The course times to develop student insight into writing processes, the goals and motivations of scriptwriters and other narrative designers, so they can collaborate more effectively to realise a narrative vision when creating animations.

The aim of this course is integration of core drawing skills, and understanding of three-dimensional form, into art practice. 

The course aims to provide students with a broad theoretical and experiential grounding in the principles of visual communication design, and their relationship to animation, a common vocabulary and understanding of art and design concepts, and introductory of knowledge of design process and reflective thinking, to enable their development as creative animation specialists.

The course aims to introduce students to the principles of animation to convey ideas with moving image, and provide grounding in those principles through practice with analogue and digital 2D techniques, and integration with art and design skills learned in other papers.