Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University is home to two Bachelor degrees that revolve around animation:

BA Digital Animation: Digital Animation explores the changing face of a popular art form: bringing images to life. Students explore the fundamentals of animation practice within the latest technological advances and trends: drawing, image making crafts, computer graphics, stop-frame animation, coding, 3D modelling, 2D motion graphics and compositing. These skills are tested through a variety of modern applications such as outdoor projection, virtual reality, augmented reality, film, TV, online video, computer games, the web and mobile apps. The combination of these technical skills with research into the contexts, history and theory of animation and narrative practice ensure both practical ability and critical literacy in Digital Animation students.

BA Creative Computing (Animation): This course teaches core skills essential to animation and digital creativity, including software development (C languages, Java), asset creation (Adobe, Autodesk) and web app deployment (HTML5, JavaScript, PHP). These technical elements are complemented by critical insights into animation from industry specialists. Specific Animation modules uncover the nuances of compelling character design, scripting, storyboarding, image-making, collaborative working and showreel compilation. Students of this course explore how animation is used to grab attention, communicate effectively, improve understanding and make a lasting impression.

Specialties: animation- and/or programming-centered art skills, depending on which course

Course language: English

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Links

• The digital animation course page
• The creative computing page
• Vimeo page of the IFS

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