Master of Science [M.Sc] (Animation) Syllabus, Course Structure and Program Schedule 2025-2026

M.Sc. Animation is a two year course, generally divided in 4 semesters. First three semesters comprise course work in form of classroom lectures and practical. Fourth semester is for Final Project and Internship. The students get opportunities to explore and experiment with ideas and communicating the idea through narrative, non-narrative story telling techniques.

The course delivery methods in the program include classroom lectures, discussions, presentations and industry visits. Real world exposure is set through assignments and projects to simulate an industry experience.

All the universities and institutes follow the same course structure and also the course curriculum has the similar subjects. An overview for the syllabus is given below:

Semester 1

Name of Paper	Topics	Description
Animation Principles	Squash and stretch, Anticipation, Staging, Straight ahead action and pose to pose, Follow through and overlapping action, Slow in and slow out, Arc, Secondary action, Timing, Exaggeration, Solid drawing, Appeal	The paper aims at defining the principles and rules of animation.
Animation Drawing	Create a hand drawn picture, Capture the frames	This paper aims to develop the drawing skills, which plays the key role in animation industry.
Story Design and Development	-	This paper focuses upon the imaginative skills to design the stories and develop the skills.
Visual Language and Aesthetics	-	This paper refers to the pleasing appearance of things.
Learning Labs	Animation drawing lab, Computer graphics fundamentals lab, Digital design	This is an enhancing paper. Beneficial for the students to work in the lab.

Semester 2

Storyboarding	Pre-visualizing	The paper aims at creating the illustrations or images for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
Character design	Research designs, Imaginative skills, How to use styles and qualities	The paper is designed to create a character in a creative manner.
Acting for Animation	-	The paper focuses on the art of acting to present the story through a character.
Film Appreciation	-	The paper is designed to understand the key dynamics of what film is made up of.
Learning labs	Layout design Basic rigging Elective lab-1	-

Semester 3

Sound design	-	The paper is designed to create sound according to the character.
Animation Marketing and Management	-	The paper teaches how to demonstrate any product in a creative way.
Advanced rigging	Surface representation, Hierarchical set	The paper represents the character into two parts
Lighting and Rendering	-	The paper teaches essential skills and concepts in any 3D rendering package.
Learning labs	Animation research lab Elective lab 2 Lighting and rendering	-