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Study Details: 1 Year Full-time 2 years Part-time
This course offers you the opportunity to choose your own route through the field of animation, studying either MA Animation or the bracketed specialism, Visual Effects.
Animation is a discipline that adapts, challenges and leads the moving image industry. It is in the DNA that we all share since it can be applied equally to live action, games, XR, live performance, online, and any number of time-based media as well as being an important form in itself.
Creating animation is a collaboration, and at the heart of this course we encourage students to develop a strong network within the School of Digital Arts and industry focussed links. Animation is not a mono-discipline but multi-faceted, and our bracketed animation specialism reflects the many ways that animation can be applied and examined. From science communication, to award winning short films, to mind-bending VFX, animation touches and transforms many areas.
You will drive your creative projects in your chosen practice with staff who will guide and challenge you. Our postgraduate community is led by a specialist team of academic staff and visiting speakers who are practising artists, animators and researchers. They bring their passion and knowledge of the varied industries that animation feeds and share advice and expertise about how students will join them.
The postgraduate student experience is designed to provide you with opportunities to hone your specialist technical skills, challenge your thinking, and make professional links with the global creative community and industry.
You’ll need a UK honours degree – at least a 2:2 – or the international equivalent, in any subject. Professional experience will also be considered for mature students.
Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification. Accepted English qualifications can be viewed here.
For fees and funding options, please visit our website to find out more
Courses at the School of Digital Arts have been developed with leading industry partners to ensure that you attain the industry-ready skills and technical abilities you'll need to gain experience, build a network and launch a career in the creative media, arts and digital tech industries.
MA Animation has two core units and you can select a number of option units. The option units listed below are indicative of what you could choose to study, some option units may have limited availability.
Core units
CO-LAB 6 (ANIMATION)
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE 1 (ANIMATION)
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
Option units
CG INDUSTRY PIPELINE
CRITICAL STUDY
DIGITAL ART ACTIVISM
EXPLORATION IN CG
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE 2 (ANIMATION)
PERSPECTIVES
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
REIMAGINING TECHNOLOGIES
SKILLS IN XR STORYTELLING
SPACES IN XR STORYTELLING
SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITAL ARTS
VFX GROUP PRODUCTION
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