AUB MA Animation Production

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Hello from the MA Animation Production’s graduating class of 2023 at Arts University Bournemouth! We hope that you’ve been having a pleasant summer.
We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the formal opening and private view of our graduate exhibition.
Please RSVP here if you’re able to attend.
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We’d love to welcome you in person to our exhibition!
Thank you so much, we look forward to hearing from you.
Warmest regards,
MA Animation Production Class of 2023

SNAPSHOT 23
Thursday, 07 September 2023, 18:00 - 21:00 The Gallery, AUB

Free online course for those wanting to enter the UK screen industries...

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You are invited to attend this exciting event at Arts University Bournemouth on Weds 8th June, to launch the Palgrave Animation series of books. Seven volumes are already published in the series, with more in the pipeline, and some of the authors and contributors will be present to talk about their work.

Professor Eric Dyer (Leverhulme Visiting Professor at AUB, and contributor to the first book in the series, 'The Crafty Animator') will also be in attendance, and there will be an opportunity to experience the amazing zoetropic artworks produced during his Leverhulme-funded workshops at AUB.

Register via the Eventbrite link

AUB Open presents: Palgrave Animation Book Series Launch Arts University Bournemouth invites you to a book series launch for Palgrave Animation.

You are invited to attend this exciting event at Arts University Bournemouth on 7th June. Eric Dyer will give a keynote address and there will be an exhibition of zoetropic artworks produced during his Leverhulme-funded workshops.

Register via the Eventbrite link

AUB in Collaboration: Professor Eric Dyer 'Immersive Animated Sculpture' Professor Eric Dyer presents 'Experiential Storytelling, Immersive Animated Sculpture, Live Performance' at Arts University Bournemouth.

Deadline 25th April!

This training is aimed at early career storyboard artists, revisionists and assistants working on animated TV series. It will be delivered online over 3 weeks and will consist of a mix of masterclasses and assignments finishing with an online networking event to share the work produced and introduce the participants to potential employers.

Participants will leave the course with a better understanding of the process of taking a script to storyboard, learn the basics of the industry standard software Storyboard Pro, develop their drawing skills for storyboarding, increase their knowledge of film language, and finally to use all these to test their skills on an existing script.

Cost £100.

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3-month paid placement in a production company making children’s content, alongside industry training.

Placements in trainee researcher, trainee production coordinator or trainee edit assistant roles.

Application deadline 28th February.

https://www.screenskills.com/bookings/children-s-tv-dream-big/

An extraordinary book, full of mind-bogglingly great animation designs.

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ScreenSkills Animation Trainee Finder, an entry-level paid placement programme, is open to candidates who are 18+ with up to 12 months' paid experience in animation.

Animation Trainee Finder will provide 20 trainees with up to three placements on 2D, 3D and stop motion productions across the UK to gain a variety of experience over the course of a year.

ScreenSkills launches Animation Trainee Finder to address skills shortages with new inclusive talent - ScreenSkills ScreenSkills

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A reminder of the Eric Dyer talk tomorrow, 5.00pm UK time, hosted by the Animation Research Group at the Arts University Bournemouth
Register via Eventbrite (in the linked page) and then receive a Zoom code for the event itself.

Animation Research Group Talk: Material Motion: the Art and Films of… The Animation Research Group at AUB is delighted to announce the next speaker in our ongoing series of talks, Eric Dyer

The Animation Research Group at Arts University Bournemouth is delighted to announce the next speaker in our ongoing series of talks. All are welcome.

Speaker: ERIC DYER (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Title: Material Motion: the Art and Films of Eric Dyer
Date: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Time: 5.00-6.30PM (UK time)


Please register for this event via this Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-motion-the-art-and-films-of-eric-dyer-tickets-155596221487

A separate Zoom code giving access to the event will be sent on 24th May to those who have registered via the Eventbrite link above. The code will give you access to a Zoom waiting room open 30 minutes prior to the event start-time.

