A 30-second exposure to vacuum is likely to cause permanent physical damage. 15 minutes is the maximum time for surviving in freezing water. It takes between nine and 12 seconds for deoxygenated blood to reach the brain. Ambulance response time averages five minutes.

You have one minute and 20 seconds. Over eight sessions we will explore digital animation techniques and visual communication operations, engaging with digital tools through analog processes. We will start by studying animation theory, observing the expression of moving matter according to the laws of physics.

Digital tools like ‘AfterEffects’, ‘Cinema4D’, ‘Maya’, ‘Boujou’, ‘RealFlow’, ‘Anima’, ‘Unity3D’, ‘Edge Animate’ and many more plugins and add-ons are just as pen and paper in order to react, interrogate and express yourself in a time dependent environment. The course will emphasize both linear and real-time, time-based media, provoking and questioning our senses and perceptions. We will use raw animation and intriguing graphic languages to bring to light the restless and digital stories that surround us. During the course we will travel to gaze into the endless space of the NFTS’ (National Film and Television School) green film sets, just outside of London.

The Motion Studio is the Architectural Association’s time-based media and digital storytelling garage. We explore digital animation and visual communication techniques, swinging between motion-graphics and 3d animation operations, choreographing space through yocto-seconds.

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Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu
Intermediate - Autumn 2013

Alvaro Calle Moreno

Alvaro Calle Moreno

interFACE

by Arman Hosseini

interFACE

by Arman Hosseini

Bannermen Of Enlil

by Ashirai Musikavanhu

Bannermen Of Enlil

by Ashirai Musikavanhu

A Spherical Hussle

by Berkin Islam

A Spherical Hussle

by Berkin Islam

The Grid

by Chung Kim

The Grid

by Chung Kim

Barbican Flow Analysis

by Ioannis Kanakas

Barbican Flow Analysis

by Ioannis Kanakas

Liam Denhamer

Liam Denhamer

Maria Jose Garcia Concha

Maria Jose Garcia Concha

Michael Obot

Michael Obot

Patricia de Souza Leao Muller

Patricia de Souza Leao Muller

Roman Lovegrove

Roman Lovegrove

Sanket Ghatalia

Sanket Ghatalia

Shira Rotem

Shira Rotem

William Wong

William Wong

Yijun Huang

Yijun Huang

Yonathan Moore

Yonathan Moore