Animation With Foundation Year

The Foundation Year will provide you with a dynamic, exciting and collaborative environment in which you will become a confident self-learner, with the underpinning skills and knowledge to apply in your studies.

You will be taught alongside students from other Art, Design and Media disciplines and study modules that will help you increase your knowledge and understanding of basic art and design as well as other aspects of creative thinking. Our strong connections within Greater Manchesters thriving creative sector mean you will also hear from practitioners working in the industry right now about their practice.

In the first term you will study modules that introduce the key concepts, skills and knowledge of Art & Design. The assignments are flexible enough to allow you to interpret and tailor your submissions to your preferred area of study. Tutors will help and support you, in creating a portfolio of work to progress onto the BA Animation here at the University of Salford. You will be integrated slowly into the BA course with opportunities to meet tutors from the BA course and by using our shared collaborative facilities within our vibrant New Adelphi building.

Modules will help you to develop your study skills such as note-taking and structuring reports. In the second semester, you will further develop your creative practice and be introduced to the creative industries.

This programme prepares you to study on one of our three-year undergraduate programmes, meaning the duration of your degree is 4s in total. The foundation year is not a standalone qualification.

Once you have progressed onto the Animation course, 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.

Designed to boost your creative thinking and technical abilities, this course provides a structured pathway in digital animation practice. From the start, you will be hands on and will learn traditional stop frame animation techniques as you are introduced to the principles of animation and the laws of motion. You'll also learn industry leading 3D animation software.

This course allows you to identify and define your own career prospects with dedicated portfolio modules, which will help you in your preparation for employment.

Animation is one of the fastest growing areas within the UK creative industries providing multiple opportunities for graduates. Based in MediaCity, you'll be right in the heart of this growing creative sector which is focused on developing adaptive, highly skilled, industry ready creatives.

Applicants who have successfully passed a diploma from a community college, intermediate diploma or associate degree with an overall mark of C+ or better will be considered for undergraduate entry.