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Bring your imagination to life with our BA (Hons) Animation & Games course. Using the latest 2D and 3D software you'll learn the skills needed to thrive in the top international gaming studios.

Animation & Games Degree Course BA (Hons)

Bring your imagination to life with our BA (Hons) Animation & Games course. Using the latest 2D and 3D software you'll learn the skills needed to thrive…

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Full Time

Part Time

Animation

Content Creation

Game Arts

Media

Production

Sound

Develop and extend your existing knowledge of processes and technologies associated with your field of study, through the exploration of associated methods and materials. You will be introduced to a range of practical methods, processes and techniques, and encouraged to think critically about your subject.
This unit will encompass the essential drawing skills which are fundamental to Animation and Games where you will learn traditional and digital rendering through observational drawing, analog to digital workflow and image editing techniques using Adobe Photoshop on high-definition pen displays such as Cintiq.
This will build into your first interaction with your chosen pathway of Animation and Games.

Focusing on the geographical offerings and potential of a site specific location (e.g. Plymouth or other location), and its surroundings, you will orientate your practice through considering immediate geographies and the relationship of the local to the global. You will develop ways for generating creative ideas in response to a brief, with a primary focus on creative problem solving, methods and materials.
Where Unit 1 is predominantly studio-based, this unit moves out onto location covering the essential skills required in environmental and observational skill based visualization of interiors and exteriors. 
Staying with key fundamental drawing-based techniques, you will use both analogue and digital practice to approach idea generation, conceptualisation and image creation linked to creating environments. This process will allow you to test new and experimental approaches as part of your focused creative practice.

Engage with subject-specific ideas and applications, encouraging critical reflection on your individual creative practice and subject within the larger creative arts domain. You will be supported to undertake an imaginative approach to your subject that challenges historical and cultural assumptions.
This is an introduction to the core skills and software used in digital pre-visualisation in games and animation. You will be introduced to software packages used in industry and taught some of the key skills used in navigation and visual based design problems.
You will be expected to find your own answer to the design problems using the techniques presented. Using a range of 2D and 3D applications, you produce a range of visual elements in response to a design brief.

Focus on collaboration as a practice, way of working and experience. Share your skills in pursuit of creative problem solving through mutual interest and cooperative approaches, while being introduced to methodologies from other disciplines.
This unit explores the increasingly blurred distinctions and areas of convergence between related creative disciplines, such as Animation, Game Arts and Creative Technologies.
You will work in creative teams to produce a range of digital content, developing production skills in Adobe Photoshop, Unreal and immersive technologies. This cross-disciplinary, project-based orientation encourages collaboration in developing your problem-solving skills within work-based pipelines, and looks at culturally and aesthetically divergent elements within your chosen area of practice.

Enhance your awareness of research-informed practice, the role of risk and failure, and the adoption of new or unfamiliar methodologies in developing creative practice. You will focus on the critical and practical processes used for idea generation, propositional and hypothetical creative outputs, rather than finished outcomes.
This unit is all about developing your creativity. You will be introduced to a higher level of the Animation and Games equipment, including 3D sculpting and modelling systems and animation rigging for character creation using industry-standard digital workflow.
You will be encouraged to explore and experiment with new technologies to begin to develop your own distinctive visual style. This will include practise-lead visual development and research to immerse yourself in your chosen creative pathway.

Think deeper about how creative solutions might help solve real-world challenges. Draw on expertise and ideas from the arts and sciences to provide alternative propositions for solution-focussed practical enquiry.
Dealing with obstacles and challenges is a regular part of creative engagement and this unit introduces you the tools to overcome and transform these challenges. In order to be fully expressive in the use of technology, you will identify methods of creative thinking and discipline that lead to innovative solutions that work. By encouraging "divergent" and "convergent" thinking to find real-world solutions, you will be taught how to use your own creative practice to engage with wider issues linked to art, culture and technology.
Through this engagement with wider culture, you will realise the potential reach of your work and begin to identify the creative influences that exist in the world around you. This unit will have a unique thematic brief that will be shared by all courses, which will give it an urgency around notions such as climate change, social equity, migration, automation, and other timely topics that will be shared by your peers in other subjects.

