The Illustration Animation BA (Hons) - the UK's first degree in Illustration Animation - at Kingston School of Art combines narrative and time-based subjects to give the undergraduate complete creative freedom to engage in visual thinking, expression and communication.

BSBI, in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), offers the BA (Hons) Animation programme, introducing students to the fundamentals of the creative industry and offering the opportunity to launch a career in animation.

BA (Hons) Animation is an interdisciplinary programme designed to prepare students for careers in the animation, games, and film industries. The course integrates both traditional and cutting-edge techniques, emphasising real-time 2D and 3D visual technologies. With a focus on performance-based animation, character design, and production workflows, students gain hands-on experience in creating animation for various media, from film and television to games.

Our degree in animation is designed to provide all the skills you need to get into the film, TV, visual FX, or video game industries. This animation degree covers a range of subjects, from 2D and 3D animation and storytelling to the technical computer graphic skills you need for animation practice.

Animation is one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide. It has been a huge technological development in the last decade, from traditional 2D hand-drawn to digital 3D animation. In today’s digital world, the application of animation isn’t simply restricted to films. It facilitates exciting career opportunities in various sectors like Advertising, Print media, TV production and Gaming.

Our exciting specialist course will enable you to develop your imaginative and creative skills while giving you a sound knowledge and understanding of animation processes, techniques and critical theory. Commercial animation is a rapidly growing and vibrant industry, encompassing a broad range of rewarding and fascinating creative job opportunities. Our strong emphasis on creative practice will help you to develop your skills in drawing and design, along with the imaginative development and innovation of ideas expressed sequentially. These skills, together with the professional practice aspects of the course, will ensure that you have the confidence and expertise to succeed in the industry, whether as a producer, technician, designer or manager. You’ll also develop the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development. Throughout the course, there are opportunities for you to take part in national and international competitions and film festivals. Our course is delivered by a large team of experienced animation practitioners, staff and industry visitors, and you’ll work in dedicated specialist animation studios with facilities for blue screen, rostrum animation, CGI, drawing, stop-frame, film, photography, set building, sound and video. Successful animators need to be flexible and able to adapt to changing cultures and new initiatives, and our course seeks to reflect this fluidity. You’ll rapidly develop your own practice in animation, and will be encouraged to work on shared initiatives. Based at our Harrow Campus – home to the Westminster School of Arts and the Westminster School of Media and Communications – you’ll work alongside students from film, photography, music, fashion and journalism, in a unique creative hothouse.

This course aims to provide 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.

Animation and Visual Effects at Lincoln offers an introduction to the innovative world of animation and visual effects through moving images, digital visualisation, and contemporary narrative. The course enables students to develop into creative animators and artists with the flexibility to practise their craft in a variety of media.

Bring characters and worlds to life at SCAD, a top-ranked animation program. Master 2D, 3D, and stop-motion animation, digital modeling, rigging, and lighting. With cutting-edge resources and collaborations with industry leaders, you'll refine your style and teamwork skills—preparing for a thriving animation career.

Gain a powerful insight into the world of visual effects production, digital arts and animation with all the tools, techniques and practical experience required to succeed as one of tomorrow's industry professionals. Subject areas include 2D and 3D animation, filmmaking, post-production, motion design, matte painting, digital compositing, visual effects supervising, creative coding, audiovisual installations and interactive art.

Azusa Pacific University's Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Visual Effects will prepare you to make a difference in a creative and growing industry. Learn to bring characters, creatures, and objects to life in stories you create in this animation degree program with classes covering animation’s many facets and cultivate your narrative techniques with a comprehensive cinematic arts curriculum.

Bachelor in Computer Arts is a dynamic, interdisciplinary program blending artistic creativity with cutting-edge digital technology. Taught in English, it is designed for students passionate about animation, game design, 3D graphics, and visual effects, aiming to shape the future of digital art.

The Bachelor's degree in Digital Arts offers specialized training in design, conception and production with a focus on animation and games as well as other areas such as audio, video and mixed reality. The training emphasizes practical implementation in a professional and interdisciplinary environment.

For non-art majors interested in a career in Animation or preparation for graduate study in Animation, the Animation Minor offers broad-based training in this field of art.

The BA (Hons) Animation course helps you combine visual ideas with sound and time to create an on screen experience for your audience.The BA (Hons) Animation course helps you combine visual ideas with sound and time to create an on screen experience for your audience. On this course you learn: ideas generation, visual storytelling, storyboarding, scriptwriting, sound design, character design, character animation, experimental animation, 2D animation, 3D animation, stop motion animation, film editing and compositing.