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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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-[[File:Filmschule Köln Schanzenstrasse28.jpg|alt=Filmschule Köln - von https://de-de.facebook.com/filmschule/|thumb]]
+[[File:BathSpaUniversity FotobyChrisWakefield.jpg|alt=The Bath Spa Animation campus|thumb]]
-[https://www.filmschule.de/ Die Internationale Filmschule] is located in Köln, Germany's film and tv hotspot. The BA Film has a [https://www.filmschule.de/lehre/lehrgebiete/vfx-animation/ specialisation in VFX/Animation], which works closely together with the other specialisations (directing, camera, etc...) to learn the basics of dramaturgy, filmproduction, and together create elaborate and fantastic shortfilms. Within industry-standard workflows and programs they learn everything from professional effects-creation to 3D animation. Students can focus more and more on their chosen interests during their studies and further specialise within the area of vfx/animation. In the VFX-seminars, the combination of real images and digitally produced elements are in the focus. From planning, to supervising on-set, to finally reaching the compositing stage, students learn how to implement computergenerated effects, sets, props and cahracters into filmed material. Meanwhile, in the animation-seminars they learn the principles and tools for animating, to later practice the entire pipeline of a 3D-animated film: from character design to rendering.
+Bath Spa University is home to two Bachelor degrees that revolve around animation:
-'''Specialties''': sfx / vfx, cgi, live-action video work, greenscreening, post-prod
+'''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.
-'''Course language:'''  German
+'''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
 == Exchange Reports ==
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 == Links ==
-* [https://www.filmschule.de/lehre/lehrgebiete/vfx-animation/ The Filmschule Köln's VFX/Animation department (course info and overview)]
+* [https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/courses/ug-digital-animation/ The digital animation course page]
+* The creative computing page
 * [https://vimeo.com/filmschule Vimeo page of the IFS]