Abstract
Eric Dyer’s inspiring work challenges us to rethink what animation is and how it can engage people. Animation is still a young art form with many underexplored avenues of expression. Although the lay-person’s view of animation is still predominantly as entertainment for cinema and television, it can also be used for participatory sculpture, immersive kinetic environments, live performance and other experiences of exploration and discovery. Dyer draws on all of this and more through works based on one of the keystones of animation – the zoetrope, or ‘wheel of life’. Following a presentation of his artworks and films, Dyer will participate in a discussion and answer questions.

Biography
Eric Dyer is an artist who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures, installations, and performances. Beginning with his pioneering films Copenhagen Cycles (2006) and The Bellows March (2009), which were made by shooting spinning cut-paper and 3D-printed sculptures, Dyer continues to reinvent Victorian Era optical devices, exploring topics related to media history, our relationship with technology, kinetics as a form of artistic expression, and the relevance of physical presence in an increasingly digital world. His work has been widely exhibited at events and venues such as the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, international animation festivals in numerous countries, the screens of Times Square, and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He has been honoured as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Artist, and Guggenheim Fellow. Dyer's fervent exploration of expression through motion has placed his work in books such as Re-imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image, the American Film Institute reader Pervasive Animation, Animation: A World History, A New History of Animation, and The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value. He has been a visiting artist at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, ECNU in Shanghai, and CalArts. Dyer teaches visual arts and animation at UMBC in Baltimore (USA) and is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York City. He will teach his methods at Arts University Bournemouth during a Spring 2022 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship.

Material Motion: the Art and Films of Eric Dyer Eric Dyer draws on a variety of topics through works based on a keystone of animation – the zoetrope, or ‘wheel of life’

Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film starts on 4th May. Professional pass is €35 and includes online networking as well as screenings, talks etc. https://www.itfs.de/en/tickets/accreditation/

The Animation Research Group at Arts University Bournemouth is delighted to announce the next speaker in our ongoing series of talks. All are welcome.

Speaker: ANITHA BALACHANDRAN (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India)

Title: Godly bodies and Modern mythologies: Animated preoccupations from India

Date: Friday, 30th April 2021

Time: 2.00-3.30PM (UK time)

Please register for this event via this Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/godly-bodies-and-modern-mythologies-animated-preoccupations-from-india-tickets-151792171471

A separate Zoom code giving access to the event will be sent on 29th April to those who have registered via the Eventbrite link
above.

Abstract
This presentation explores the enduring popularity of Hindu mythological characters and themes in animation from India. Reflecting on indigenous visual practices, transnational influences, contemporary politics and desires, this talk contextualizes animated myths within a larger theoretical and historical framework to examine the forces and passions that underlie their creation. Just why are they so popular? Who are their protagonists? What do they tell us about our present and our pasts? How do India's myriad demotic traditions of visual representation and its pervasive live-action industry influence animated imagery? This presentation examines these and other intriguing phenomena, analyzing a rich variety of imagery from indigenous paintings, miniatures, comics and cinema to uncover an evolving genre of animated myths.

Biography
Anitha Balachandran is an animation filmmaker and senior lecturer at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Her work explores oral histories, poetry and song as ways of retelling the past, and she has been commissioned to create films for museums, historical monuments and heritage sites across India. Anitha's research focuses on representation and identity in South Asian animation and illustration. Her practice and research have been supported by numerous awards including an INLAKS foundation scholarship, fellowships from the India Foundation for the Arts, The J .Paul Getty Trust and the Rado Foundation, as well as grants from Pro-Helvetia the Swiss Arts Council, the Society for Animation Studies and the Helen Hamlyn Trust. She has published academic articles and teaches related courses at the post-graduate level. Anitha is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and completed her MA at the Royal College of Art.

Expanding Animation? The Animation Research Group at AUB is delighted to announce the next speaker in our ongoing series of talks. All welcome.

Paid internships producing children's content:

"A brand new and unique initiative, The Secret Story Draw, has launched to find raw, rare and audacious talent in the animation industry. The scheme is dedicated to placing illustrators and animators from Black, Asian and minority ethinic backgrounds into some of the country’s best animation studios via paid internships.

The Secret Story Draw sees some of the UK’s most renowned children’s writers provide an anonymous story written exclusively for the initiative, with budding animators and illustrators invited to bring the stories to life."

