Course delivery
We believe it is important to experiment with all types of media to truly find your artistic voice. And that this process should always be fun, challenging, and dynamic.
Typically teaching sessions will be two to three hours long – with a mix of presentation, demonstration and practical exploration of techniques and processes. Our dedicated technician will be on hand to assist in some sessions and afterwards becomes your go-to person for additional help with both traditional practical work and software-based work.
After the initial explorative semester that looks at all types of animation you will be able to focus on your own pathway of either 2D Digital, 3D Digital or Stop Motion animation. From this point you can concentrate on one type of animation to maximise your time and strengthen your skill base. However, if you choose to change pathways or want to continue experimenting with different media, we will support that too. This is all about finding a balance between giving you time to focus your skills while also giving you space to creatively explore. Hybrid animation which combines more than one pathway is becoming more popular and we support that too.
You will often be given take-away tasks that are designed to push what you learnt further in your independent study time.
Class sizes vary between 25 to 30 in an all-level session and 5 to 15 for a pathway-based specific techniques. Small groups of 2 or 3 also happen in areas that benefit from small groups, for example VR or resin casting.
Module Assignments are broken up into milestones throughout the semesters to help us keep you on track throughout the year.