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Game Animation with Professional Placement

1 Study option · UndergraduatePenryn Campus

Course summary

Specialise as an animator working on games.

Specialise as a games animator, one of the games industry’s most sought-after roles. If you have the passion, we’ll teach you what you need to know – from mastering core animation principles in a game development context to rigging and animating characters in real time to implement into major game engines.

On this Game Animation course, you'll work in studio-style collaborative teams mirroring industry practice as you work through full implementation of the game animation pipeline. You’ll graduate with a rich portfolio of work, ready to launch your games career.

Why study this course at Falmouth?
We’re ranked as the number one university for game design in England (Princeton Review, 2023) and have some of largest and best-equipped dedicated student game-making facilities in the country 
You’ll learn from professional game animators, developers and artists who have worked on titles like Hitman, League of Legends, World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XII
You’ll collaborate in multi-skilled teams to create real games from the outset, keeping the Intellectual Property (IP) of any games you produce
Our graduates have worked in animator roles for Respawn on Apex Legends and at Creative Assembly, Frontier, nDreams and Ubisoft

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Application codes

Course code:
PY28
Institution code:
F33

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Data from:
This course and 14 other computer games and animation courses
Date range:
2022-2024

Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

62% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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76 Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)

86 Go onto work and study

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