BDes Hons Animation aims to provide you with specialist knowledge and skills necessary to develop and adapt your chosen career in the diverse creative practices associated with interactive design and animation. The course aims to contribute, through the education of its students as adaptive and resilient designers, writers and thinkers, to the local, national and international practice of design in its current and future forms The aims of the course are to: Enable you to acquire a high degree of knowledge, understanding and experience through the practice of animation; and to acquire a high level of practical, conceptual and aesthetic skills and the critical means to integrate them in design problem-solving; Enable you to pursue a high level of intellectual enquiry, independence and critical awareness through academic conventions and through the creative practice of animation; Offer the opportunity to work collaboratively, on live projects, industry generated initiative and competitions, in order to gain essential work based learning experience and develop the transferable skills essential to succeed in the creative industries; Enable you to acquire experiences, skills and knowledge appropriate to the professional contexts of design interaction and animation. For students on the Diploma in Professional Practice (DPP) International (DPP) programme: Enhance an understanding of professional Practice; Develop personal and professional skills. For students on the Diploma in International Academic Studies (DIAS) programme: Enhance an understanding of another cultural educational environment; Develop self-reliance and independence.

Career options Graduates with skills in computer animation have many well-paid career opportunities available to them. Students have been working on projects such as VFX on "Game of Thrones" for HBO and concept art for 16 South here in Belfast as well as many other companies in both animation production and video games. Character Animator Concept Artist Modeller Storyboard Artist Technical Director Visual FX Artist.