Program Overview

With a toolkit that mixes the creative and the technical, an animator does all this and more. Whether working in the artistic or commercial worlds,animators produce the moving images for anything from film and broadcast media to digital platforms and video games. Our BA (Hons) Animation course brings together key aspects of contemporary professional animation practice to help you prepare for an exciting range of careers, from animation to concept art to games development.

As an animation student you will bepart the School of Digital Arts, avibrant community that offers the chance to explore every aspect of what it means to work in the digital arts. You will work across a range of creative practices just as the professionals doto collaborate on cross-disciplinary group projects, alongside photographers, sound engineers, filmmakers, games and media professionals. And, just as we mirror industry practices, we also work with industry-standard tools learning within a brand new, purpose-builtbuilding that comes equipped with the latest emerging technologies for animation, filmmaking and more.

Manchester offers an ideal setting as an animation student. A global, creative city, it has a long-established history of animation and is home to Cosgrove Hall Films creators of numerous childrens animations and whose company founders were both students of Manchester Metropolitan University. Today the city has a thriving industry, with a significant TV, film and digital production presence at MediaCityUK, which is home to the BBC, ITV and a host of independent media companies, all of which offer you some inspiring opportunities.

With a course thats built on our local heritage and that makes the most of our industry links, youll have the chance to develop the skills, build the network and gain the experience that rewarding careers are made from.

This course is available with the option of afoundation year.