BA (Hons) Animation (with Foundation Year)

This extended four-year course is perfect if you want a degree in animation and illustration but you don’t have the standard qualifications. First we prepare you for your degree during your Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree in animation and illustration. Over the four years, we give you both the guidance and the independence you need to express your artistic vision with confidence and quality.

Foundation Year(If Required)

• Professional Life (Mental Wealth)
• Art & Design Workshops, Processes & Skills
• Art & Design Studio Practice & Portfolio
• Art & Design Specialist Workshops, Processes & Skills
• Art & Design Specialist Studio Practice & Portfolio
• Art & Design Contextual Studies

Year 1

• Agency 1 (Mental Wealth)
• Experimentation and Application 1A
• Narrative 1: Narrative fiction
• Documentary 1: Documentary and Representation
• Aesthetics and Technologies:
• Practice as research
• Experimentation and Application 1B

Year 2

• Agency 2 (Mental Wealth)
• Advanced Experimentation and Application
• Narrative 2:
• Advanced narrative TBC
  Documentary 2:
• Experimental Documentary TBC
• Animated Short Film
• Advanced Practice

Year 3

• Agency 3 (Mental Wealth)
• Aesthetics and technologies: professional practices
• Final Project: Development
• Final Project: Completion
• Animation Final Major Project:
• Pre-production
• Animation FMP

Employability

Graduates who have studied our animation and illustration modules have gone on to enjoy success in various fields. Some of our students set up a university society that grew into a business, Backwards Burd, and which now showcases the work of new illustrators and artists. Others work in animation and motion graphics studios while some run animation workshops. Opportunities abound. It’s a course that would suit anyone considering a career in independent filmmaking. Or it could be ideal for a start in the graphics industry, producing animated content for advertising, web applications, games design, animated storybooks, apps, and music videos.