Animation and Special Effects Sheffield Hallam University

This course aims to provide you with a range of creative, conceptual and technical skills and equip you with the knowledge and ability to work professionally in animation and special effects. You take a lead in exploiting existing and emerging media technologies and we encourage you to develop innovative creative approaches. We also emphasise problem solving and interdisciplinary team working. The practical and conceptual skills in animation production you develop are gained by using real world scenarios. This course involves you experiencing a broad range of techniques. It allows you to specialise and develop your skills and knowledge in your chosen area. We support standard and super 16mm origination on film as well as digital formats. We also have state of- the-art animation digital compositing software and facilities. This enables you to make and complete animations and effects to a high professional standard, which you can showcase to employers. You gain the skills and knowledge to be a multitalented animation and special effects artist, able to find work in areas such as the feature film effects industry, production television commercials, computer games, music promotions or television programming.

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