Animation

Animation is one of the most technically demanding and creatively rewarding fields in the creative industries. It combines artistic skill with a command of motion, timing, storytelling, and increasingly complex digital tools to bring characters, worlds, and ideas to life. From feature films and television to games, interactive media, and commercial advertising, animation is a discipline that spans an enormous range of applications and continues to evolve rapidly as technology opens new possibilities for the kinds of stories that can be told and the ways they can be told.

At the University of Brighton, this three-year full-time degree immerses you in the craft of animation within a community designed to help you grow regardless of your starting point. The programme is packed with opportunities to build genuine professional experience: a paid placement after your second year gives you extended time working in the industry, and live briefs with real clients run throughout the course, ensuring that by the time you graduate, you have encountered the kind of brief, deadline, and feedback cycle that professional animation work actually involves. The sandwich placement is a central feature, and work placement experience is woven throughout the programme.

Brighton's inclusive approach means the teaching is shaped to your strengths and learning style, ensuring you develop both technically and creatively in ways that suit you.

You will build skills in character design, movement, digital animation software, narrative, and visual storytelling, developing the broad technical vocabulary and the personal creative voice that define a strong practitioner.

Graduates go on to careers as animators, character designers, motion graphics artists, visual effects artists, game designers, and creative directors in studios, production companies, advertising agencies, and as freelance practitioners. Many also go on to postgraduate study in animation, visual effects, or related creative disciplines. The combination of practical placement experience and creative training means Brighton graduates are well prepared for the realities of professional animation work.