The role of the illustrator or animator is not ephemeral, temporary or mere entertainment. It is ecological, cultural, political and technological, challenging the momentum of the twenty-first century. Illustrators and animators must deploy their skills and imagination to respond to the wider political and cultural climate with more urgency and vigour than ever.

Imagination is a powerful force, able to create and configure new ideas and develop dreams for both the individual and humanity as a whole. This course provides illustrators and animators with the skills and knowledge to effectively harness this power in their unique practice and their proposed project.

Illustration and Animation at Cardiff Met will appeal to graduates of any discipline of the visual arts, as well as professionals looking to sharpen their critical and theoretical skills.

Students will explore the role of the illustrator or animator through speculative methods in a transdisciplinary environment.

Through a combination of self-directed studio practice, lectures, seminar sessions, and reading groups, students will be closely and individually guided in the exploration of their own practice through their proposed project, as a critical and re-directive process.

Cardiff Met looks to recruit brave, speculative, imaginative, and dedicated creative graduates who share their leading-edge-research concern for illustration and/or animation, and their instinct to imagine and explain.