Drawing Foundations for Animation and Illustration Algonquin College

Overview

Throughout the Drawing Foundations for Animation and Illustration program at Algonquin College , you create a diverse portfolio that represents your drawing ability and artistic strengths that can be used to apply for further programs of study. An annual showcase provides an opportunity to exhibit your best works and interact with industry professionals, peers, family and friends. 

Quick Facts:

• Expand your potential, using a wide variety of digital and traditional mediums to build creative works, while discovering your strengths and preferences along the way. Immersed in a studio environment, you explore life drawing, sculpting, and character, environment and creature design. 

• You also create appealing environments that encompass a sense of character and a lived-in feel using proper perspective, texture and detail. Sculpting and painting with digital tools and software solidifies your understanding of the properties of light, value and colour and their influence in a 3D environment.

You have the opportunity to research and explore your abilities and interests in:

• animation

• comic books

• book illustration

• concept art

• graphic novels

• gaming

• anime

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Create two- and three-dimensional art and design works using art elements, principles of design, and a wide range of materials, processes and techniques.

• Effectively use critique and reflection for personal and peer projects to solve design problems and to enhance the development of creative works.

• Develop and present a portfolio that showcases personal artistic style using a range of media appropriate for a variety of artistic disciplines.

• Communicate in an art and design environment using appropriate language, strategies and techniques in order to develop and maintain interpersonal relationships and to support artistic goals.

• Explore and select from a variety of tools and techniques to develop and manage a personal visual and digital presence.

• Explore the professional requirements and opportunities in various creative visual art fields to inform academic and professional goals.

• Use tools and techniques of the animation and illustration professions to enhance the essence, believability and visual storytelling of figure-based forms and their environments.

• Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.