The deadline for the applications for the academic year 2010/2011 is 10th of June 2010

***Interviews with successful candidates will take place during 1st and 2nd of July via SKYPE

An international MA programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts

2 academic years, 120 ECTS

Leading professors of the animation programme are award-winning animators
PRIIT PÄRN and ÜLO PIKKOV
Animation studies is a general concept referring to academic research of animation directing and film-making. This knowledge is generated by several disciplines e.g. animation, scriptwriting, history of animation and media theory. Thus the background of this MA programme is trans-disciplinary. An important part of the study includes production of films and realisation of various exercises connected to the film-making process. The coursework mainly concentrates on classical and experimental techniques i.e. drawing animation, stop motion, cut-outs, sand animation, painting under the camera etc.
In the professional sense, students will direct independent projects of animated films, and will also experience the role of the film producer.

Core courses of the Animation MA

Philosophy
Ethics and aesthetics
Film theory
Film history
Animation history
Animation technique
Creativity
Film production; Film industry
Animation projects 1 and 2

Structure of the Curriculum:

Lectures, seminars, intensive modules and projects are intertwined in the two-year MA. Essay writing, script writing, animating, directing, editing, sound engineering and research are core activities to be learnt and practiced throughout the courses, leading to a final diploma-film project.

Download MA Curriculum of the EAA Animation as PDF