Animation Workshops

The Animation facilities form part of the Media Centre within the Faculty.
The Media Centre has three main departments, which are housed across three buildings on the College Road Campus. In the main Production and Post Production area we have a wide range of portable equipment, filming and recording facilities and post production to allow you to create film and sound projects to a high quality. In Animation we have facilities to produce a range of animated products including Stop Motion, Motion Capture, Chroma keying, Line testing as well as the latest animation software to produce cutting edge animated graphics. In the Broadcast Newsroom we have a state of the art TV news set for producing news bulletins as well as editing and newsgathering facilities alongside the Radio studios. Our print newsroom provides a real newspaper environment to generate and create news content.

Our animation department specialises in supporting Animation, 3-D Character Animation, Stop-Motion and Puppet Making and Visual Effects. We are constantly advancing our facilities and equipment to keep us at the fore of the animation and film effects industry. This ensures that our students are competent in practical aspects of production and confident working with new technologies, which will become of increasing importance as they enter the employment sector.



Stop Motion Studios

These rooms are fully equipped with camera rigs, lighting kits and computers with Stop Motion Pro HD software for frame by frame capturing.



Animation Studio
The animation studio has a range of facilities to suit Animation students in a range of disciplines. We have:- line testing stations equipped with cameras and lighting, light boxes, PC’s (with Toonboom, Photoshop, After Effects, Motion builder, Mud Box and Word Processing software) and Mac Pro computers (with Maya, Corel Painter, Photoshop CS5, ToonBoom Studio Pro, Harmony, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, iDVD, Combustion, Nuke and Microsoft Office). The area is fully supported by technicians with practical working knowledge of the software and the animation industry.

CGI Workshop
This room is the centre of post-production in the animation department boasting a number of Apple edit suites and relevant animation software. Our Mac Pro. stations support – Nuke, Maya and Motion capture, ToonBoom, Final Cut Studio 6, Photoshop CS5 Suite, Storyboard, Combustion and Corel Paint. The CGI workshop supports post-production teaching hosted by a qualified technician and/or media practitioners and is open access for students preparing their own projects.



Chroma Green Room

With the advancement of CGI and computer animation in recent years the Media Centre has a Motion Capture suit for student use. The Chroma Green room supports the filming of Motion Capture. We have a chroma green infinity wall and professional lighting rig for students to film themselves interacting with animated characters.

We have a highly dedicated team who technically support all departments of the Media Centre. All of our front line technical staff have been trained in Apples Final Cut Pro series, along with many other software applications. All our technical staff are media graduates and many still undertake their own media work.