Animation
(MA 2 Year PG Program)

Note: Applicants should apply to the MA courses if they intend to take up PGDP Finish. There is no separate application form for PGDP Finish; one can exit at the end of year 1 of MA with an award of a PG Diploma upon successfully completing the graduation requirements.

Animation is a versatile medium of expression and communication that spans various media and contexts, from short films and art installations to infographics, education, and apps. At Srishti Manipal, we understand animation as a broad range of practices in manipulated moving images, recognizing that the lines between live-action, animation, and computer-generated imagery have become increasingly blurred. The Animation program at Srishti Manipal is designed to provide strategic instruction in research methods, animation techniques, film language, storytelling, and image-making processes and research, guiding students to reach new levels of fluency and sophistication in their animation practice. As a student in the Animation program, you will have the chance to explore and develop your style, artistic vision, and voice to push the boundaries of the medium and create evocative expressions. Upon completion, graduates can apply their skills to a variety of fields, including interactive and online media, television, education, contemporary art, advertising, and other screen-based platforms. They may also choose to continue their professional practice, develop their own work, or pursue further research through a PhD program.

Animation is a dynamic, participatory and transdisciplinary medium of expression and communication. It finds its application across media and in diverse contexts, be it in short films, art installations, info graphics, education, apps and many more. The modes of production are many and the lines between live-action, animation and computer generated imagery have become increasingly blurred. At Srishti Manipal we consider as animation a broad range of practices in manipulated moving images. The animation program is a learning space for self-driven students who are keen in pursuing a line of inquiry and developing their practice in moving-image arts.

The MA program provides a framework to support research and the taking forward of one’s practice in animation to newer levels of fluency and sophistication. The curriculum provides strategic inputs in research methods, animation techniques, film language, storytelling, image-making processes and several opportunities for independent skill enhancement. Students can explore and develop personal styles, artistic visions and voices depending on their particular lines of enquiry. The focus is on achieving an ease and expertise in using the language of animation to pose relevant questions and address diverse topics of interest.

• Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary studios
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Lines of Inquiries (Field work, Case Studies, Investigations, individual or Group Projects, Transdisciplinary Research)
• Theory and Understanding
• Independent Study
• Open Elective
• Practice
• Exhibitions
• Culminating Performances of Understanding (Portfolio, Transdisciplinary research, Projects, Colloquium, Capstone/Dissertation)
• Knowledge Enhancement (ability or skills)

The program is designed to develop an individual voice and artistic practice in animation or manipulated moving images through studio-based learning, workshops, theoretical reflections and fieldwork. Through collaboration amongst peers, practitioners and the community, experimentation with form, technique, and material, and constructing meaning with feeling and thought, you will develop artistic sensibilities using sensitivity, balance, measure and detailing. You will learn to create fiction and fictional worlds and imbibe contextual perspectives to inform individual positionality. This approach will guide your ability to enquire, learn and represent the world around and within through moving images with diverse contemporary contexts.

CAPABILITIES

• Constructing layers of meaning, feeling or thought in moving image
• Artistic sensibility – sensitivity, balance, measure, attention to detail etc.
• Creating and constructing fiction and fictional worlds
• Inventive thinking, risk taking – approaching the unknown
• Ability to understand and imbibe contextual perspectives and synthesise individual positions
• Asking relevant questions and using appropriate methods of research
• Ability to enquire, learn and represent a world around and/or within through moving image
• Articulating and shaping one’s practice in relation to diverse contemporary contexts
• Understanding audiences and constructing viewer experiences
• Ability to structure thoughts in writing and present a sound understanding of a context
• Ability to experiment with form, technique and material

What is Animation?

The Animation program at Srishti Manipal is a comprehensive course that explores research methods, animation techniques, film language, storytelling, and image-making processes to develop a practitioner’s fluency and sophistication in moving imagery to explore individual style, artistic vision and voice for different media.

Is this course suitable for me?

The Animation program is an ideal choice for individuals who possess a keen interest in the creation of new worlds, storytelling, experimentation, and the ability to bring static elements to life through motion.

What opportunities do I have after completing this course?

• You can work in the fields of interactive media, online media, television, education, contemporary art, advertizing, and other content for screen based platforms.
• You can continue your practice, develop your own work and become entrepreneurs.
• You can pursue your research and continue to do a PhD.
• You can work for established design firms and production houses.
• You can develop your own projects and apply for grants.