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Course Overview

Animation has become an 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 course, you will study drawing, the principles of animation and design, storytelling and narrative, design, and the history, practice, and theory of screen production. You will gain an understanding of creative and technical processes using industry-standard software in order to create interactive designs and computer animations.

As animation is a highly collaborative environment you will learn the principles and practices through teamwork while developing your individual professional practice. The course enables you to enter the industry with a range of exciting and rapidly evolving platforms as well as facilitating numerous opportunities for employment in a rapidly growing area at an international level.

The course aims to contribute, through the education of its students as adaptive and resilient designers, writers, and thinkers, to the local, national and international practice of design in its current and future forms.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

A level

The A Level requirement for this course is BCC.

Applicants can satisfy the requirement for one of the A level grades (or equivalent) by substituting a combination of alternative qualifications recognized by the University.

Applied General Qualifications

Overall award profile BTEC Level 3 QCF Extended Diploma DDM.

Overall award profile BTEC Level 3 RQF National Extended Diploma DMM.

Irish Leaving Certificate

104 UCAS Tariff Points to include a minimum of 4 subjects at Higher Level and 1 subject at Ordinary Level. The overall profile must include English at minimum Grade H6 or above (HL) or O4 or above (OL).

Scottish Highers

The Scottish Highers requirement for this course is BCCCC.

Scottish Advanced Highers

The Scottish Advanced Highers requirement for this course is CDD.

International Baccalaureate

Overall International Baccalaureate profiles minimum 24 points (12 at a higher level).

Access to Higher Education (HE)

Successful completion of Access Course with an average mark of 60% in Level 3 modules.

GCSE

GCSE Profile to include the English Language at minimum grade C.

English Language Requirements

The minimum requirement for this course is Academic IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5. Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement for Tier 4 visa purposes.

Ulster recognizes a number of other English language tests and comparable IELTS equivalent scores.

Fees

Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Fees

£4530.

England Scotland Wales the Islands and EU Fees

£9250.

International Fees

£14910.


This information was accurate on : 13/04/2021
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