MA/MFA Animation at eca

course structure: full-time across four terms.
dates: October 2008 - September 2009
location: Edinburgh College of Art application
deadlines: June 2008 or later if places are still available

By its very nature, animation is a vibrant and ever-changing medium - in a constant state of flux, both technically and creatively - and the programme at eca aims to reflect this.

Over the years the animation department at Edinburgh College of Art has enjoyed considerable success in producing innovative and groundbreaking work. Not only have students and staff consistently won awards and distinctions at festivals and competitions throughout the world, but their work is frequently screened on television in the UK and abroad.

One of the strengths of the department is its context within an art college and you will be encouraged to take advantage of the unique opportunities and challenges provided by an environment devoted to design, craft and fine art. We also promote collaboration with individuals and groups from outside the College and in the recent past have had projects involving postgraduate sound design students from the University of Edinburgh as well as professional composers.

We regard our students as filmmakers as much as animators. We have no strict definition of what animation must, or should, be, for the medium has a natural vitality and capacity to surprise and intrigue that makes it the perfect vehicle for those with ideas and imagination.

The MA and MFA programmes are likely to appeal to independently minded individuals with some previous experience of animation, who wish to develop their work in a new or experimental direction.