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UCAS code: W615
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Course summary
Explore the unique capabilities of 2D, stop-motion and 3D animation.
Supercharge your skillset using industry-standard tools and techniques.
Share your story, perfect character performance and interpret motion.
Adapt to the ever-evolving landscape of animation-related practice.
Study career routes, plan for festival submission and craft your online portfolio.
Through our industry-focused learning and connections, you’ll learn to embrace innovation and challenge expectations. You’ll develop and showcase your skills in ways that are individual to your creative identity.
How you learn On this course you’ll be based in our bespoke studios, workshops and digital spaces, joining a dynamic and collaborative learning community. With their support you’ll undertake creative adventures, explore possibilities and challenge conventions.
Through our teaching, we’ll unfold your potential to contribute as a creative thinker and doer and apply your knowledge to industry, culture, society and life systems.?The course covers a wide range of topics related to 2D, stop motion and 3D animation?– from storyboarding and animatics to concept art, writing, direction, character animation and performance. You’ll explore model making, set building, art direction, rigging and professional distribution methods – as well as sustainable and ethical animation practices.
You learn through:
studio practice
workshops
technical demonstrations
group and individual tutorials
reviews
lectures
guest lectures
external visits and field trips
film screenings
Key themes Your first year introduces you to the world of professional animation practice. You’ll explore the skills required to develop your own original animated projects and respond to live client briefs.
The second year builds on this learning, focusing on professional portfolio development and the curation of your industry presence – through practice, research, industry interaction and cross-discipline projects.
You can then choose to enter the industry during an optional placement year, working in studios and agencies, or setting up a business of your own.
In your final year you’ll lead industry-focused animated projects, focusing on sustainable production practices and the importance of getting your work seen in festivals and exhibition spaces.
Applied learning We’ve designed the course to embrace real-world challenges and provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to be successful. You’ll develop your expertise in collaboration with various industry, commercial and creative practitioners, clients and organisations.
Work Placements Through a series of work experience?opportunities, you’ll gain knowledge, skills and professional behaviours to help you reflect on your goals, and future career paths. You’ll become more confident, resilient and practised in professional interactions, preparing you to succeed when you graduate.
You’re encouraged and supported to undertake a full-time work placement between your second and third year of the course. Sandwich placements give you valuable additional work experience to help prepare you for your future career. They can have a transformative impact on your personal and professional development, which you can enhance further by completing Sheffield Hallam’s Applied Professional Diploma.
Previous students have gained work experience at local animation studios and thrived as freelance artists – both alongside their studies and through the dedicated placement year. Work experience and placements particularly enhance your final-year student experience, underpinning independent practice with real-world experience.
There are a few options in how you might study Animation at Sheffield Hallam University.
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2 course options available.
Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Department
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Location
Main Site | Sheffield
Duration
4 Years
Study mode
Sandwich
Subjects
• Animation
• Computer animation and visual effects
Start date
September 22, 2025
Application deadline
January 29, 2025
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.
Year 1: Compulsory modules Directing Story: Engaging Audiences Doing Moving: Animation Principles In Motion
Year 2: Compulsory modules Animator Elevator: Careers In Animation Future Now: Collaboration In Action Re-Animator: Character In Motion
Elective modules Study Abroad - Creative Industries
Year 3: Optional modules Placement Year
Final year: Compulsory modules: Beyond Imagination: Professional Animation Production Pure Imagination: Professional Concept Development
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How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?
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How clear is it that students' feedback on the course is acted on?
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The Animation course includes content from more than one subject area. Choose an option below for information about Sheffield Hallam University graduates across each of those subject areas.
Graduate statistics
57%
In a job where degree was essential or beneficial
92%
In work, study or other activity
61%
Say it fits with future plans
55%
Are utilising studies
Top job areas
16%
Web and Multimedia Design Professionals
10%
Design occupations
10%
Sales occupations
8%
Business and public service associate professionals
Graduate statistics
77%
In a job where degree was essential or beneficial
87%
In work, study or other activity
80%
Say it fits with future plans
65%
Are utilising studies
Top job areas
10%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
10%
Caring personal services
10%
Protective service occupations
6%
Business, Research and Administrative Professionals
Graduate statistics
55%
In a job where degree was essential or beneficial
75%
In work, study or other activity
55%
Say it fits with future plans
40%
Are utilising studies
Top job areas
25%
Web and Multimedia Design Professionals
15%
Elementary occupations
15%
Information Technology Professionals
10%
Sales occupations
Graduate statistics
51%
In a job where degree was essential or beneficial
87%
In work, study or other activity
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Say it fits with future plans
40%
Are utilising studies
Top job areas
22%
Artistic, literary and media occupations
15%
Sales occupations
11%
Elementary occupations
9%
Business and public service associate professionals
Graduate statistics percentages are determined 15 months after a student graduates
The Animation course includes content from more than one subject area. Choose an option below for Sheffield Hallam University graduate earnings across each of those subject areas.
Earnings
£23.7k
First year after graduation
£28.1k
Third year after graduation
£32.1k
Fifth year after graduation
Earnings
£17.5k
First year after graduation
£21.9k
Third year after graduation
£23k
Fifth year after graduation
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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree
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