Course General Description

With an alumni featuring Oscar and BAFTA winners as well as creators of iconic animated characters such as Peppa Pig, Fantastic Mr Fox, Compare the Market’s ‘Meerkats’ campaign and Hey Duggee, our BA (Hons) Animation degree is one of the best-known and highly-regarded courses of its kind in the world. The key to the enormous success of this course and its graduates is the creative freedom students are given to discover and develop their own personal style, while being guided by a team of highly experienced and well-connected industry professionals. So, whether you want to make animated films using CGI, traditional drawing, oil on glass, sand animation or pixilation – whatever your preferred medium - you will be encouraged to follow your passions and aim high for your future career in the industry. Established in 1972 by Academy Award winner Bob Godfrey as the UK’s first course to take an academic approach to animation, we pride ourselves on giving our students a comprehensive understanding of frame-by-frame image manipulation using the growing range of creative techniques. You’ll develop a deeper understanding of narrative, character development, movement, sound, and the full range of expressive and personal filmmaking techniques contemporary animation now uses.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.