Animation Director
The National Film School of Denmark offers an ambitious animation director program for future animation directors.
The program is an artistic education based on the student's personal idiom and focuses on how it develops in different animation practices, genres and narratives.
Through the programme, you will learn to tell stories and visualize them in animation films, games, across formats and in new and old media. You will gain knowledge and experience with animation and its various visual expressions.
During the 4-year program, you will identify your interests and motives towards developing a personal artistic practice that enables you to work with many different themes, expressions and methods while relating to the world around you.
Artistic Development Work (which we call KUA) is a big part of the foundation of the program and is present throughout.
You will learn to relate to what goes into the creation of an animation work, which includes the relationship between director and team, choice of methodology, idiom, technique, representational considerations, target audience, etc.
In the program's main subjects and productions, you will alternate between working alone, working conceptually and as initiating or co-creating animation instructor. Throughout the program there are small practical exercises, shorter productions and a major film and game production.
In your role as an animation director, you will need to act as a creative leader who is able to collaborate and co-create, but you must also be able to lead yourself. Artistic collaboration and leadership are therefore important aspects of the program.
