Animation (Taught)

If you have a passion for visual storytelling and a desire to build a competitive industry portfolio, the MA Animation offers you the space and support to innovate your practice, refine your artistic perspective and hone your professional and academic proficiency.

MA Animation has a focus on storytelling through a wide range of mediums, such as 2D hand-drawn and cut-out, 3D, stop motion and mixed media. As a School of Digital Arts (SODA) student, you will have access to state-of-the-art facilities, and academic and technical staff who are active practitioners and researchers.

You will explore a diverse range of animation methods, approaches and styles through practical projects that can be tailored to your artistic style, narrative voice and career ambitions. The course is practice-focussed, encouraging artistic exploration and professional skills development and embraces discussion and discourse, challenging you to look at how animation can respond to existing debates, emerging technologies and trends, and important world issues.

Features and Benefits

• You will join a course that fosters interesting and diverse engagement with external partners within Manchester, the region, nationally and internationally. This could include the opportunity to work on live briefs with external partners and communities.

• You will become an integral part of SODA - home to a creative community of research active staff with expertise in diverse fields of practice such as animation, filmmaking, photography, games art and sound design.

• You will have access to state-of-the-art studio spaces, specialist workshops and resources for a broad range of animated mediums, including 2D, 3D, stop motion, motion capture and mixed media.

• The Guardian University Guide 2025 ranked Manchester Met in the UK's top six for Animation, highlighting our reputation for excellence.

• MA Animation at Manchester Met has received the status of Toon Boom Centre of Excellence, meaning we provide industry recognised software training to students and staff with input from professionals in the field.