The Illustration and Cartoon Studies Program aims to train people to be professional illustrators or cartoonists. The Program features different approaches to animation and illustration, and focuses on narration, character creation, and the development of a professional ethic.
The Illustration and Animation Department brings together different specialist subjects, from Comics Illustration, to Animation (2D/3D), to Motion Design and Video Game Animation. Professionals are supported in the creation of singular narrative universes, in their ability to construct narratives, to portrait characters and their evolution, and to design video games – all this by combining their technical excellence, semantics and creativity. Students are also provided expertise in 2D and 3D film animation and special effects.
A multidisciplinary teamwork among students helps them explore different approaches, techniques, media, applications, and develop expertise in communication, narration, interactivity, information, and animation.
In the first three years of the Professional Degree, the teaching units are as follows:
FIRST YEAR
| First semester |
Second semester |
| Course |
Credit |
Course |
Credit |
| Introduction to the history of Art and Design |
3 |
Artistic creation and language of visual forms in Africa |
3 |
| Technology and type of materials |
3 |
History of Modern Art |
3 |
| Introduction to aesthetics and philosophy of Art |
3 |
Introduction to Photography |
4 |
| Artistic anatomy |
5 |
Introduction to Design: product-environment-space |
5 |
| Basic computing: Adobe Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign |
5 |
Introduction to Illustration |
5 |
| Introduction to the Design of colours |
5 |
Plastic Arts and introduction to CAD |
5 |
| Italian/English 1 |
2 |
Geometrical Design |
5 |
SECOND YEAR
| First semester |
Second semester |
| Course |
Credit |
Course |
Credit |
| Digital modeling techniques 1 |
4 |
African Art and language of shapes 1 |
3 |
| History of animated film |
3 |
Theories of perception and psychology of form |
2 |
| Colour theory and design |
3 |
Territorial analysis and project Design 1 |
4 |
| Drawing techniques |
3 |
Drawing and postproduction 1 |
4 |
| Aesthetics and philosophy of art |
3 |
Introduction to video techniques and languages |
3 |
| History of comics |
3 |
Bd |
4 |
| History of the drawing |
3 |
Animation 2D |
4 |
| Anatomical drawing |
3 |
Video Game 1 |
4 |
| Photography |
3 |
Professional internship |
4 |
| Italian/English 2 |
2 |
Arts in the 20th century 1 |
3 |
THIRD YEAR
| First semester |
Second semester |
| Course |
Credit |
Course |
Credit |
| Digital modeling techniques 2 |
4 |
Interface design and programming |
5 |
| African Art and language of visual forms 2 |
3 |
Marketing and management |
2 |
| Contemporary Arts and new media |
3 |
Copyright |
2 |
| Anthropology of the image |
3 |
Territorial analysis and project Design 2 |
4 |
| Experimental drawing |
3 |
Drawing and postproduction 2 |
4 |
| Bd 2 |
4 |
Arts in the 20th century 2 |
3 |
| Animation 3D |
4 |
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| Video Game 2 |
4 |
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| Italian/English 3 |
2 |
Thesis |
6 |
