Postgraduate degrees in Animation

Every year Animation students welcome all creatures great and small to the UCA for a life drawing session.

This year, we welcomed the animals back to see their pawtraits for themselves...

Ross Stringer, who graduated from the BA (Hons) Animation course in 2020, won British Short Animation for Crab Day.

Ross met his partner, Ciara Kerr, whilst studying at UCA.

Ciara’s short animation, Homemaker, has received international acclaim, winning Best Animation at the This is England Film Festival in Rouen and Best Film and Outstanding Award at the International Student Film and Video Festival in Beijing.

For her final project, Izzy chose to create a hand-drawn 2D animation film, called Changing Room, based on her own experiences with body image.

The film shows a character who Izzy describes as having “hip dips, leg hair, saggy boobs and fat,” who goes swimming.

One of life’s great questions – where DO all the socks go? is answered in wondrous ways by BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts graduate Kimberley Davis, who is one of hundreds of graduates exhibiting their work at this year’s Graduation Shows.

Her charming short film entitled “Where do all the socks go?”, sees hidden creatures steal odd socks for comfort while occupants sleep.

David Hulin graduated in 1998 with a degree in Animation, which at the time was the only degree of its kind offered in Europe.

Since then, he’s gone on to become a powerhouse in CGI animation and VFX for hundreds of commercials for the US market and has worked on a number of films and television shows too, including Harry Potter and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

David is now founder and Managing Director of Free Range VFX in New York, which has clients including LEGO and Kellogg’s, but is also working separately on its own original animated content.