Illustration and Animation MA: Facilities

Here is the range of facilities available to you as a student at Kingston that will help you during your course.

There is a wide range of facilities at our Knights Park campus, where this course is based. Teaching in the Faculty is mainly studio-based so you spend a lot of your time in the illustration and animation studios, which provide:

• a life room for drawing practice;
• fully-equipped film/animation studio;
• printmaking equipment – including equipment for relief, intaglio and photographic-based imaging;
• photography equipment – including for digital printing;
• whitespace film studio – with animation programmes, animo, toon boom and 2D packages; and
• a general wood and metalwork workshop.

Computer workshops include:

• Mac software – such as Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator and Flash;
• editing programmes – including media 100 and final cut PRO; and
• compositing programmes – including After effects, Combustion, 3D Animation, 3D Animation and 3D Studio MAX.

You also benefit from:

• well-equipped lecture theatres, seminar rooms and workshops;
• the library's extensive book and journal collection – as well as over 150,000 slides and visual references dating back to the 1600s; and
• the dedicated Graduate Centre on campus – including IT facilities, seminar rooms and social spaces.

The University has its own on-site galleries, including:

• Dorich House – home of the sculptor of Dora Gordine;
• the Stanley Picker Gallery – featuring exhibitions of contemporary art.

Resources in London

Kingston is just a 25-minute train journey away from central London. Here you can access a wealth of exhibitions and galleries, including the Cartoon Museum and the National Film Theatre.