Gain the tools and flexibility to become a skilled visual storyteller on our Animation & Illustration course at CAA, Limassol.
Images - both moving and still - provide visual storytelling everywhere we look, from feature films and adverts to smartphone apps. With a strong focus on the social and cultural contexts for illustration, this course will help you become an adaptable and independent maker with critical thinking at the core of your approach.
You’ll have access to specialist tools and industry-standard software as you learn processes and techniques such as traditional 2D hand-drawn Animation, 2D Digital & 3D Animation, Illustration, Narrative, Storytelling etc
The course will also offer opportunities to take part in live industry briefs, competitions and extra-curricular projects, and to make the most of our many industry links to gain experience and build your network.
Graduates have gone on to enjoy careers in fields such as animation, illustration, digital media, film making, set and spatial design etc.
Length of Study:
3 Years, Full Time
Level of Study:
Undergraduate
Starts:
Fall / Spring
Campus:
Limassol, Pentadromos
Entry Requirements:
Apply:
Introduction to Animation and Illustration
This unit introduces you to different ways of approaching, questioning and solving creative problems. You’ll investigate, analyse and document a range of subjects in response to projects set by your tutors. Through these projects, you’ll be taught skills related to the collection of information and visual analysis.
Animation Fundamentals: Motion, Narrative, Screen
You’ll be introduced to the basics of storytelling, narrative and sequence for a range of media outputs. You’ll learn how to build visual stories, develop pictorial and typographic elements from research, establish themes, characterisations, environments and use of metaphor. You’ll also experiment with composition and layout for communication.
Illustration Fundamentals: Image, Type, Print
You’ll continue to develop your research and idea generation skills and also your image-making skills through practical workshops, tutorials and seminars. These include practices such as observational drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, 3D and type.
Message, Medium, Meaning
You’ll examine a range of topics through the exploration of examples from historical and contemporary practice and analysis of your studio work. These will include basic concepts in semiotics, the relationship between word and image, the construction of narrative, photographic language, function and expression, culture connotation and myth, subversion and propaganda.
Social and Cultural Contexts
This unit encourages you to examine and explore your personal ethics, values and motivation through the production of work for others.
Developing your Practice
This project that runs throughout Year two acts as a stepping-stone to the personal, self-negotiated work you will be undertaking in Year three. You will be able to concentrate on a specialist interest that you hold within the field of illustration and/or animation. This interest can arise out of a focus upon a particular medium or process; or it can develop from a design problematic that you are attracted to. Equally a visual language that you enjoy (e.g. drawing, photography etc.) could become the centre of this unit.
Authorial Narrative
This unit consolidates and develops further the narrative development and making skills from Year one, and further develops your critical perspective through a written task or similar outcome.
Spatial Practices
You will learn how to manipulate spaces to create identities, multi-sensory experiences, and innovative events/exhibitions in a sustainable and environmentally conscious context.
Critical Research and Practice
You will plan, develop and construct of a self-directed research and design project. This will take into account your knowledge, understanding, skills, experience and interests you have gained over the duration of the course. Here, the theoretical and practical are entirely intertwined, and you will be encouraged to develop an experimental approach. You’ll employ research to inform practice, and practice to inform your research, so that you develop an original and innovative approach to both.
Major Project
This unit provides you with a framework within which to research, develop and realise a set, or self-initiated, project. You will be given a choice of set projects, competitions, live briefs or a self-initiated project where you will originate, develop and produce a body of work based on your interests and aspirations.
For further info on how to apply or any other queries you may have please call our Admissions team on 7000 52 50 or fill in the contact form below and a member of staff will contact you as soon as possible.
That’s why your portfolio is an especially important part of your application to study with us; and we can help.
Our academics can offer you expert advice on how to showcase your creative work and build a portfolio that will make your application stand out.
More advice on how to create an exceptional portfolio is also available here, along with specific portfolio requirements for this course.
Along with your portfolio, the standard entry requirements** for this course are:
• 112 UCAS tariff points from accepted qualifications or
• Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4) or
• Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma or
• Merit at UAL Extended Diploma or
• 112 UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma in appropriate subject
• Secondary School leaving Certificate e.g. Apolytirion
And four GCSE (or equivalent) passes at grade A*-C and/or grade 4-9 including English (or Functional Skills English/Key Skills Communication Level 2).
Other relevant and equivalent level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds apply.
If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or equivalent.