Through the use of real-world scenarios (live or simulated), you will be encouraged to use the methods, knowledge and understanding gained in previous study to place your work in relevant professional and creative contexts in order to facilitate knowledge transfer into the public domain.
This unit requires you to begin situating your practice in commercial contexts. You will initiate and manage a series of Animation and Games production projects to professional standards, typically working on live client briefs.
Alongside the practical productions you will also develop your professional understanding, covering important aspects such as legal, ethical and financial considerations associated with entrepreneurship and creative business practices.
This will also require a developing understanding of the industry and its current trends and key requirements, and will act as a scaffolding to your creative practice and the potential for micro-commissions in your study at the university.

Develop individual authorship in your creative practice, and ownership of your learning through a self-initiated project. You will be introduced to methods for managing and producing an independent creative project, developing skills in project articulation and management to include consideration for project scope, time and resources management.
Building on all of the creative, practical and professional skills acquired in previous units, Emergent Practice will provide you with the freedom to explore and express your creative and professional identity.
In addition to producing an independent creative project which considers your audience and the context of your production, you will also begin to explore personal style and expressive intent.
Taking advice from your tutors you will be encouraged to produce a body of work that enhances your understanding of the skills required to discover more about your developing creative practice and how to direct to appropriate narrative industries and creative networks.

Arts University Plymouth offers a year long sandwich year option. Framed within the institution’s innovative Common Unit Framework, the sandwich year experience is offered as a unit that contributes to your BA (Hons) Degree.
The sandwich year can take the form of an internship or work placement, and can take place in the UK or abroad. It is intended to give you the possibility of gaining experience in art and design practice in a ‘real life’ industry setting, before you return to complete the final year of your degree. You will be able to build your CV and, if you choose to take on your sandwich year outside of the UK, enhance your experience of international creative practice.
Sandwich year placements will be selected by each student who wishes to take one, assisted by Course staff within AUP. Opportunities may also come through corporate approaches to AUP or through links built by your course tutors. Each placement opportunity will be reviewed by the University before being approved to ensure its suitability to be part of your course. During the Sandwich Year you remain enrolled at AUP with access to IT and your email accounts, online library and learning support.
Once approved, the sandwich year will count towards your overall degree and completion of it will be acknowledged on your degree certificate.
<a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/sandwich-year" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to read more about the Sandwich Year at Arts University Plymouth.</a>
Queries regarding the Arts University Plymouth Sandwich Year placement or internship option can be sent to <a href="mailto:registry@aup.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">registry@aup.ac.uk</a>.

You will be encouraged to further refine your aims and ambitions for your final year of study, by formulating and testing out ideas for your Final Project. You will present a creative pitch that outlines the key concepts and methods behind your project and demonstrates knowledge and understanding of appropriate contextual and professional frameworks.

You will produce a research-informed critical text that contextualises your research interests and demonstrates sustained critical engagement with your subject. This could be an extended critical essay or industry report; or an original publication (text &amp; image) and accompanying critical essay.

This unit will extend your understanding and consideration of appropriate audiences, end-users and markets for your work, and raise your awareness of industry-relevant technologies, techniques and innovations. Your learning will support the articulation of your personal career ambitions, informed by an awareness of professional contexts and graduate opportunities for creative practice.

The culmination of your undergraduate study providing a focussed period of consolidation and creativity, you will have the opportunity to realise a final major project to demonstrate your specialist knowledge and skills. At the end of the unit, you will have the opportunity to present this project to the public within the context of the annual AUP Summer Shows.
Please note unit details listed above are correct at time of publication and indicative content only. If you have any questions about course content and structure please email<a href="mailto:liaison@aup.ac.uk"> liaison@aup.ac.uk</a>

Our unit structure applies to all of our undergraduate courses and creates a culture that promotes curiosity and creative thinking that extends beyond subject boundaries. Thematic approaches encourage an environment of free-flowing creative learning and opportunities for collaboration. Each unit will be contextualised by the subject specialism, and delivery will manifest uniquely through the specialist lens of each course.
Browse through the Year One, Two and Three headings to see what you'll cover during the course of this degree. For more detailed information, including the content of each unit, assessment criteria and reading lists, take a look at the full course information within our <a href="https://pca.objects.frb.io/production/files/courses/2023/UG-Course-Specification-Forms-and-Unit-Specification-Forms-2324/BA-Hons-Animation-Games-Unit-Specification-Forms.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Unit Specification Form</a> and our <a href="https://pca.objects.frb.io/production/files/courses/2023/UG-Course-Specification-Forms-and-Unit-Specification-Forms-2324/BA-Hons-Animation-Games-Course-Specification-Form-2023-24.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Course Specification Form</a> documents. To request alternative formats of the full Unit or Course Specification Form, please email <a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a>.

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