Course summary

• Build a portfolio of work to a professional standard, ready to showcase to prospective employers.
• Utilise the latest technology and equipment in our state-of-the-art facilities.
• Acquire and improve your knowledge of animation and digital effects.
• Boost your employability through industry-specific interview training, networking and workshops.
• Develop intellectual and critical approaches to your own and others' creative work.

Computer Animation provides you with the practical and conceptual skills you need to make an impact in the creative industries. You'll build a portfolio and reinforce it with sound theoretical knowledge and graduate ready for exciting, challenging career opportunities.

 How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

MA Computer Animation can be taken over one or two years and is angled toward flexible, independent work. The course allows for the development of your own professional identity and portfolio, though you'll collaborate with others on problem-solving and through peer evaluation. You'll acquire a wide-ranging practical and theoretical skill set in the first two trimesters of the course and develop a specialism in the third.

You learn through:

• lab-based tutorials, workshops, critique sessions and seminars
• practical tasks and projects
• one-to-one project supervision
• technical workshops
• guest speakers and masterclasses

 Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• film and VFX
• television
• animation
• advertising
• game development
• motion graphics
• web content creation
• technical direction
• concept art

 Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Modules studied may differ depending on when you start your course.