Animation and Illustration

About this course

Animation and illustration are two disciplines that have always been closely related and which are increasingly converging in professional practice. Illustration is the art of visual storytelling and communication through image, creating work that interprets, decorates, or extends a narrative or concept across a wide range of media. Animation adds the dimension of time and movement, bringing characters, worlds, and ideas to life through sequences that can be hand-drawn, digitally crafted, or produced through any of a growing range of hybrid techniques. At Anglia Ruskin University you will study across three years on a full-time programme. The curriculum is deliberately broad in the range of methods and media it explores: you will work with puppet making and stop-motion animation, traditional 2D animation, digital 2D and 3D animation, character design, and graphic novel and sequential ar

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 65 / 100Web and Multimedia Design Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 35 / 100Design occupations · 20% of graduatescards →

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