3 years full time, 4 years sandwich with work placement Why take this course? If you fancy yourself as a concept creator, storyteller, designer, artist or animator with an eye for visual quality, then this course may be of interest. It combines the artistic and creative aspects of animation with the required practical and technical expertise. Our course also enables you to specialise in an area of your choice. What will I experience? On this course you can: Be involved in the production of the University’s own feature length film Go on visual research trips with the animation production team Benefit from the expertise of our staff who have had previous experience on a vast array of films from Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter and Narnia franchises

Our graduates are pursuing exciting careers in a variety of jobs. They are working in a range of roles as artists, modellers, animators, compositors, editors and directors in these creative and rewarding industries. Graduates from this course have been successful in finding work with these big names: Climax Framestore The Mill Data Design Interactive Sony Kuju Games Centroid 3d in Pinewood Studios Examples of what our graduates have gone on to do: James Roberts went straight to work as a visual artist for Framestore, a Bafta and Oscar-winning studio. His credits include The Dark Knight, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Quantum of Solace, Australia and Where the Wild Things Are. He was recently short-listed for the 2008 4Talent 'Multi-talented' award. He has just finished his new film called Dementia: Till Death Us Do Part. Mat Harrad won the Excellence Awards for 3D Design – Computer Arts Magazine 2007 and went on to work for Sony just after his graduation.