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Animation - BDes (Hons)

Ulster University

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Design (with Honours) - BDes (Hon)

  • Location

    Belfast Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-26

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Animation at Ulster is a studio focused, highly creative course, specialising in computer animation for games, VFX, feature and TV animation. Animation has become in integral part of the film, television, games and design industries – from Jurassic Park to Avatar, Angry Birds to Call of Duty, Xbox to mobile. The field of animation has experienced unprecedented growth in recent years. With new distribution methods and technologies, your work will have many paths to reach a worldwide audience. During the course you will study drawing, the principles of animation and design, storytelling and narrative, design and the history, practice and theory of screen production. You will gain an understanding of creative and technical process using industry standard software in order to create interactive designs and computer animations. As animation is a highly collaborative environment you will learn the principles and practices through teamwork, while developing your individual professional practice. The course enables you to enter the industry with a range of exciting and rapidly evolving platforms as well as facilitating numerous opportunities for employment in a rapidly growing area at an international level. This course aims to provide you with specialist knowledge and skills necessary to develop and adapt your chosen career in the diverse creative practices associated with 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.Full-Time - 3 year FT degree or 4 year with placement year

Tuition fees

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£ 16,320per year

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University information

Ulster University

Ulster University

Ulster University

  • University League Table

    54th

  • Campus address

    Ulster University, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland

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Renowned for its warm welcome, Ulster attracts international students from over 70 countries across the globe and has over 245,000 alumni worldwide.
Ulster delivers a first-class UK university experience with the added benefit of being one of the UK's friendliest and most affordable locations.
An international student advisory team provides a tailored orientation programme. They also offer support to international students throughout their studies.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Art & Design

    45th out of 83 21

  • Entry standards

    / Max 228
    130 57%

    38th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    66.0 66%

    35th

    2

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    44th

    5

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