Tokyo Designer Gakuin
Illustration Department
Sharpen both your analog and digital illustration skills and take the opportunity to attend seminars from seasoned illustrators. Then take the skills you have gained and showcase your portfolio at the school’s Message Book Exhibition.
Career prospects
- Illustrator
- Art director
- Graphic designer
- Social media game illustrator
- Comic illustrator
- Picture book writer
- Cartoonist
- Advertising designer
- Concept artist
- Character designer
- CG graphic Designer
Majors
General Illustration
Learn everything about both digital and analog illustration, including texture, composition, effects, expression and more. Using these elements, become able to express scenes and emotions required from any illustration work.
Media Illustration
Utilize popular illustration software DreamWeaver and Animate to transform your illustrations into games, smartphone applications and more.
Digital Illustration
Study the basics of Blender, an easy to use illustration software, in addition to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. With these tools, level up your skills and create your own 3D illustrations.
Game Illustration
Learn the techniques that 2DCG graphic artists are using that hold the key to high quality games. From character creation to designing the game’s world, gain the illustration skills necessary to join the video game industry.
Character Illustration
Using illustration and 3D modeling, become skilled in the nuanced art of character design. Whether you are working on games, comics or movies, character illustration design is a vital step of the process.
Picture Books Creation
Become able to recognize and communicate the power of expressions, writing and elements (page structures) in picture books. Combine your illustrations and writing to create your own picture books for children in Japan and beyond.
Where alumni work
- Toei Animation
- Sunrise
- Madhouse
- Pielo Creative
- Bones
- Asahi Production
- Studio Dean
- Zexis
- Seven Arcs
- T2 Studio
- Nippon Animation
- Madbox
- Overdrive
- Twins
- EitaroSoft
- Randok Studio