in motion: animation aesthetics (Revised ed)
Harris, M. et al (2019) – Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital.
Hermano, Mara and Somerson, Roseanne (2013) - Art of Critical Making: Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice (1st ed)
Jackson, R. - Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
Jenkins, E. (2016) - Special affects : cinema, animation and the translation of consumer culture
Klein, N. (2004) - From the Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects
Lamarre, T. (2009) - Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation
Lamarre, T. (2018) - The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
Leslie, Esther (2002) - Hollywood flatlands: animation, critical theory and the avant-garde
Manovich, Lev (2001) - The language of new media
Manovich, L. (2013) - Software Takes Command
McCarthy, Steven J., (2013) - The designer as author, producer, activist, entrepreneur, curator &amp; collaborator : new models for communicating
McQuiston, Liz (2004) - Graphic agitation 2: social and political graphics in the digital age
McQuiston, Liz (1993) - Graphic agitation: social and political graphics since the sixties
Mullarkey, J (2008) - Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image
Pallant, C. (2017) - Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function
Pilling, J. (1998) - A Reader in Animation Studies
 
Pikkov, U. (2010) - ANIMASOPHY
Rosing, L. (2017) Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation
Smith V. &amp; Hamlyn, N. (2018) Experimental and Expanded Animation.
Strauven, W. (2006) - The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
Torre, D. (2019) Animation - Process, Cognition and Actuality
Wells, Paul and Hardstaff, Johnny (2008) - Re-imagining animation: the changing face of the moving image
Wells, Paul (2009) - The animated bestiary: animals, cartoons, and culture
Wells, Paul (1998) - Understanding animation
Wells, Paul (2002) -  Animation: Genre and Authorship (Short Cuts)
Wolf, Mark J.P. (2013) - Building imaginary worlds the theory and history of subcreation

Multimedia

THD1461 - Animation Theory in Practice 3

Animation Theory in Practice 3

be able to present your ideas clearly and coherently.

be able to appreciate the differences between propositional and tacit forms of understanding in the context of animation.

be able to direct and oversee your own learning strategy in order to consider arguments, assumptions, and abstract concepts, in order to make judgements, frame appropriate questions, and engage with a range of solutions to a problem.

be able to synthesise information from apposite sources in order to establish an appropriate framework that determines a direction for your practice.

be able to critically review, appraise and consolidate final outcomes derived from major project. 

be able to make informed connections between complex areas of knowledge, through a process of critical enquiry.

be able to devise and sustain arguments in a variety of formats in order to fully represent the scope of your practice.