KCAI Offers Digital Filmmaking and Animation
Author : Aaron GnirkArticle ID : 120

Published Date: 2007/2/20 23:27:20Reads : 1226
The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) is a four-year, independent, fully accredited college of art and design founded in 1885 that offering the bachelor of fine arts degree in a variety of disciplines including Digital Filmmaking and Animation.

According to the KCAI website, the newly installed digital filmmaking program provides students with a dynamic laboratory for producing new forms of narrative, documentary and expanded cinema applications. The curriculum is designed distinctively to instruct students in the use of new video technologies for fine art, experimental and documentary applications.

The digital filmmaking program, while driven by a core understanding of conventional filmmaking theory and techniques, uses digital video to enable students to apply advanced motion-imaging technologies and integrate multiple media and disciplines into both conventional storytelling and new forms of cinematic expressions.

Creative exploration is at the core of the animation curriculum and is prioritized in a suite of sequential classes that build relationships between traditional, experimental and computer animation practice.

The animation major at KCAI emphasizes the creative process by combining aspects of concept modeling, production methods, history, theory and technique into each assignment. Courses within the major have planned synergies that will develop the essential skills necessary for students to identify and solve animation problems in physical, virtual, cognitive, social and cultural contexts.

http://www.kcai.edu