Bachelor's Degree in Animation

Animate your mind’s eye on screen. The bachelor's degree in animation at icat is a full-time program that provides a deep understanding of anatomy, expressions, emotions, film techniques, and animation methodologies to create finest animation works. 

• The program gives the students every practice necessary to build specialist skills on animation by deploying the latest in technology rather than completely relying on technology. The students are guided to streamline their ideas and improve their visual communication and storytelling skills. They are given intense hands-on practice on the nuances of creating animation works for different mediums, including films, television, advertisements, games, education, and more. They are also given an insight of the latest AR, VR, and MR technologies.
• Pursue your wild imaginations as you learn the traditional and digital techniques of animation design to create rewarding animation works.

Join the Large & Ever Growing Industry

Animation world in India is expanding big time and is assured to offer highly promising job opportunities to skilled ones

• Expertise skills in using industry-standard software to model characters, props and environments.
• Practice on every important traditional and digital animation technique that would help in producing competent animation.
• Gain professional knowledge about the techniques of storytelling, cinematography, video editing and digital sculpture making.

Year 1
Semester - I

• Language Practical (Tamil / Hindi / French) - I
• Language Practical - English-I –Prose and Communication Skills
• Introduction to Visual Communication (Theory & Practical)
• Fundamentals of Art (Theory & Practical)

Semester - II

• Language Practical (Tamil / Hindi / French) - II
• Language Practical - English-II – Prose, Extensive Reading and Communications Skills
• Design Study (Theory & Practical)
• Digital Design Techniques (Theory & Practical)
• Environmental Studies

Year 2
Semester - III

• Language Practical – English - III - Communicative Skills
• Advanced Art for Animation (Theory & Practical)
• 2D & Experimental Animation (Theory & Practical)
• Film Language & Appreciation

Semester - IV

• Language Practical - English – IV – Employability Skills
• 3D Modelling & Texturing (Theory & Practical)
• Advanced Animation (Theory & Practical) Value Education
• Value Education

Year 3
Semester - V

• Business of Media
• Portfolio Presentation (Theory & Practical)
• Visualisation for Major Project (Practical)
• ELECTIVES (Practical)

Semester - VI

• Internship
• Project

Skills to Seek as an Animation Professional

• Acting Skills
• Visualization
• Clay Modeling
• Stop Motion
• Digital Art
• Storyboarding
• Digital Modeling
• Digital Texturing/Lighting
• Rigging
• Rendering
• Autodesk Maya

Build the Practice of Creative Thinking with Peers

• Sharing ideas with like-minded people set the spark in you to a fire. The students of Animation get to involve in group discussions with peers, in a guided environment with the faculties. This helps students learn to streamline their ideas.

Learn as You Do

• Practice-based tasks are a part of every module that gives hands-on understanding of the techniques, mediums, methodologies, and technologies pertaining to creating animation works.

Inspire from What’s Around

• What our ancestors have created for us and what the nature amazes us with are the best to seek inspiration for a creator. The young creators are taken to distinguished spots to get their creator out.

Learn from Professionals and their Works

• Professionals holding a reputed position in the industry visit our students regularly to share their knowledge on techniques, technology, and the industry through seminars, workshops, and interactive sessions. Students are also taken to professional conferences, art galleries, and similar events for them to understand the wide possibilities, and the current and futuristic technologies.

Compete Your Skills

• Students are encouraged to participate in every renowned competition, national and international, to help them understand their proficiency level, identify their area of expertise/improvement, and build contacts with like minds and professionals.

Practice Real Time

• The curriculum at ICAT insists students to take up an internship in any related organization to get a clear and early insight of the industry, and build confidence to take up a job.

Practical Learning

• Learn by Doing – Right from the Basics- Realize the best way to put across your story on screen through the best-in-class facilities at ICAT.
• Work on Your Physical Models- Comprehensive art studio to practice clay modeling and other techniques of modeling give the students a perfect hands-on the traditional techniques.
• The Knowledge Repository- The exclusive live sketching rooms and highly skilled artists as faculties help students experiment their drawing skills that is important to seek a cutting edge as an animator.
• Explore Your Drawing Skills- The exclusive live sketching rooms and highly skilled artists as faculties help students experiment their drawing skills that is important to seek a cutting edge as an animator.
• Try Out the First Stop-Motion & Digital Animation- Fully equipped labs with all necessary equipments, including rostrum, light boxes, industry-standard video cameras, lenses, video editing suites, animation software, digital design tools and more give the students an excellent environment to practice the techniques learned.
• Common to All Departments- In addition to the specific facilities for each department, the campuses of ICAT College are loaded with spacious classrooms, common library with essential readings, locker facilities for students, air-conditioned halls, personal tutoring space, common working zone, students’ lounge, and so on.

Get Placed as a...

• With an exclusive Placement Cell that holds a record of 100% placement, till date, we assure best jobs for every student who have gathered their skills and are ready to take up challenges of the industry.
• As a Bachelor's Degree Animation graduate, students can get opportunities in varied industries that need animated content, like animation studios, movies, television studios, game studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, automotive companies, product design firms, e-learning firms and many more. The students can find a position as a:

Technical Specialists:

• Modeling & Texturing Artist
• Lighting & Rendering Artist
• Rigging Artist
• FX Artist
• Storyboard Artist
• Character Modeler
• Asset Modeler
• Animator
• Editor

Specialists:

• Pre-Viz Artist
• Concept Artist
• Creative Director
• Art Director
• Visual Designer
• Film Director
• Graphic Designer
• Visualizer
• Motion Graphic Designer

Only at ICAT

• The focus the program gives towards futuristic technologies and the global knowledge that veterans in our knowledge brigade brings help students stand apart as best in the industry.
• Above these, the opportunity to work on Dissertations, create Portfolio, and take up Internship with renowned companies gives the sheer confidence and a cutting edge as an animation professional.