Facilities
Rostrum booths
The Animation course has excellent equipment, a range of workshops and studios, stop-motion camera rooms, editing and sound studios:
- A dedicated animation studio hub containing Mac and PC workstations, Cintique tablets, wacom tablets, light boxes, line testers and high-speed batch scanners. All computers in the studio offer the standard professional range of software including the full Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Dragonframe and TVPaint.
- Dedicated stop-motion animation studios offering five professional standard pre-rigged stages including dedicated computers, Dragonframe, Canon DSLRs cameras.
- Animation rostrum room with various digital rostrums running Dragonframe animation capture software.
- Further Computer Animation Suites house industry-standard equipment of high spec 3D PC workstations with Maya and the full Adobe Creative Suite.
- Acting classes are a popular and invaluable tool to help students develop the core animation skills to bring their characters to life.
- The University Equipment Hire Deptartment contains a wide range of equipment available for Animation production including professional sound recording equipment, camera kits, tripods, digital recorders and Wacom tablets.
- The campus features various sound recording and editing suites and professional sound studios with voice-over and Foley recording booths.
3D stop motion studios
Sound recording suites
Acting workshops
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Since 2019 the course has been generously supported by Soundsnap, the world's leading online sound effects library through giving students annual free access to their professionally recorded sound effects.