Animation (MA)

The MA Animation Programme's graduation show presents compelling content expressed through confident and imaginative primary and secondary research, artistic processes and experimentation. In each of their unique works they explore their creative ingenuity to confront and reimagine the world we live in. Their works reflect on their experiences of sharing virtual space and establishing meaningful connections within a mediated environment of breathtaking technocultural progression as they get ready to enter a radically altered professional landscape.

Their animated worlds are lush in their experimentation. Potent and captivating, their works are highly sensitive to the powers of animation and its ethical, aesthetic and cultural implications. Students work osmotically across all three pathways. This is observed in the media they work with, from analogue materials to digital technologies, and in the ways they collaborate with contributors such as musicians, composers, actors, artists and sound designers. Collective themes emerge in their works including explorations of the self and other, identity politics, mind/body/environment/interpersonal relationships, memory, universal philosophical questioning tempered with humour or poetics, cultural critiques of consumption and incisive examinations and speculative paradigms of our rapidly changing world. Some are visualisations of unseen, but felt, personal experience or speculative and imagined U- and Dystopias. Others treat love and loss creatively, others are upliftingly weird or poetically compelling. We welcome you to enter the unique aesthetic and emotional experiences of the imaginative worlds passionately communicated through our students' creative visions.

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Study Animation at the RCA: www.rca.ac.uk/animation