"Falmouth was a great experience for me because I was able to learn everything from the very beginning and it taught me all the skills I need. I hardly had any animation experience but Falmouth helped me realise my dreams." Karolina Glusiec, regional winner and runner-up in the national Royal Television Society Awards for best undergraduate animation
Direct line: 01326 213851
Tremough Campus
3 years full-time
UCAS Code: WG64 BA/DA
BA(Hons) Digital Animation course leaflet (1.68 MB)
Often, learning how to use software is the easy bit - being creative is the hard part. At Falmouth you'll combine cutting-edge animation practice with the study of animation theory, film language, drawing, and traditional animation processes - all of which will enhance your creativity; informing your work and giving it greater depth.
University College Falmouth is part of the Cornwall Skillset Media Academy network - a UK-wide group of institutions identified as centres of excellence in creative media education and training.
You'll develop your digital animation skills using industry-standard software and you'll be encouraged to work creatively across a range of subjects from traditional art practices such as life drawing and visualisation, to performance, acting and motion studies. To give your work further context, you'll also study the history and evolution of animation techniques and the process of producing animated films.
Taught through seminars, workshops and tutorials, you'll often work in groups to mirror the industry that you're preparing to enter. Assignments will also be professional, often ‘live' briefs working with ‘clients' from the creative industry.
By choosing to study for a degree in Digital Animation at Falmouth you will:
Students have recently created short animations to accompany sound clips gathered by the Hayle Oral History Project. They ranged from stories about the war to everyday life, and were premiered in Hayle as well as being shown at the Cornwall Film Festival. "It was a fantastic opportunity for us as students to experience what it would be like to work on a project for a client, meeting their deadlines and expectations!" says BA(Hons) Digital Animation student, Jessica Hudson.
Digital Animation course leader, Andy Wyatt, has recently collaborated with Children's BBC on two projects.
Projects by first year BA(Hons) Digital Animation students
The Library, by BA(Hons) Digital Animation students
Karuzele, by Karolina Glusiec BA(Hons) Digital Animation Erasmus student
Idents, by BA(Hons) Digital Animation students
Falmouth's Professorial lecture series aims to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni, our research collaborators, our industry partners, our local communities and other supporters. Recent lectures relevant to students in the School of Media include Andrew Chitty and Emily Bell.
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Andrew has been a pioneer in the converging worlds of TV and digital media since the mid 90s when as Editor of BBC2's The Net he was responsible for the BBC's first website and virtual world. Since 1998 he's built Illumina Digital into the UK's leading cross platform production company winning a raft of awards including 4 BAFTAS, 8 RTS Awards, The UN award for e-learning and even a Golden Ladle for the world's best cookery site. In 2008 Illumina joined All3Media, the UK's largest independent production group.
Andrew has been active in policy and industry groups, co-authoring OFCOM's paper New Options for Public Service in the Digital Age and has advised Lord Stephen Carter as a member of the ministerial steering board for the Digital Britain Report. He is a council member of PACT, trustee of TRC Media in Glasgow and a past board member of Skillset. Andrew is currently Chair of the National Skills Council for Digital Media.
A video of Andrew Chitty's lecture can be viewed online here
Download the transcript of Andrew Chitty's
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Director of Digital Content for Guardian News and Media, Emily set up www.mediaguardian.co.uk in 2001. www.guardian.co.uk has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Webby for Best Newspaper on the web in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Oxford graduate, Bell is one of the rising stars coming through from a younger, more web-focused generation of senior media figures.
A video of Emily Bell's lecture can be viewed online here
Our dedicated animation studios and Learning Resource Centre include:
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For further information about BA(Hons) Digital Animation at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213851.
Graduates can expect to enjoy careers within the animation, interactive and games industry as animators, effects artists, pre-production artists, web designers, illustrators, or in post-production. Freelance commercial illustration practice, design practice, art direction, advertising, research or postgraduate study are further options.
A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. All applicants will be invited to attend an interview and present a portfolio of creative work so we can assess your abilities, skills and potential to succeed at this level of study.
Please see our How to Apply page for more information.
For further information about BA(Hons) Digital Animation at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213851.
Interviews will commence from January, with the majority of interviews held in March.
The interview will include a tour and an interview where applicants can present their portfolio of work. Applicants are welcome to show portfolios at interview but this is not an essential requirement. Portfolios should include artwork and/or moving image work together with sketch books and examples of music/sound and an example of written work.
Location: Tremough Campus
The Learning Space is fantastic, especially for someone not living on campus like me. You can organise tutorials with your lecturers, book equipment workshops, use the interactive Google calendars with the timetables on, find out grades for modules and hand in work with out having to come into uni. Jessica Hudson, BA(Hons) Digital Animation student
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