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The Animation Research Group at Arts University Bournemouth is delighted to announce the next speaker in our ongoing series of talks. All welcome.

Speaker: MAX HATTLER (City University of Hong Kong)
Title: Expanding Animation?
Date: Wednesday, 14th April 2021
Time: 10.00-11.30AM (UK time)

Please register for this event via this Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/expanding-animation-tickets-149851952223

A separate Zoom code giving access to the event will be sent on 13th April to those who have registered via the Eventbrite link above.

Expanding Animation?

In this presentation for the Animation Research Group, Max Hattler gives an insight into his experimental and expanded animation practice and research focused around visual music, expanded stereoscopy, and the narrative potential of abstraction in animation. Through a discussion of early works like the War on Terror-abstraction Collision (2005), recent Hong Kong-made films Divisional Articulations (2017) and Serial Parallels (2019), and the immersive stereoscopic installation Vœrtex (2020), Hattler draws out some of the ways in which animation can navigate and probe the complex relationships between art and technology, sound and image, movement and meaning, and abstraction and figuration.

Biography

Max Hattler is an artist, researcher, curator and educator who works with abstract and experimental animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. After studying in London at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, he completed a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2014. Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His films have screened in festivals and exhibitions worldwide, receiving prizes from Annecy Animation Festival, Prix Ars Electronica, Punto y Raya Festival, London International Animation Festival and the Visual Music Awards, among many others. He has spoken widely at conferences such as CONFIA, the Society for Animation Studies Conference, Animafest Scanner, Ars Electronica, and the Annual China Animation Studies Conference in Chengdu. In 2017 Max established Relentless Melt, a society which regularly presents screenings of Hong Kong animation, most recently at New Media Society Tehran and London International Animation Festival. He serves on the board of directors of the iotaCenter, the programming committee of the Seeing Sound symposium and the editorial boards of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and Animation Practice, Process & Production.

A series of talks, hosted by the Animation Research Group at the Arts University Bournemouth, will run across March, April and May 2021.

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A reminder of the first of a series of talks in the Animation Research Group at Arts University Bournemouth.

Andrea Polywka (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Thursday 25 March, 5.00-6.30pm UK time

'Animation as (In)visible Labour - Production, Perception and Performances in King Kong (US 1933) and The Lion King (US 2019)'

Abstract: This talk deals with the technological as well as aesthetic aspects of animation labour in the context of live action films. A look behind the scenes of classics such as King Kong (US 1933) or more recent productions like The Lion King (US 2019) offers some insights regarding the status of the animated film (or especially the animated character in a live action environment), animating as a craft, as well as the function of animation technologies in contemporary film culture.

Bio: Andrea Polywka is a PhD candidate at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and was part of the research training group "Configurations of Film" at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation project deals with the status of the hybrid moving image in contemporary mainstream cinema as well as discourses around animation techniques and special effects. She addresses the strict and problematic dichotomy of categories for such films, preventing a broader consideration of their complex medial composition and history. Besides the discussion of existing conceptual models on hybridity, and realism, she also explores other alternatives for theorizing, ordering, and historicizing these objects of film and media culture.

If you would like to attend the presentation by Andrea Polywka, please register via:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animation-as-invisible-labour-production-perception-and-performance-tickets-145242936533?fbclid=IwAR0Y7nE-FqYV-yxwRQaSATaOyDhjmLhZO02geESD17uS_xUzWjl0cQtjbAw

A separate Zoom link will then be sent to you on 24th March, to allow you to join the event.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes
Paul Ward

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Did you know our MA in Animation Production is part of the BAFTA Scholarship programme?

The BAFTA UK scholarship programme is open to British citizens in need of financial assistance to take eligible undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the UK. Each BAFTA Scholar receives between £5,000 to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, as well as mentoring support from a BAFTA member, winner or nominee and free access to BAFTA events around the UK.

MA Animation Production at is one of the eligible courses for the BAFTA Scholarship Programme

If you’d like to be notified when 2021-22 applications open, visit:
bafta.org/register-your-interest

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