Animation
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W615 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W615 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Must include at least three subjects at Higher Level.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
Become a highly skilled animator ready for a rewarding creative career on this practice-based Animation degree course.
You will learn screen-based 2D and 3D animation, as well as motion graphics, title sequences, narrative and video editing for promotional design, infographics and music promotion.
We place an emphasis on creative and imaginative outcomes and embrace alternative and innovative approaches to construction, visualisation and interaction.
Our connections with local media organisations mean there are exciting opportunities available for work experience, field trips, collaboration and live projects.
**TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE**
- We take an experimental approach and blur the boundaries between digital and analogue processes.
- You will be learning in a city with a thriving digital industry with opportunities for building connections.
- We integrate theory and practice, so you graduate with a strong foundation in both fields.
- During your degree you will explore a range of design approaches.
- Your lecturers are a team of industry professionals.
- You will use specialist software and equipment.
- There is an emphasis on storytelling through imaginative projects using linear and non-linear narratives.
- Animation is explored in response to contemporary culture and society.
- There are opportunities to collaborate with other disciplines including music, sound art and design.
- A placement in your final year – our media students have carried out placements in organisations including Ricochet, BBC Good Food and Olive Magazine, Absolute Radio, Brighton and Hove Green Party, Lowkey Films, Bauer Media and Brighton Dome.
- Opportunities to exhibit work and the end of the degree you participate in the graduate show, a large-scale exhibition.
- Follow our course on Instagram: @animationbrighton
Modules
Year 1
Animation Principles and Practice
Sequence and Narrative
Introduction to Animation
Historical and Critical Studies
Year 2
Virtual Studio
Visual Language and Personal Voice
Advanced Animation
Historical and Critical Studies 2
Global Challenges – Visual Communication
Final Year
Context and Consolidation
Virtual Studio: Animation
Professional Practice
Extended Research Project
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