Entrance exam for Bachelor in Animation and Digital Art, 2024

You can find the requirements for Higher Education Entrance Qualification for the country in which you have completed your upper secondary education here. Please note that you are not required to meet the Norwegian language proficiency requirement to qualify for this programme.

Click here to fill out the entrance exam form

If you are an international student, and you wish to apply for student housing, you have to hand in your entrance exam no later than May 1. The deadline for applying for student housing is June 1, and we will not be able to complete the assessment of your application in time if you hand in your entrance exam later than May 1.

If you have questions regarding student housing or other issues to do with arrival as an international student, please contact Lene Kristin Minge.

Requirements for the Entrance Exam

1. Completed questionnaire
2. A video portfolio presenting relevant work. Upload videos to YouTube or Vimeo, and share the URLs in the entrance exam form
3. Your diplomas, transcripts of records and certificates are to be uploaded on Samordna opptak (for all applicants with upper secondary education from the Nordic countries), or in the application portal (for all applicants with upper secondary education from outside the Nordic countries), and not in the entrance exam form

Your upper secondary education, questionnaire and portfolio form the basis for the admission. Where the committee sees the need, applicants may also be called in for an online video call, before a final decision on admission is made.

Throughout the admission process, we will look for potential, engagement, and the willingness to develop both oneself and the field. Applicants will be evaluated based on a range of criteria, which include: creativity, ambition, motivation, artistic and design maturity, ability to experiment, ability for analytical and conceptual thinking, sense of form and color, skills and experience in drawing/visualization, written and oral articulation skills, ability to collaborate, and social awareness.

Below you will find some more specifics about the entrance exam form:

Motivational Letter

1. Who are you?
2. Please describe your motivation for studying the bachelor's program in Animation and digital art
3. Describe your understanding of the study and the field of expertise

4. What do you wish to use your education for once you have completed the degree?

5. What experiences do you have with video games in general?

Your Visual Work

For this part, you need to put together and upload a video online that shows both your portfolio as part 1 and the two practical tasks you will respond to, as part 2. The two parts should be separated by text or similar, in the video. In the form, you are to post the URL/link to the video online, not the video itself.

The video should have a resolution of minimum 1920 x 1080 (FULL HD), in landscape orientation. In order for YouTube or Vimeo to store videos in Full HD, the videos you upload must be in at least the same resolution.

Part 1 - Portfolio

You need to present 5 different existing works you have made yourself, that demonstrate the width of what you can do.

List the works in the same chronological order as they appear in the video. Use numbers and line breaks for listing. Also describe the medium used, such as pencil, oil, digital, video games, 3D visualization, etc.

Please note: AI generated works are not accepted and not considered your work, even though you crafted the prompt.

(Please combine this video with the videos created for the practical part 2, and paste the link to a single video that shows everything, at the end, under part 2).

Part 2 - Practical Assignment

You have to solve both tasks.

Note: It's important that drawings and images are in landscape format so that they fully utilize the video frame. The length of each still image in task B should not exceed 5 seconds.

If you are unsure about how to put together a video, we have prepared a help page at http://spillskolen.no/soknadshjelp/

Assignment A: Concept

1. Visualize the concept 'Future' through a short video or animation, maximum 30 seconds. (For animation, you can work in 2D and/or 3D).
   For this assignment we are looking to see how you compose your shots, through the choice of objects in the frame of the scenes, as well as the interplay between light and shadow. Decide on the expression the visualization should have. You can use interesting angles that show depth, shapes, colors, movement, mood/atmosphere.
   The point here is that you must use your own imagination and trust your own choices. It is open to all kinds of different solutions since it is in the nature of the subject that there is no single right answer.
2. Create a drawing in landscape format, minimum A4 size, that summarizes and explains what you are presenting in the video or animation. Give the work a title, and record a text and integrate this audio file of a maximum of 20 words that explains how you have interpreted the concept of 'Future', over the landscape drawing - or present the text as a separate text before your drawing, in the video.

Assignment B: A Location-Specific Point

Choose a place that means something to you.

1. You should convey the place by creating a series of three (3) black and white photographs that you have taken yourself.
2. Then make a drawing, in landscape A4 format, of the same subject, or a composition in 3D of the same subject - render in black and white.

When taking the pictures and gathering inspiration: Stay at the place while trying to notice what makes the place interesting: it could be a special light, a nice view, something you can do there, an impression, a story, an experience, or something else that is your source of inspiration. Use your imagination.

Submission:

1. Series of three black and white photographs in landscape format.
2. One (1) drawing in landscape orientation, minimum A4 format or one (1) 3D render in 1920x1080 format.