Character Design and Concept Art with Integrated Foundation Year

Course Overview

Do you want to create characters and environments for animation, games, comics, or products? This four-year degree with an integrated foundation year gives you the time and support to develop your portfolio, build essential skills, and prepare for success in the fast-growing creative industries. Taught in a studio-style environment, you’ll learn drawing and image-making, explore 3D modelling and digital tools, and develop concepts and visuals for characters and worlds.

Why study this degree?

• Work in a collaborative studio environment

• Turns illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers

• Work with text, drawings, moving images and printmaking

• Develop concepts for multiple industries – from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation

• This focused and practice-led course prepares you for entry into the specialist field of concept art and character design. With access to state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry links, the course will enable you to sharpen your skills and prepare you for industry.

Through an exploration of drawing, anatomy, working with narrative, 3D modelling and using modern digital image-making tools, you will gain a deep understanding of how to create authentic characters and visual concepts

Key areas of study

You'll explore and apply your skills across a range of illustrative applications including: drawing and image-making fundamentals, understanding and interpreting narrative informed by research, using digital image-making tools and 3D modelling to bring characters and environments to life.