Course summary

Become an expressive and agile creative, exploring the world of ideas and stories through varied and experimental forms of illustration and animation. BA (Hons) Illustration & Animation combines powerful visual communication methods into an exciting degree where you’ll explore and develop your distinctive voice and work, in a dynamic creative studio. As part of this course, you’ll also:

• Work on inspiring projects to gain a range of conceptual, technical, and research skills

• Learn fun and experimental techniques for developing still and moving images into distinctive storytelling

• Use the power of image and motion to respond to a range of human and environmental needs

• Grow your confidence to initiate your own projects and collaborate with others

• Create and facilitate projects for diverse situations, audiences, users, and participants

• Build a portfolio of work tailored to your interests and creative identity, positioning you in your preferred professional context

• Take a placement year - an opportunity to take a year of paid employment to apply your skills to an area of illustration and animation you're passionate about

• Close links to industry and creative businesses in Leeds, the UK, and beyond

• You'll learn from tutors with extensive professional experience and networks

• Study within one of the largest university arts communities in the north

• Develop your specialist skill set with access to a vast range of ideas, training, and facilities