Animation, Games & Computer Graphics

• Web-based distance learning
• Up to 3 years
• Admission enquiries: 01642 342639
• E: scm-undergraduate@tees.ac.uk

You can undertake this web-based distance learning course anywhere in the world; you need a reasonable broadband internet connection. You develop a short animated film, rather than completing a number of separate animation exercises. We help you develop your critical awareness, knowledge, practical skills and appreciation of the process of making an animation – from initial concept to the finish of post production.

Your animation contains character animation and is a unique audio/visual creation which you have crafted carefully from beginning to end. Your work is developed using many industry-accepted principles of animated film production.

What you study

The course is a final-year undergraduate top-up comprising five modules.

How you learn

We deliver the course through an online supportive learning community. Engaging with this online learning community is essential for you to successfully complete the course. We make the physical distance between you and the University as little a barrier as possible to the community learning experience.

You keep an online learning blog (weblog) of your activities during the course. Part of the assessment for each module is based on your blog. What is also important is that, as well as providing a mechanism for assessment, the blog is a learning tool for you. Your blog is visible to the other participants on the course. You update your blog with text, images and movie clips on a regular basis. You use the blog to document your:

• ideas
• research
• decisions you make
• development processes for completing your animation
• and to show any test assets and critically reflect on your work.

How you are assessed

You undertake a series in-course assignments and a major project. The focus of all assessment throughout the course is your short animated film.

Career opportunities

You learn the skills needed for a career in film and TV, multimedia and games, advertising and visualisation. Graduates from our computer animation degrees have gone on to enjoy careers with a wide range of companies including Double Negative, Moving Picture Company and Framestore.

Entry requirements

You must have either:

successfully completed an appropriate programme run by Teesside University, or one of our articulated educational partner institutions

or

successfully completed two years of a relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent), or in exceptional circumstances have a significant quantity of industrial experience.

You must provide a satisfactory portfolio of work. The portfolio should concentrate on:

• hand-drawn observational and concept art
• experience of character modelling, rigging and animation
• knowledge of appropriate 2D and 3D applications.

The portfolio may also contain:

• examples of storyboarding and other pre-production
• hand drawn animation
• graphic design
• photography
• photographs of sculpture work.

Entry is subject to a satisfactory interview.

Where the language of your previous study was not English you need English language ability equivalent to an IELTS score of 6.0.

For additional information please see the undergraduate and postgraduate entry requirements in our admissions section

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