Illustration and Animation MA
Coventry, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The Illustration and Animation MA aims to expand the digital and physical knowledge of your craft, helping you find your own ‘voice’ and style.
Course overview
If you are seeking to enhance your professional portfolio and understanding of emerging practice, we offer a vibrant, creative community in which to progress your personal research and practice, in order to make your own unique contribution to illustrative and animated visual communication.
You’ll also be encouraged to develop a unique visual signature and a compelling visual voice that will help you to effectively communicate with intended audiences - both are essential for success in professional practice.
Why you should you study this course
- This course provides illustrative and animated input into many areas of professional practice including the publishing, scientific, technical, marketing, publicity and advertising, medical and cultural arenas - all of which provide opportunities to help you stay abreast of emerging trends and the challenges of contemporary professional practice.
- This practice-based course provides opportunities to develop a broad range of traditional and digital skills, including drawing, etching, screen-printing, typography, film effects, and working with sound; all using industry-standard practices and toolsets.
- Your studies will take place in a studio environment with access to our range of specialist facilities4, including laser cutters, 3D rapid prototyping, screen printing, computer suites and clay modelling to enable you to produce original informative artefacts.
- Internationally acclaimed for their own creative practice, some of our faculty staff have exhibited in national and international locations and venues (staff are subject to change).
- You will have the option to apply for a ‘professional experience’ opportunity, designed to further develop your skills and knowledge with the aim of maximising your employability prospects.
The course explores illustration, publishing, photography, image generation and animation. We will help you achieve a deeper understanding of your role as a visual interpreter, the importance of adapting to market needs and to a developing field.
Through practical exploration and reflection of digital and traditionally physical forms, you will develop an appropriate synergy between practice and theory, establishing your specialist signature of work. Your final project will be tailored to your own area of professional practice and your personal creative passion, culminating with an exhibition of your work in the end-of-year MA Degree Show.
Modules
- Collaboration in Practice 1
- Illustration and Animation Specialism 1
- Professional Context 2
- Illustration and Animation Specialism 2
- Creative Futures and Social Change
- Illustration and Animation Specialist Investigation
- Illustration and Animation Final Project
Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
- demonstrate through practice, an advanced understanding of the creative production of animation and illustration genres
- analyse problems of a creative nature and provide appropriate solutions
- describe, interpret and evaluate artefacts, artworks, designs and events from a range of critical perspectives, taking account of the context of their production, consumption and critical positioning
- research and synthesise information to make presentations
- prepare a working brief in keeping with the creative business practices associated with the field
- apply with a high degree of confidence and mastery the conceptual and practical elements of hybrid techniques as appropriate
- participate in, and engage with practice surrounding new and traditional media
- engage creatively when applying differing and various media and techniques in the pursuit of a successful answer to client/brief requirements
- engage with the needs of a client which aids both client and practitioner to create a successful brief.
Where our graduates work
Some of our recent graduates have gone on to work in games-based, scientific, televisual and educational areas.