Course summary

Choose your start date. You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. Course Overview: This MA course helps visually creative professionals enhance their illustration and animation skills, explore new applications, and develop creative thinking for a sustainable career in the rapidly evolving creative industries. Key course content includes:

• Time and storytelling: explore narrative techniques and the creative use of time in visual applications across various fields.

• Collaborative and professional practice: develop teamwork and project management skills, and benefit from industry insights through real-world projects and RSA fellowship opportunities.

• Creative portfolio development: take part in a major project showcasing your skills and vision for a professional portfolio.

• Focus on both illustration and animation, together with associated typographical, graphic design, photographic and communicative disciplines.

• Study traditional artistic disciplines alongside digital and other emerging media types to gain a unique approach to visual creativity.

• Adopt an international outlook in your studies by considering the global impact of the creative, professional, and academic fields of illustration and animation.

• Examine the similarities and differences of illustration and animation – something which forms the basis of ongoing research and practice, exploring both emerging, traditional and hybrid approaches that combine both analogue and digital techniques.

• Participate in exploratory projects that benefit from the input of external creatives, including music producers and artists.