Digital Animation BA(Hons)

Why study BA(Hons) Digital Animation at University College Falmouth?

BA(Hons) Digital Animation course leaflet (1.68 MB)

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. Here you'll combine cutting-edge animation practice with the study of animation theory, film language, drawing, and traditional animation processes.

Working from our dedicated and high-specification animation studio, our unique studio practice will ensure that you learn how to become a creative practitioner by producing animation in a professionally simulating animation studio environment.

Tell me more about the BA(Hons) Digital Animation course

Taught by a staff of highly experienced professionals in both technical and creative disciplines, this course balances both of these vitally important areas. Course Leader, Andy Wyatt, has won many awards throughout his professional career and has recently directed the animation for two BAFTA winning TV shows.

Alongside the development of digital animation skills using industry-standard software, 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.

Our aim is to produce graduates who are highly skilled and creative professionals, who can work in a professional collaborative studio environment. Your strengths will be identified early on in the course and nurtured accordingly through seminars, workshops and tutorials. Group work features heavily, as that is how the animation industry operates.

You'll benefit from a schedule of visiting industry practitioners who'll bring a diverse range of current industry experience to the course, while the opportunity of a professional placement will enable you to practise your craft and contextualise your 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.

Most importantly, you'll graduate with a portfolio of short animated films and the necessary skills to become an animation professional in your chosen area of animation - as well as being able to write critically about animation, the history and evolution of animation techniques and the process of producing animated films.

Facilities

Our dedicated Animation Studio includes:

• Industry standard 3D and 2D animation software and hardware
• Traditional stop motion and 2D animation production areas
• Specialist animation post-production facilities
• TV studio, sound recording and green screen studios within the Media Centre

Samples of student course work

Projects by first year BA(Hons) Digital Animation students

In the Press

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Course outline

Level 1

• Digital Animation Practice
• Design, Scriptwriting & Motion Studies
• History & Theory

Level 2

• Digital Animation Practice
• Design, Scripting & Programming
• Research & Method
• Post-production

Level 3

• Major Project
• Dissertation
• Professional Placement

Answers and advice about the course

If you have any queries about the course please visit our HelpMe Forum

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Career opportunities

Graduates from the Digital Animation course can enjoy careers throughout the UK, Europe and North America as animators, film makers, web designers, illustrators or in post-production. Freelance commercial illustration practice, design practice group, art direction, multimedia & moving image, advertising, research or postgraduate study are further options.

• Interactive and games industry animator
• Film maker
• Effects artist
• Pre-production artist
• Web design
• Post production
• Art direction
• Advertising
• Illustration

Course entry requirements

UCAS Tariff 220 points, mainly from the A2 level, or the equivalent in appropriate 14-19 Specialist Diploma, Foundation Diploma, National Diploma or Access to HE Awards, or experience.

For further information about BA(Hons) Digital Animation at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213851.

Interview dates and selection process

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

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• Graphic Design BA(Hons)
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