DIGITAL ANIMATION - BA (HONS)

This cutting-edge BA program will develop your skills across Digital Animation practice conventions. You will be taught by established practitioners, who will provide their knowledge of 2D and 3D animation disciplines.

The course is part of Birmingham City University’s Film suite, designed to develop graduates with knowledge of the theory, practice, and industry trends that will enable them to succeed in a rapidly changing industry environment.

WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS COURSE?

The course will help you establish the core art fundamentals, such as anatomy, gesture, pose, weight distribution, perspective, and composition, and an understanding of how they underpin digital animation practice. You will also learn about the 12 principles of animation required to create engaging animation performance, whether you choose a Film/Television or Games/Interactive pathway. The course will introduce you to industry-standard project management and pipeline methodologies that mirror industry production procedures.

Depending upon the route you choose to take on the course (Film/TV or Game/Interactive) you will produce a range of assessed material including but not exclusive to:

• Storyboards & story-reels
• Animation foundation exercises
• Performance animations
• Specialist portfolios and showreels
• Short films, made collaboratively, demonstrating animation principles and pipelines
• Game animation sets, demonstrated within the Unity and Unreal game engines

A key focus of this course is developing performance within character animation. You will develop acting techniques that will promote the development of your inner actor to project performance through your characters. You will also develop an understating of and demonstrate visual storytelling, with ‘show don’t tell’ philosophies.

While theoretical and practice-based considerations of animation techniques and principles remain a central focus of the award, the course also provides shared modules within the School’s film and games courses, offering wider collaborative opportunities which help provide core skills relevant to the industry.

Essential Requirements: 

• 112 UCAS tariff points from A/AS Level with a minimum of 2 A Levels.

IELTS: 

• 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each band.

You will learn of range of skills which will be key to enhancing your future employability.

Specifically, you will learn to:

• Develop your own practice within a professional context that would enable future employment options in the Animation industry.
• Identify the relationship of theory to practice and effectively demonstrating it through your work.
• Produce animation shorts, effective animation pipeline to a professional standard.
• Work independently and collaboratively.
• Be a self-motivated, organised and independent effective learner.
• Be confident in showcasing your work for critique and highly reflective of your processes.