Masters Animation Arts

This course aims to explore the potentialities of animation in artistic, narrative and experimental context. The production and directing of animation films and the use of animation in an expanded field such as art installation or video mapping are practices towards which the course is oriented. It is a course focused on experimentation and research of animation, which has become the dominant area of the art and audiovisual industry.

The following are eligible to apply for the cycle of studies leading to a master's degree: a) holders of a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent; b) holders of a foreign academic degree awarded following a 1st cycle of studies organized in accordance with the principles of the Bologna process by a State adhering to that process; c) holders of a foreign higher academic degree that is recognized as satisfying the objectives of a bachelor's degree by the statutorily competent body; d) holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized by the statutorily competent body of CUL as attesting to the ability to carry out this cycle of studies.

The master programme is adressed for all applicants with previous artistic training and who want to use animation to expand their knowledge and skills. It is also oriented at all those who want to develop research in animation through their artistic and production conception processes contributing to the field of artistic research and practice based animation.

Filming and production of animation cinema; Production applied to areas of expanded animation (art installation, virtual and augmented reality, video mapping); Research in animation.

Mestrado Erasmus Mundus Re:Anima; Doutoramento em Arte dos Media e Comunicação.

The Lusófona University campus has a large audiovisual and multimedia production facilities which includes spaces specifically dedicated to the area of animation, with particular emphasis on a classroom with 10 animation sets where students work on various techniques (clay, cutouts, sand, oil, puppets ...), a construction classroom with all the necessary tools and machinery plus an animation set, a 3D animation classroom with 20 PCs with Maya and Mudbox for digital illustration, a 2D classroom with 20 macs and 20 cintiqs with TV Paintand Krita, a drawing and design classroom with 23 easels, and a MOCAP laboratory for motion capture. We also have a theater with 160 seats (Sala Fernando Lopes).

The artistic, narrative and experimental process that is developed in the master programme is research matter in itself. In parallel, in some of the courses, it is required that the student elaborates in writing his/her artistic conception process in direct relation with the state of the art and with the literature on animation studies, so that it can be published and disseminated and contribute to research in the area.

Evening classes