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.
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.