Teamwork

Employability and working with the industry are very important to us. Students on the course get experience of professional practice through working in a team and meeting strict deadlines for professional clients. Our real-life briefs come from the English National Opera, Old Operating Theatre Museum, Royal Shakespeare Company, Cartoon Network and the National Gallery. We have lots of contact with visiting professionals. Each student is allocated a mentor, who is a practicing animator and industry lecturers include Shelley Page (Dreamworks), Philip Hunt (Studio AKA), Andy Blazdell (CelAction) and Sue Tong (Illuminated Picture Company). With a high graduate employment rate, ex-students from the course are filling roles at Cartoon Network, Framestore, the Mill, BBC, Dreamworks, Industrial Light and Magic and Disney.

CUT! Exhibition

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CUT! is an exhibition curated by students from the MA Culture, Criticism & Curation course at Central Saint Martins that brings together new animations made by students from the college’s MA Character Animation course and new composers from the Drama Composition Pathway at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama.This unique collaboration takes place at The Old Operating Theatre, famous for its fascinating collection about historic surgery and original anatomical theatre

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Collaboration with English National Opera

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Second year students from Central Saint Martins have produced a series of animations which take their inspiration from ENO's Spring 2015 season.

Inspired by a visit to Terry Gilliam's Benvenuto Cellini at the London Coliseum, students from Central Saint Martins’ MA course in Character Animation created short fiction animation films in response to productions in ENO’s Spring 2015 season.

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