Bachelor of Arts in Motion Design and Animation

Course Overview:

The BA curriculum introduces the student to a broad range of artistic, creative and academic skills to develop a deep understanding of the creative processes of animation storytelling. In this programme students apply their artistic talents to the development of their animation storytelling skills.

The animation degree curriculum focuses on digital 3D and digital 2D animation skills within the context of traditional 2D animation principles.

There is however a strong emphasis on developing and refining traditional fine art skills such as drawing, painting and sculpture to support the creative processes involved in character and story development for animation.

Course Aims:

Animation has become ubiquitous in contemporary society and the accessibility to digital media has made acquiring animation skills fairly easy. However, animation is not only a technique, but also an art, with strong roots in the fine arts, illustration and comics.

This programme not only offers the necessary digital skills on 2D and 3D platforms, but includes practical art workshops in a number of artistic techniques and various theory modules to develop a critical understanding of the field and discourse of animation.

The final year of study includes a major practical project that forms the centerpiece of the student’s portfolio. The student can choose to complete the graduation project in either digital 3D, or 3D stopmotion, or digital 2D.