Application Portfolio Requirements

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Animation Portfolio Guidance

The requirements listed below are generically useful for application to animation courses across the UK.

For successful application to the BA (Hons) Animation course at Edinburgh College of Art a portfolio should demonstrate the following essential, and preferably at least some of the desirable elements:

Essential Portfolio Assets

• Demonstration of life drawing ability
• Confident use of a variety of drawing media and techniques
• Confident use of colour
• Evidence of sequencing or pattern in folio (Drawings/prints of objects changing state, or drawings/prints of repeating pattern. for example.)
• Evidence of narrative or storytelling (Written evidence or storyboarding or comic strips for example.)
• Confident use of IT

Desirable Portfolio Assets

• Familiarity with a 3D modelling & animation package (Such as Maya or 3D Studio Max for example.)
• Familiarity with 2D painting or photo manipulation packages (Photoshop or Painter for example.)
• Familiarity with compositing software (Premiere or After Effects for example.)
• Any form of animation

Subjects You Should Be Able To Discuss
(Please note, ECA does not formally interview applicants, but the information below will be useful for institutions that do, or for personal statements)

• Candidates should be able to express an awareness of the medium in its different forms
• Candidates should be able to confidently express their reasons for wanting to be an animator
• Candidates should be able to clearly express their career ambitions
• Candidates should be able to identify a role model from within the medium of animation.