Animation Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Find your voice and join a community of creatives on this industry-led, hands-on Animation course.

* Study what you love. On this wide-ranging course, you'll have the chance to experience different specialisms and find your own creative voice.

* Make connections. Bath is in the heart of the South West creative corridor and you'll benefit from strong industry contacts to become part of a thriving creative ecosystem.

* Learn by doing. Through live briefs and field-lab style learning, you'll build a professional portfolio and showreel ready to support your first steps into industry.

Animation at Bath Spa is a practice-led, industry-informed course. You’ll learn from award-making filmmakers on a professionally creative campus. We’re in the heart of the South West creative corridor, which means you’ll have access to a wide range of industry contacts and you’ll benefit from networking connections and the possibility of exciting collaborations.

You’ll build core skills in 2D and 3D character animation alongside a range of optional modules that will ready you for success in areas such as high‑end television, factual and natural‑history content, and public‑sector communication. You’ll learn from industry experts and have access to world-class research and superb facilities.

As an Animation student at Bath Spa, you won’t just be joining a course – you’ll be joining a creative community. You’ll be surrounded by other creative practitioners, including film makers and script writers on our beautiful campus.

The Animation degree will utilise our Paintworks venue in Bristol as a professional production office space to ease the transition from an educational setting to working in the creative industries, located as it is in a wider vibrant and interactive community that includes myriad creative minded people, companies, exhibitions and event spaces.

You’ll learn by doing on this practical course through a range of industry-integrated projects, including live briefs, critiques and field-lab style experiences. You’ll also find your creative voice as a part of a community committed to making progressive and exciting work that aims to make the world a better place.

By the end of the course, you’ll have developed project work and films that build into a professional showreel tailored to your own career aspirations, ready to launch your career.