Animation and Graphic Design
UCAS Code: WWP2
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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About this course
**Overview**
Studying Animation and Graphic Design in combination provides you with an exciting opportunity to develop as an animator and creative designer.
Many aspects of these disciplines are complementary, and studying them as Joint Honours is full of possibility. It could lead to an innovative, interdisciplinary final year project that draws all your interests together.
Your creative development will take place alongside development of craft and digital skills that are applicable to a wide range of graduate career and employment possibilities.
If moving images and visual communication excite your curiosity, these two subject areas in combination could be the right choice for you. This course is a good match for people who prefer learning through doing and if design and media-related employment is your long-term goal.
**Key features**
- A broad approach to animation
- Live projects integrated into year-long modules of study
- On-campus access to industry-standard software and motion capture facilities
- A programme of guest lectures
- Exposure to commercial and professional situations to develop your strengths, ideas and creativity
- Portfolio presentation opportunities to creative directors of professional and commercial companies
- Tailor your course to your individual needs with a joint honours degree
**Learn more about the course at our Open Days**
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What do graduate employment figures really tell you?A few years ago graduates from this subject were having a very hard time but things have improved a lot thanks to our active media, film and photographic industries - much the most common employers for this group. The most common jobs are in the arts — as photographers, audio-visual technicians, operators and designers, as directors, as artists and as graphic designers. Training in presenting sound and graphics is useful in other industries as well, so you can find graduates in journalism, in advertising, in business management, in events management and in web design and IT. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common in the arts, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers' — having several part-time jobs or commissions at once.
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What do graduate employment figures really tell you?Want to work in a growing, creative sector where we are a world leader? Welcome to design! The UK has a proud reputation as a centre of design excellence, and last year just over 14,000 design degrees were awarded. At the moment, the jobs market looks a little better for fashion and textile designers, and not as good for multimedia or interactive designers — but that may change by the time you graduate. In general, design graduates are more likely than most to start their career in London, although that also varies by subject — last year fashion designers often found jobs in the North West, graphic designers in the South West, illustrators in the South West, East Anglia and Midlands, textile designers in the Midlands and the North West, and visual designers in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Design is also a good degree for people who want to work for a small business - more than half of graduates start at a small employer.
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