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BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation

University of East London — London, United Kingdom

BA (Hons) Illustration and Animation is a undergraduate Art & Design course at University of East London, London, United Kingdom. It takes 3 years, costs £16,500 per year and starts in September.

Undergraduate · 3 years · Full-time · Art & Design · £16,500 per year

Intakes: September

You'll get the opportunity to develop a practice which blurs the line between animation and illustration, something that has become more common in industry.

Modules

• Foundation Year
• Year 1
• Year 2
• Optional Placement
• Year 3
• The Illustration and Animation BA (Hons) first year equips you with foundational skills in creative practice, research, and experimentation, essential for an Illustration and Animation undergraduate. Professional Life 1 emphasises personal development and adaptability for future careers in the Illustration and Animation fields.
• At the end of the module, you will be able to begin to self-manage the development of a creative practice and to disseminate ideas.
• The module focuses on process, developing skills and practical knowledge encouraging you to discover a range of creative ways of working within the context of your discipline as well as extended practice supporting your developing practice. The module is backed up with regular group tutorials.
• This module introduces you to a further range of processes and practices, skills and knowledge, through a series of workshops, projects and electives to extend your practice.
• Technical introductions and workshops enable you to broaden the scope of your skills and practice, as well as specific workshops pertinent to contemporary processes and methods, including a range of analogue and digital tools.
• These skills and processes are introduced and discussed in relation to the development of a visual language applicable to contemporary fine art, graphic design, illustration, photography and animation practice.
• The module allows you to present your work to audiences, testing your ideas and concepts, and receiving feedback feeding forward to your practice and to level 5 of study. Cross-disciplinary exhibitions are encouraged as well as inter-disciplinary discourse.
• The module Practice into Research supports the module and allows you to contextualise your practice in the form of a presentation of your work.
• The lectures are complemented by tutor-led discussions focusing on student work in progress, interrogating the practical work within the context established by the lectures in order to promote deeper understanding and extend creative ambition.
• Developing the key psychological and physical determinants of human performance are increasingly critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial revolution.
• This module will provide you with the opportunity to identify the skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in, a range of potential future career areas.
• You will begin to recognise the areas for your own personal professional development (including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences) through taught and workshop activity.
• The module develops your advanced conceptual skills and analytical abilities, research and writing skills appropriate to the study of art and design at this level, feeding directly into key studio projects across the year so that the research methodologies we develop may be tested and deeper connections between practice and theory explored.
• The module is further supported by opportunities for first-hand encounters with visual art and design in London art galleries, museums and art institutions.
• The module enables you to expand on the skills and knowledge from level 4, encouraging you to take risks, try new things, and not to be afraid of learning through mistakes and failure to develop your practice. This, in turn, will help you to begin to define your individual approach to fine art, fine art technology, graphic design, design interaction, illustration, animation and photography.
• The emphasis of this module will be on research and the development of a body of references that supports practice-based outcomes, supported by the Contextual Studies module.
• The module delivery includes advanced workshops/masterclasses by tutors who are working in the industry /industry connections/ visits to industry or e.g. professional production companies.
• The module supports the development of work in other level 5 modules.
• The module will allow you to develop your practice as an artist, design thinker, illustrator, animator and photographer. The module develops an individual working practice supported by group seminars and one to one tutorials. It also introduces you to working collaboratively via presentation of work at the end of year showcase.

Careers

• Designer
• Illustrator
• Animator
• Art Director
• Producer
• Photographer