This is a one-year research-based MSc with a focus on Digital Animation. We promote research in a broad sense to include practice-led research. So the programme includes the development of digital animations as a medium for exploring and testing research ideas. The programme will explore the uses of digital animation in many modes of research. Animation features prominently in the visualisation of built forms, the presentation and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, and in various simulations. Interaction design that involves computers and communications networks makes increasing uses of animation, from moving icons to full-scale spatial simulations in virtual environments. The programme also provides an opportunity for students to enhance business and management skills in the creative industries as they pertain to digital animation.

On completing the programme students should be able to: Compare and contrast different approaches to digital animation and learn from the work of others; Contribute to debate on issues of creativity, design, innovation and digital animation; Produce work that contributes to the creative discourses surrounding digital animation.