Visual Effects and Motion Graphics with Foundation Year BA (Hons)
Teesside University, Middlesbrough
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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16-SEP-24

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4 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Teesside University

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Start date

16-SEP-24

Duration

4 Years

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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Teesside University

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**Course overview**: This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you dont have sufficient grades to join Year 1. If you have a passion for a career as a visual effects or motion graphics artist, this professionally accredited course is for you. Combine your technical and creative skills to create live-action and digital 2D and 3D content into sequences for film and television.As well as professional skills in key areas of the visual effects and motion ...Read more


Course overview

: This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you don't have sufficient grades to join Year 1. If you have a passion for a career as a visual effects or motion graphics artist, this professionally accredited course is for you. Combine your technical and creative skills to create live-action and digital 2D and 3D content into sequences for film and television.As well as professional skills in key areas of the visual effects and motion graphics production pipeline such as previsualisation, motion design, technical animation, effects animation, look development and compositing, you have a fantastic opportunity to explore and develop your own specialism.You gain experience of the wider pre-production and production pipelines and emulate industry practice by working collaboratively with students from other animation courses on industry-led briefs and short films. Benefit from our bespoke studios featuring industry-standard VFX software, dedicated specialist camera equipment, motion-capture studios, and fully equipped sound stage including green screen facilities and motion-control cameras. You graduate fully-equipped to be successful in this growing industry. Visual effects and motion graphics graduates are in high demand, and the Department for Digital Culture, Media & Sport announced the creative industries contributed £111.7bn to the UK economy in 2018. Find out more tees.ac.uk/sourceThis course is industry recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries, and carries the ScreenSkills Select quality-mark which indicates courses best suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries. This course has been officially certified by SideFX and the school is a member of the SideFX Certified Partner Programme in recognition of our knowledgeable instructors, the high quality of student work, and our efforts devoted to connecting students to industry.After the course: You have many opportunities to develop your professional skills, links with industry and meet with recruiters through our Expo Series, Animex Festival and Student Futures activities. Graduates from our Visual Effects degrees have gone on to enjoy successful careers in studios around the world working on visual effects for film, television, animation and games.Graduates have gone on to work in a range of areas including previs, modelling, rigging, production, effects animation, matte painting, tracking and matchmove, lighting, look development and compositing. They are working for companies including Industrial Light and Magic, Weta Digital, Double Negative, Moving Picture Company, Cinesite, The Third Floor, The Mill, Pixar, Digital Domain, Framestore and many more.

CUG Subject Ranking
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41st
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92nd
Computer Science
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 70 = 30% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
30%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
85%
Average salary
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Computer Science graduate salary at this uni
£17,000
UK Computer Science graduate salary
£20,000

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Flexible: each application is considered on a case-by-case basis.

Acceptable qualifications in maths and English include:• GCSE grade 4 or C (or higher)• Level 2 Key Skills (Communication and Application of Number)• Level 2 Functional Skills.

Popular A-level subjects

Computer Science

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Mathematics
26%
Computing
24%
Information & Communication technology
22%
Art & Design
20%
Media Studies
15%
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£9,250 per year

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£17,000 per year

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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Teesside University, Middlesbrough , Tees Valley

Based on its vibrant campus in the heart of Middlesbrough in North East England, Teesside University is a friendly, modern...

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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Borough Road Middlesbrough Stockton-On-Tees TS1 3BX United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Middlesbrough  0.4 miles away

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