Illustration with Animation

Students will select a location which can be visited regularly and often. Working initially in sketchbooks they will gather extensive first hand visual records of their chosen place. Guided through regular tutorials, the aim of the module is to encourage the development of individual visual languages, through which the students convey and communicate a sense of place in an appropriate resolved body of work. The module will include inductions in screen printing and etching and print and moving image software. The work will be applied to outcomes in drawing, print and animation.

Through a series of short projects students will engage with Issues such as non-verbal communication, visual wit, working sequentially and visual narrative. Each project introduces fundamental research and design strategies which are applicable to a range of illustration processes and practices.

An introduction to the basic principles of Illustration and Animation delivered through a series of workshops and approaches to drawing. Students will work on location in guided activities intended to reinforce the use of drawing as a primary research tool and extend their technical abilities. Some of this drawing will form the content for the production of a rudimentary animation.

At Level 4, this module encourages some collaborative, interdisciplinary practice and shared experience. There are lectures and talks from key research staff, students and external experts. Teaching will be in the form of tutorial groups, weekly meetings and presentations. The set projects will vary from year to year and are designed to be responsive to current creative opportunities. 

The module introduces a range of broad over-arching themes and concepts – historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and economic – to inform your knowledge and understanding of Design as integral to positive or negative change.

The module enables you to further develop the research themes and skills gained in year 1, to identify and investigate specific concepts and challenges that directly inform your evolving area of design research and practice.

This module explores collaborative and interdisciplinary art and design practice. You will have the opportunity to engage in a range of external-facing learning opportunities which will encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary practice and shared experience; this may take the form of spending time outside of the University and working within the creative community and the public domain. 

Students will be presented with a set of projects intended to explore, in-depth, fundamentals of specific visual communication problems. They will select one. Presented with methodologies of good practice they will be encouraged to experience new approaches to extend their personal practice.

Students will be presented with a set of projects intended to explore, in-depth, fundamentals of specific visual communication problems. They will select one. Presented with methodologies of good practice they will be encouraged to experience new approaches to extend their personal practice.

You will focus on experimental approaches to visual language and cultural forms in order to extend your expressive potential as illustrators or animators.

On the third year Unit X, there is a student authored final project leading to a showcase of finished work. The module includes a brief generated by the student, which leads to the presentation of a significant body of final work. Collaborative and interdisciplinary work can be incorporated into the project in relation to the professional context and ambition of the student.

Through the use of negotiated learning agreements students produce a body of work which continues to extend their individual creative practice. They will be supported by a personal tutor and will be part of a tutorial group.

This module draws upon key ideas and research methods developed in years 1 and 2 to research and establish a substantive individual position for a personal and or professional design practice. This will establish the theoretical framework to inform and underpin the development of your studio practice and support your future graduate ambitions.