Animation - PGDP Finish

Award Offered: B.Des

1-YEAR PG Diploma Program

Vision

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 forms. 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 one-year PGDP program in Animation is designed to find stories of relevance. It 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 offers inputs in research methods, animation techniques, film language, storytelling, image-making processes and opportunities for independent skill enhancement. Students will be encouraged to delve deeper, and develop nuanced understanding of contexts and modes of communicating through animation. The focus is on achieving an ease and expertise in storytelling that poses relevant questions and addresses diverse topics of interest.

Residency with artist Hemabharati and Attakalari Dance Company. Over a month-long residency, students explored ideas of gender in public space through dance. Festival of Stories #6. Picture Credits: Srishti Institute

Course Structure

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)

LEVEL

Postgraduate Diploma

AWARD

Bachelors of Design (B.Des)

DURATION

1 Year / Full-time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

27 March 2024

ait-2020-014

Residency with artist Hemabharati and Attakalari Dance Company. Over a month-long residency, students explored ideas of gender in public space through dance. Festival of Stories #6. Picture Credits: Srishti Institute

Dataprint is a multy-city performance, and technology installation. A collaboration with international artists from Khymera Productions. The event took place at the San Jose Tech Museum and Bangalore at the Cubbon Park Metro Station, and used performance and interactive theatre to make commuters aware of issues of Data Privacy. Picture Credits: Srishti Institute, Ajith Samuel

Experiments by Art in Transit team and students of the Living Libraries course at Lalbagh Metro Station. Picture Credits: Srishti Institute

Learning Approaches

Learning is driven by published lines of inquiries that is enacted through studio based learning, workshops, theoretical reflections and field work. This approach cultivates a creative practice through engagement in diverse contexts, collaborative and participatory approaches leading to knowledge development.

Program learning approaches include:

A theoretical and conceptual engagement with relevant topics and discourses in moving image practices.
Using art and design research methods to explore and articulate one’s understanding and position
Collaboration amongst peers, practitioners and the community.
Independent learning with close guidance from mentors
Conception, development and production of strategic moving image works relevant to one’s line of inquiry

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
Abilty to structure thoughts in writing and present a sound understanding of a context
Ability to experiment with form, technique and material

Disciplinary Intersections

The program is informed by the following learning disciplines:

Performance
Screen Studies

Opportunities

You can shape you practice of animation to be able to 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 inquiry to do an MA or M.Des and further develop your research by doing a PhD.
You can work in design firms and production houses.
You can develop your own projects and apply for grants.