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Architect’s film career is tested by their animation skills

United Kingdom Architecture News - Aug 07, 2015 - 14:28   4134 views

Architect’s film career is tested by their animation skills

Student Kelvin Ip's degree film imagines Hong Kong as a citadel in 2047; image via bbc.com

"I've never been so close to designing a space, realising how it feels, before I started making films," Angelika Vasileiou says. The film's creator, Angelika Vasileiou, explains the appeal of animation.

There are also dozens of other-worldly 3D-printed structures, some of which seem to resemble buildings. This much you might expect at the annual Bartlett School of Architecture degree show. But held aloft above them in a corner, is a monitor playing a haunting film - an animated journey through a labyrinth - with a dramatic voiceover. Why is an architect making a film like this? It turns out that architecture students, who can spend five-figure sums on their seven-year training courses, are using their newly-learned digital animation and design skills to break into the world of film......Continue Reading

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