Can I apply for studying in animation major in Britain, America and Japan at the same time? It is also very important for students to choose countries and colleges after they have chosen their favorite majors for further study. Even in the same professional field, different countries and colleges often have different emphasis on style. This means that when we want to apply for two or more countries at the same time, we are likely to face more difficulties.

　　 Can I apply for studying in animation major in Britain, America and Japan at the same time?

The inherent impression of most students studying animation in Britain, America and Japan seems to be that the United States is a mature commercial cinema; Japanese small cost studio dramas that focus on storytelling rather than techniques; Britain is a cold and obscure experimental school. These views seem to conform to the public impression of animation works in Britain, the United States, Japan and the three countries, but in fact, are the institutions in these three countries really focusing on the style of animation higher education? If you want to apply for animation major in two countries at the same time, is it feasible? Let's introduce it today.

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Although CalArts has a huge commercial animation system as the support, the emphasis on the artistry and experimental innovation of animation is no less than that of other countries. Compared with RCA's completely academic research style, CalArts is more likely to provide students with a platform that is both art experimental and commercial, and the project output oriented curriculum also reflects the pragmatism principle of CalArts' experimental animation specialty to a certain extent.

by comparison, Royal College of Art RCA's academic style of animation can be said to be the most rigorous. But it also takes into account the experimental and pioneering exploration. The special but logical classification of research directions takes into account the students' personal research interests, and also ensures the ecological environment of "letting a hundred flowers bloom" in the animation major of the college.

The animation majors at Musashino University of Arts in Japan should be the most surprising, almost completely overturning our inherent concept of Japanese animation. Among the three art colleges that Musashino University of Arts has compared today, it has almost reached the acme of interdisciplinary concepts, and even broadened the concept of animation to "image". While the tutor led academic research framework is similar to the domestic graduate system, it also ensures that students can find their own direction in such a highly open research atmosphere.

Through the analysis of these three universities, we should also realize that in fact, many times our feelings of "labeling" the inherent style of a certain country or culture are not necessarily accurate. In Japan, which was originally the most commercial assembly line in animation production, the experimental nature of academic animation in colleges and universities is far more than that in Europe and the United States, while in the American animation market dominated by capital, academies can still give good consideration to the artistry of animation.

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