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Animation Production at Arts University Bournemouth - UCAS

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2025 - 20262026 - 2027
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This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

Arts University Bournemouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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11Oct
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8Nov
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Course summary

Why Choose Us?

  • Team-based film projects help you develop knowledge of your specialist role within an animation production team.
  • Workshops enhance your understanding of storyboarding, concept design, advanced animation, and post-production fundamentals.
  • Optional workshops allow you to develop specialist technical skills in 2D drawn, CGI, and stop-motion animation.
  • You’ll have opportunities to enhance your practice through industry placements, exchanges with other universities, or immersive experiences at the Bournemouth Film School (BFS), which is accredited by CILECT and Screenskills.
Unleash Your Creativity BA (Hons) Animation Production lets you excel as a creative and critical practitioner in animation, illustration, video games, and visual effects. Our practical, studio-driven approach starts with traditional 2D animation drawing, ensuring that foundational skills in drawing and painting support the production of various animation forms, including hand-drawn, stop-motion, and CGI. What to Expect You will engage in workshops, seminars, and lectures that introduce the fundamental principles of animation. You’ll learn both traditional techniques and contemporary software while developing observational drawing skills. Optional pathways allow you to acquire professional skills in areas such as storyboarding, character design, and visual development. The course emphasizes the connection between animation practice and its critical and theoretical contexts, fostering independent study, research, and analysis to enrich your creative abilities and critical reflection. Cultivating Career-Ready Skills with a Professional Placement To thrive in the competitive animation industry, you’ll need strong production skills, practical knowledge, professional responsibility, and awareness of industry contexts. We prepare skilled and socially aware practitioners to adapt to industry changes at local, national, and international levels. Learning occurs in a simulated studio environment, supporting industry techniques and professional role awareness, with access to industry professionals through guest lectures and portfolio reviews. Between your second and third academic years, you can opt for a Professional Placement Year, where you secure your own placement with support from your course team. The decision to take this option can be made later, allowing flexibility as you study. By the End of the Course You Will Be Able To:
  • Articulate your understanding of animation as a collaborative process.
  • Demonstrate specialist skills to enhance career opportunities and postgraduate study prospects.
  • Explain the relationship between the practice, theory, and history of animation.
  • Use research skills to express analytical and aesthetic awareness.
  • Show professional competence and management abilities in a team context.
  • Self-evaluate progress and engage in self-directed learning.
  • Adapt as a skilled and socially aware practitioner within the evolving industry landscape.
Part of the Bournemouth Film School (BFS) Choosing BA (Hons) Animation Production at Arts University Bournemouth offers you an exceptional opportunity within the Bournemouth Film School (BFS), a recognized leader in the Screen and Creative Industries for over 60 years. In 2025, we will begin an expansion that will impact the Screen industries locally, nationally, and globally, integrating new practices and celebrating cultural diversity. Our commitment to shaping the future is exemplified by our BFS Funding Futures program, which connects schools, graduates, students, and industry partners in a collaborative and innovative ecosystem.

Assessment method

Coursework and practical work

How to apply

This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

14Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W615
Institution code:
A66
Campus name:
Main Site - Arts University Bournemouth
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please see AUB's website for a full list of our entry requirements, including tariff points where applicable. We are happy to accept a wide range of qualifications, including but not limited to: A Levels, BTEC Extended Diploma, OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma, BTEC Subsidiary Diploma(s), Access to HE courses, Scottish Highers, IB Diploma Programme, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. We can also accept many EU and International qualifications. See website for details. Email Admissions ([email protected]) with any queries about entry requirements. We welcome applicants who are currently studying or who have gained a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design and this qualification meets our level three entry requirements. This is a recommended qualification for many of our courses but it is not a compulsory qualification. Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 qualifications are considered on an individual basis and we are happy to accept applicants with a combination of Level 3 qualifications. Please check your qualifications using UCAS Tariff calculator and remember we are looking for the equivalent of 3 A levels if you are combining Level 3 qualifications. AUB tailors its offers to the qualifications an applicant is studying and looks for applicant to be studying a relevant creative subject. AUB makes offers based on up to three A Levels or equivalent Level 3 qualifications with the most UCAS Tariff points attached to them to give applicants the best chance possible at achieving our required tariff (120 UCAS Tariff points in most cases).

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://aub.ac.uk/apply/undergraduate/entry-requirements/

Additional entry requirements

Portfolio

Once your application has been reviewed admissions will request a link to a digital portfolio for review by the course team.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6Academic IELTS or UKVI IELTS with 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each component (reading, writing, speaking and listening)
TOEFL (iBT)80With 80 overall and a minimum score of 18 in writing, listening, and reading and 19 in speaking. Please note the home version of this test is not accepted.
Cambridge English AdvancedCMinimum grade C
PTE Academic64With 64 overall and a minimum of 59 in each component
Cambridge English ProficiencyCCambridge C2 Proficiency English exam with a minimum grade of C.
Trinity ISEPassLevel III or level IV with a pass.

English language requirements

https://aub.ac.uk/international/english-language/english-language-requirements

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250* Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250* Year 1
Scotland £9250* Year 1
Wales £9250* Year 1
Channel Islands £9250* Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250* Year 1
EU £19950 Year 1
International £19950 Year 1

*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Please note that subject to the relevant legislation being passed in parliament, the UK Government have proposed tuition fees for the 2026/27 academic year of £9535 per annum for home students. The international tuition fees quoted are subject to change but will be confirmed by no later than September 2025. Please see our website for more information https://aub.ac.uk/fees/undergraduate. All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study. If you're unsure about this optional placement, you don't need to decide now. Once you're here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that's right for you.
Animation Production at Arts University Bournemouth - UCAS