BA(Hons)

Animation

3 good reasons to study Animation at Salford:

Links with top animation and post production companies
Go on to a career in digital animation, TV and digital media
Emphasis on developing both creative and digital technology skills from a range of core and elective modules

This course enables you to explore and understand the creative potential of digital animation. Practical teaching of core skills combines with industry standard applications and techniques to offer you the chance to develop industry-relevant animation production skills. It provides a structured pathway in digital animation practice and encourages creativity in the context of real world practice. This inventive and demanding course enables you to identify and define your own employment plans and prospects in this specialised field. There will be a range of elective modules to choose from during the first and second year. The course is based at MediaCityUK.

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Course details

Year 1

The first year introduces you to industry standard 3D software and techniques. You will receive tuition in traditional stop frame animation techniques to underpin and inform your computer generated animation projects. You will study the history of animation and explore the generation of concepts and the processes required to create animation. You will also choose from elective modules which focus on drawing for animation, digital narrative technology, editing and the creative and technical rigours of sound and music within digital production.

Core modules:

Animation 1 (Introduction)
Visual Arts
History of Animation
Animation 2 (Production)

Optional modules

Drawing for Animators
Creative Media Analysis
Introduction to Digital Editing
Creative Sound and Music

Year 2

The second year further develops your skills and concepts. You will produce creative projects allowing you to design and develop a character and then animate it utilising both stop frame and computer generated 3D techniques. A video compositing module enables you to combine production processes and incorporate sound and music into creative digital projects. You will also produce short projects featuring production management aspects and entrepreneurial techniques in order to align you with business and industry.

Optional modules:

Animation Production
3D Character Creation
Character Animation
Animation and Compositing with Sound

Optional modules:

Digital Narrative Technologies
Digital Environment Art

Year 3

The modules in the third year allow you the freedom to plan and develop your own content and production methods. The Creative Portfolio Development module will enable you to produce your individual show reel. You will have developed specialisms from the broad range of targeted study in previous levels and both the Practice Based Dissertation and portfolio modules will enable you to promote yourself to the animation and related media industries.

Core modules

Creative Artefact Production Planning
Practice Based Dissertation
Creative Portfolio Development

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