BA (Hons) Illustration with Animation
A three years full-time course
This course will provide you with a rare opportunity to combine illustration with animation. Through a variety of challenges you will develop strategies and skills to enable you to successfully cope with a range of visual communication problems and contexts. The course is founded on drawing, developing visual dialogues and generating ideas for highly resolved creative outcomes. Embracing the handmade and the digital, students have access to book binding, etching, screen-printing, typesetting, drawing on film, working with sound, iMovie, Photoshop, InDesign, Final Cut Pro and website development.
Top facts
- Provides you with the rare opportunity to combine illustration with animation, developing yourself as a visual communicator at home in a wide range of professional contexts.
- An experimental course that encourages you to be ambitious, curious and reflective.
- Development of traditional and digital skills including drawing, book binding, etching, screen-printing, typesetting, drawing on film, working with sound, imovie, Photoshop, in Design, Final Cut Pro and website development.
You will study
In Year 1 you will be introduced to the three main building blocks of the course: drawing, printmaking and animation. You will develop your skills through a series of projects, introducing you to possible strategies for solving visual problems and applications which explore context. As the course unfolds, you will start to identify a framework for your own practice.
In Year 2 you will begin to experiment more fully with your own practice and will be introduced to real life situations that you would encounter in professional practice. For example, you will work with text and narrative, make books, experiment with sound and movement and develop design concepts.
In Year 3 you will work more independently and focus on your particular strengths, deciding which contexts are most suitable for your visual language. We aim to give you the courage to be yourself and the understanding of how and where you may contribute to the wider world of visual communication and practice.
Assessment
Continuous formative and summative assessment with feedback and discussion on completion of all units. The programme ends with a School of Art exhibition.
Graduates
90%* of art, design and architecture graduates go straight into employment and/or further study.
Possible careers include working as freelance illustrators in editorial, advertising, publishing and design, and book design, storyboard artists, animators, giftware designers, teachers, artists in residence, or picture researcher/editors. Other graduates go on to postgraduate study. The programme has a very good success rate in students gaining places at the RCA (Royal College of Art), with students currently studying in illustration, animation design, retail, marketing, and community arts programmes. Recent graduates have gained employment in illustration, animation design, retail, marketing and community arts programmes.
*Source: DLHE survey 2009 for all respondents available for employment or further study and whose destinations are known
Location
All Saints Campus, Manchester
Entry Requirements
| UCAS Tariff Points | 280 |
|---|---|
| UCAS Tariff Points/Grades to be obtained from full A levels or equivalent | 240 at A2 or equivalent (such as BTEC National at Level 3 or Advanced Diploma). If applying using Foundation Diploma in Art and Design a Merit is required. |
| Specific subjects required | GCSE grade C (or alternative) in English Language |
| Access qualifications | A relevant Access to HE Diploma will be considered for entry to this course. |
| Interview required | Yes |
| Portfolio required | Yes |
| International Baccalaureate | 28 |
Fees
UK and EU full-time students: £9,000
Non-EU full-time international students: £11,000
International Fee Band 2
How to Apply
Apply through UCAS.
UCAS Code: W217
All applicants are asked to submit a Digital Portfolio.