Handbook

In Deconstructed Animation Systems you will investigate how animation systems have developed and what they say about how we see time, movement, and states of change. You will investigate the many different ways animation elements can be unpacked and reassembled to provide new creative opportunities for reconfiguring time, movement, materials and data. This involves examining and working with both stop-frame animation and key-frame compositing software to create hybrid working methods between the two. You will be encouraged to utilise a number of different animation systems, computer-generated objects, video, film footage and still images as sources that can be reprocessed and creatively combined into a variety of inventive animation methods.

In this course you will look at the creative tension between analogue and digital processes to create a space in which you can experiment and develop new projects. We will take the concept of the in-between both metaphorically and literally to make transitions between methods, materials and content.