Diploma In Illustration Design With Animation

Course details

The Diploma in Illustration Design with Animation is designed to provide you with strategies and skills pertinent to illustration design, enabling you to successfully manage a range of visual contexts and communication challenges. By combining illustration design with animation, you will acquire knowledge and techniques to work with traditional and digital platforms, focusing on drawing fundamentals, 3D experimentation in animation, conceptualisation and interactive design. These platforms aim to develop your creative mind, allow you to express your ideas, sharpen your acumen in visual dialogues, and help you articulate them into creative outcomes. You will feel confident as a visual communicator, applying yourself professionally in illustration or animation contexts.

Learning Outcomes

• Equipped with the knowledge, skills and understanding to meet the demands of employers, enabling them to perform functional creative design skills
• Engaged in learning and motivated to pursuit higher education
• Confident in the discipline and feel empowered to solve problems
• Able to work in teams flexibly and make informed decisions that will succeed in the work environment

COURSE MODULES

• ACR1000 Language Arts
• ACR2000 Singapore Arts Scene
• ACR3000 Career Skills
• VAF1001 Drawing Fundamentals
• VAF1011 2D Fundamentals
• VAF1021 3D Fundamentals
• VAF1031 Creative Thinking
• VAF1041 Introduction to Visual Arts
• VAF1051 Arts in Practice
• DDM1201 Figure Drawing
• DDM1202 2D Design
• DDM1203 Images, Motion and Narration
• DDM1204 Creative Studio
• DDM1205 History of Design and Media
• DDM2131 Illustration Studio
• DDM2132 Types, Images and Ideas
• DDM2133 Drawing In Motion
• DDM2171 Visual Culture
• DDM2231 Illustration Studio
• DDM2232 2D Animation
• DDM2233 Print Essentials: Illustration Design
• DDM2271 Visual Culture
• DDM3131 Illustration Studio
• DDM3132 3D Animation
• DDM3133 Interactive Media 1: Illustration Design
• DDM3171 Research Methods
• DDM3231 Illustration & Applications
• DDM3232 Graduation Project: Illustration Design
• DDM3233 Interactive Media 2: Illustration Design
• DDM3271 Research and Communication Studies
• DDM2139 Character Design*
• DDM2239 3D Experimentation and Motion*
• DDM3139 Experimental Illustration*
• DDM2111 Art Direction
• DDM2112 Big Ideas 
• DDM2113 Persuasive Writing
• DDM2212 Big Ideas 
• DDM2121 Graphic Studio 
• DDM2122 Typography
• DDM2221 Graphic Studio
• DDM2222 Typography 
• DDM2142 Camera and Lighting*
• DDM2143 Video Editing*
• DDM2242 Video Expression*
• DDM2243 Audio Post Production*
• DDM2001 Community Based Project*
• DDM2002 Design Entrepreneur*

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

NAFA hopes to attract applicants with the potential to become excellent arts practitioners. Applicants are selected by merit, based on the following criteria:

• Potential in Artistic Talent and Creativity
• Educational Qualification
• Language Proficiency
• Special Factor in recognition of the applicants’ achievements relevant to the course

Selection is competitive and is subject to the availability of places. However, the Academy may give consideration to talented applicants who excel in Artistic Talent and Creativity, but have not fully met the educational qualifications stated.

• Potential in Artistic Talent and Creativity
• Educational Qualifications - Singapore
• Educational Qualifications - International
• Language Proficiency
• Special Factor
• Age Requirement
• Module Exemption
• Applicants with Special Educational Needs

POTENTIAL CAREERS

Upon completion of this course, you may look forward to the following career options:

• 2D Animator
• Character Designer
• Concept Artist
• Digital Illustrator
• Illustrator
• Storyboard Artist