How about studying animation in RCA UK? Although animation is not the most famous major of RCA, RCA, as a top art school that occupies the first place in the global art education world all the year round, is still commendable in the subject characteristics and curriculum settings of animation, and has a unique and distinctive school style. Today, let's take a look at the RCA animation major in Britain.

　　 How about studying animation in RCA UK?

RCA has only set up a MA course for animation major. On the homepage of the professional course introduction, the first sentence that came into sight showed RCA's high hopes and ambitions for this major in the animation field - "Be a game changer", becoming a game changer.

Exhibition of works of MA students majoring in RCA animation

In the detailed professional introduction, RCA Royal College of Art It also highly emphasizes the artistic practicality and adventure of this animation graduate major. Especially adventurous, RCA practices in this plan and expands the definition of animation as an artistic form of presentation infinitely.

Whether from the technology, form, presentation platform of hardware, or the abstract concept, style, in this graduate project, colleges and universities hope that students can make practice and change within their ability, and truly become people who break the "rules of the game" of animation.

RCA Animation MA

Although it highly emphasizes the professional adventure, it still follows the RCA's rigorous and meticulous academic style as always in terms of the detailed direction and classification. When applying for a major, students must choose from experimental animation, documentary animation and narrative animation.

Although many students may have known about the three directions of RCA animation, in fact, many students do not understand the reasons for RCA classified animation. We also often encounter students struggling with the differences in these three directions when applying.

Exhibition of works of MA students majoring in RCA animation

In fact, the classification of animation in these three directions is a typical content oriented classification, that is, the difference of animation research style is determined by the content that the creators want to express. Such classification is not common, but it is very wise.

In fact, animation is different from other art majors. Due to the characteristics of its digital media, compared with other art disciplines, animation needs to take into account the output of art and the audience's perception. So the content it carries directly reverses the research direction and style of animation.

The direction of experimental animation, needless to say, is to pay more attention to the experiment and creativity of the entire animation creation process, and relatively speaking, there are few requirements for output content. More research focuses on the expansion and exploration of traditional animation forms, even subversive innovation.

Compared with the experimental animation for the purpose of breakthrough, the documentary animation direction is relatively practical and conservative, and the research method also pays more attention to the auxiliary role of literature and academic materials.

Although it is called documentary animation, in fact, it is not what sounds like "making documentary with animation", but a long animation with a certain academic foundation, or a non fiction theme animation that relatively attaches importance to rigorous logic. RCA collectively calls this kind of animation documentary animation.

By contrast, the concept of narrative animation direction is the most familiar to students? However, in the first introduction to this direction, the college expressed its ambition: "Even in the simplest and understandable narrative animation direction, we can never teach students to produce assembly line products like other colleges that focus on commercial animation!"

The direction of narrative animation clearly separated itself from other film academies at the beginning, and said that even the relatively common direction of narrative animation must pay attention to its artistic practicality in RCA.

The curriculum of each academic year can further show the differences between British and American schools. Compared with CalArts above California Academy of Arts Project output oriented curriculum. The curriculum of RCA pays more attention to the logic and order of academic discussions. Compared with project output, it is more likely to help students form rigorous academic thinking.

Therefore, although RCA is clearly ambitious and highly emphasizes the adventure and challenge of animation major, it is actually not careless about the academic research requirements of students. This can also be confirmed by the student animation works displayed on the RCA official website.

Exhibition of works of MA students majoring in RCA animation

Although students present animation in different ways, the personal experimental style of animation is also extremely obvious. However, whether it is the degree of preciseness of narration, or the color matching of scenes, or the setting of characters, it can be seen that the creator has profound artistic skills and a large number of early research preparations.

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