Animation (Hons) Ulster University

Overview

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 Animation (Hons) degree at Ulster University you will gain an understanding of creative and technical process using industry standard software in order to create interactive designs and computer animations.

Career options

Graduates with skills in computer animation have many well-paid career opportunities available to them. Students have secured positions in national and international studios including Humain, Sixteen South, Paper Owl, Taunt, Jam Media, Flickerpix, Alt, Billygoat, MPC, Framestore, Feed Me Light, The Mill, and BlueZoo. Our Students have worked in diverse roles in industry including VFX artists on HBO's "Game of Thrones", Animators and Layout Artists for John Stevenson's "Middle Watch", Environment Artists for MPC, Concept Artists for Sixteen South and Paper Owl as well as many other companies in both animation production, Film, TV, Architectural Visualisation, animation for educational content, and video games.