BA (Hons) Animation

Advancements within the digital industry have led to a huge revival in animation techniques. This course enables you to explore and understand the creative potential of digital animation while developing industry-relevant skills in a specialised field.

Designed to inspire and enhance your creative abilities, this course provides a structured pathway in digital animation practice as well as a selection of elective modules focusing on areas such as drawing for animation, digital narrative technology, compositing, and pre-production elements.

You will:

• Develop the skills you need to pursue a career in digital animation, TV and digital media
• Understand how to develop creative and digital technology abilities
• Learn which attributes are required by animation organisations

This is for you if...

• You possess creative flare and imagination
• You have the ability to understand 3D form and scale
• You want to explore the creative potential of digital and traditional forms of animation

You will produce a strong body of work that will enable you to develop your career in the animation industry. You will learn how to tell visual stories through performance and character developing industry-leading skills in a specialised field.

Designed to boost your creative thinking and technical abilities, this course provides a structured pathway in digital animation practice. From the start, you will be hands-on and will learn traditional stop-frame animation techniques as you are introduced to the principles of animation and the laws of motion. You'll also learn industry-leading 3D animation software.

This course allows you to identify and define your own career prospects with dedicated portfolio modules, which will help you in your preparation for employment.

Animation is one of the fastest-growing areas within the UK creative industries providing multiple opportunities for graduates. Based in MediaCityUK, you'll be right in the heart of this growing creative sector which is focused on developing adaptive, highly-skilled, industry-ready creatives.

Year one

• Animation 101
• Introduction to Creative Play
• Animation Context
• Animation 102
• Storytelling: Script to Screen
• Introduction to the 'Making of'

Year two

• Performance and Character
• Specialist Animation Studies
• Engagement Challenge
• ‘Making of’ Integrated Practice
• Creative Collaboration

Year three

• Negotiated Project - Phase One
• Research Project
• Negotiated Project - Phase Two
• ‘Making Of’ - Negotiated Project
• Showreel and Professional Engagement

When you graduate you will be equipped for a range of careers in the animation industry as well as TV and film.

Recent graduates have started their careers in a variety of areas including animation at local studios, freelance animation for industry and art organisations, storyboarding and pre-production/conceptual art, animation for games, visuals for music videos and independent film companies.

Graduates from this course could go on to study our MA Media Production courses, including:

• MA Media Production: Animation
• MA Media Production: Children's TV Production