The Department of Theatre Set Design Painting began its activity as an independent department in 1997. Prior to that, this field functioned as the “Theatre Artist” specialization at the Tashkent Institute of Theatre and Fine Arts named after A.N. Ostrovsky and at the Tashkent State Institute of Arts named after Mannon Uygur.

The department offers the educational programs “Theatre Set Design Painting” and “Visual Solution of Film,” and since 2017, the bachelor’s program “Animation and Computer Animation” has also been introduced. In 2025, a master’s degree program in “Theatre Set Design” was established. Currently, the department provides fully developed bachelor’s and master’s degree programs across all its areas of study.

The main goal of the department is to train specialists capable of creating stage design, developing props and attributes, designing characters and costumes, planning both small and large-scale stage spaces, and producing artistic solutions at all stages of theatrical production. In addition, the department’s key tasks include creating storyboards and explanations for feature, documentary, popular science, and animated films, developing sketches of characters and environments, participating in all artistic stages of film production, and forming high-level professional artistic skills in students.

Based on these objectives, the department aims to prepare highly qualified professionals in theatre, film, and animation, possessing deep knowledge and the ability to apply their artistic skills in practice.

The department offers the following disciplines: drawing, painting, color science and fundamentals of composition, theatre directing, fundamentals of film directing, fundamentals of directing in animation, composition of theatre design, film composition, animation composition, artistic solutions in animation composition, fundamentals of visual movement in animation, work in material and model-making, stage techniques and technology, technology of film set design, painting techniques and technology, decorative drawing, decorative painting, as well as computer graphics and contemporary processes in animation.