Animation Production Major Project - TMA1445

Assessment 1: Project work

Presentation of proposed direction for the major project, which includes aims, objectives, proposed outputs, rationale for project outcomes and time management/project planning.

Project work

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Portfolio

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

The Animation Production Major Project is the culmination of your research, advanced studio practice and professional development. In this module you will initiate a comprehensive research project of your own choosing that demonstrates a level of complexity concomitant to professional contemporary animation practice.
You will build upon your project proposal to develop a final stage framework to realise a set of outcomes and this may include group work subject to negotiation with your specialist supervisor. The Final Major Project will bring together the conceptual, aesthetic, functional and professional features of your work.
Working with a negotiated proposal you will creatively and experimentally test materials, techniques, approaches, and technologies of pre and post production to realise a unique animated practice. The work you make will demonstrate a focused interrogation of animation philosophy informed by technological, social, cultural, ecological, theoretical and professional contexts. You will test your knowledge and understanding of appropriate publishing formats at key stages and present the culmination of your creative innovations in a showcase portfolio. Your individual project may evidence exemplary approaches to filmmaking such as storytelling, character, environment design, voice, image making, drawing, pipeline techniques, rigging, vfx, post production, set design, script-writing, or other digital formats including display, games, user-interaction and/or other hybrid and transdisciplinary forms.
To stimulate intellectual and personal development, and a deep knowledge of advanced contemporary contexts, it is imperative that you work autonomously to identify and creatively test key analogue and/or digital processes. The Major Project provides an opportunity for in-depth research into your unique area of interest. You will work to research, develop, critically reflect, refine and communicate both your personal methodological approach to animation production and your conclusions, seeking an informed resolution to your personal enquiry.

School of Arts and Humanities

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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 Eesthetics (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

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TMA1445 - Animation Production Major Project

Animation Production Major Project

be able to demonstrate advanced subject knowledge through robust research development to produce original outcomes in Animation Production.

be able to assess the currency, relevance and suitability of your project (individual or group) within a defined context.

be able to evidence skills as a reflective practitioner to record and critically analyse progress in order to make decisions, conceptualise complex ideas and initiate new discoveries.

be able to communicate your chosen specialism and evaluate the animated outcomes in an appropriate professional manner. 

be able to evidence comprehensive knowledge of relevant techniques applicable to animation. 

be able to effectively plan, organise and project manage your outcomes, using appropriate formats.