Animation with Foundation Year

The world of arts and media is changing at a phenomenal rate, and there has never been a better time to explore your creativity and the ways in which you can apply it to the world around you.

This Foundation Year provides the perfect opportunity for you to explore the key principles of art, design and media. The course is designed to help you develop your creative skills, it gives you a chance to build a larger portfolio, and provides a good transition period to familiarise yourself with the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology and life as a student at Salford. You will then be in a strong position to progress onto your chosen degree pathway.

This is a shared Foundation Year across Art, Design and Media disciplines, and will give you a collaborative environment to explore ideas, take creative risks and become confident independent learners. You will be joining a thriving and creative community.

The Foundation Year of this four-year programme aims to provide you with an understanding of the subject to allow you to progress on to the BA (Hons) Animation course. Once you have progressed onto the Animation degree, you will produce a strong body of work that will enable you to develop your career in the animation industry. You will learn how to tell visual stories through performance and character developing industry leading skills in a specialised field.

You will:

• Prepare to progress on to your chosen Art, Design and Media degree

• Familiarise yourself with student life

• Develop your creative skills and academic confidence

This course is not open to international students.

Course Modules

Foundation Year

• Digital Media Applications

• Creative Methods

• Introduction to the Creative Industries

• Creative Practice Major Project

You can choose between the following modules:

• Introduction to Creative Coding

• Creative Risk Taking

Year 1

• Animation 101

• Introduction to Creative Play

• Animation Context

• Animation 102

• Storytelling: Script to Screen

• Art of Animation

Year 2

• Performance and Character

• Games and Virtual Worlds

• Specialist Animation Studies

• Engagement Challenge

• Motion Design for Visual Communication

Year 3

• Negotiated Project - Phase One

• Research Project

• Negotiated Project - Phase Two

• ‘Making Of’ - Negotiated Project

• Showreel and Professional Engagement

There will be different types of assessments but the majority will be project based assessment work.