MA Visual Communication: Illustration & Animation
CATS Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts
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MA Visual Communication: Illustration & Animation is a broad-based interdisciplinary studio programme that offers you the freedom to cultivate your own visual language, developing confidence in storytelling, worldbuilding and character design, alongside the conceptual awareness and technical skills that underpin ambitions within the expanding fields of illustration and animation.   Based in our central Cambridge studios, over the intensive 12-month programme you will develop a strong grounding ...Read more

MA Visual Communication: Illustration & Animation is a broad-based interdisciplinary studio programme that offers you the freedom to cultivate your own visual language, developing confidence in storytelling, worldbuilding and character design, alongside the conceptual awareness and technical skills that underpin ambitions within the expanding fields of illustration and animation.   

Based in our central Cambridge studios, over the intensive 12-month programme you will develop a strong grounding in research and enquiry as you advance your specialist knowledge within an interdisciplinary environment. You will be encouraged to experiment with new techniques, media and technologies, responding to applications, platforms and spaces in which contemporary illustration and animation are produced and experienced today. Complex times require new stories, and this course will help you to develop the skills and perspectives with which to tell them.

This programme offers outstanding specialist tuition combined with extensive academic contact and studio access. As a Master’s student you benefit from:  

  • Expert tuition from industry-active professional designers, artists, visual communicators and researchers, with unrivalled understanding of contemporary art and design practices, the importance of visual intelligence and experimental approaches to learning, and a passion for sharing their knowledge and skills. 
  • Imaginative and contemporary project briefs, which prioritise experimental practical approaches, and which are underpinned by research-led conceptual understanding.
  • Unique opportunities to engage in creative collaborations with Academic Faculty, Departments, Colleges, Doctoral Researchers and Undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge. 
  • Exclusive access to contemporary creative industry expertise, by means of workshops, talks and projects, as well as the opportunity to participate in a competitive internship scheme in partnership with Hearst Magazines UK, publisher of titles including Digital Spy, ELLE, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Decoration. 
  • Intensive learning experiences tailored to your needs and ambitions, with high levels of personalised support and extensive 1:1 tutorial time. 
  • A postgraduate qualification that will help you to gain distinctiveness and further your creative and professional ambitions. 
  • Collaborating with a creative, interdisciplinary and global postgraduate community, developing individual skills in a sharing and collective context. 
  • Studio workspace, accessible every day of the week. 
  • Access to specialist art and design resources. 
  • A small, supportive and specialist creative arts college in a beautiful, historic and cultural city—a creative hotspot and home to one of the UK’s most dynamic and international student communities. 

Entry requirements

Successful completion of an Undergraduate Degree in an art & design, or related subject, and/or professional relevant experience. Students who do not meet these entry requirements will still be considered on their own individual potential to succeed, as well as any evidence of prior experiential learning. 

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£15,990 per year

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£20,985 per year

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£24,990 per year

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CATS Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts
16 Round Church Street Cambridge CB5 8AD United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Cambridge  0.8 miles away

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