BA (Hons) Animation Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University

This module gives you the core skills needed to bring characters to life on screen. You'll focus on classical animation techniques and learn how to develop strong timing that works for an audience. By using drawn animation, you'll get to explore pacing, posing, and character intent more deeply, with the goal of creating convincing movement that shows weight, momentum, and personality.

Throughout this module, you'll have the chance to explore different animation software and expand your knowledge of the animation pipeline by helping you develop an understanding of industry expectations, how to work efficiently, and develop a range of transferable skills that will support your future studies.

This module is designed to help you develop the skills needed to bring characters to life in a way that feels natural and engaging for an audience. You'll explore techniques such as using dope sheets to plan timing. You'll also look at body language and the basics of performance, and you'll see how valuable video reference can be in shaping convincing animation.

This modules aims to develop your ability to create compelling animated performances that combine dialogue, sound, and visual storytelling. You will learn how to synchronise mouth shapes to audio through lip-sync techniques, and how recorded dialogue, Foley, and sound effects influence timing, pacing, and character intent.

Concept to Creation introduces you to the core principles of concept design specifically for 2D animation. You will explore how to interpret ideas and transform them into compelling visual concepts that support animated storytelling. By the end, you will have a solid foundation in designing purposeful, visually engaging concepts that can be confidently taken from initial idea to final animated production

Through a series of masterclasses, you will gain insight into working as a freelance animator, submitting work to festivals, and pursuing studio-based roles. Sessions will guide you in developing your own branding, building an online presence, preparing quotes and budgets, and understanding the range of career pathways available. By the end of this module, you will be equipped to market your skills confidently and make informed decisions about your next steps in the professional world.

This module aims to strengthen your practical animation abilities by challenging you to produce a short with a fast turnaround. You will focus on applying your technical and creative skills to bring a brief to life, working through the animation pipeline from planning and layout to clean-up, colour, and final compositing. The module emphasises animation performance, visual clarity, timing, staging, and workflow efficiency.

In this module, you'll learn how to develop, shape, and present an animation idea in a professional pitch format. You'll research visual style, character design, narrative direction, and production planning to build a fully considered concept. You will examine how industry pitches are structured and analyse successful examples to understand how ideas are communicated clearly and convincingly.

This module guides you through the stages of producing a short animated film using industry-style development and refinement processes. You will begin by finalising your animatic, ensuring strong clarity of story, pacing, and shot flow. As you move into production, you will explore layout, animation blocking, performance refinement, clean-up, colour, compositing, and sound design. Weekly rushes sessions will allow you to present your work-in-progress and receive feedback from staff and peers, en

In this module, you will focus on the complete pre-production workflow needed to prepare an animated short for production. You will investigate the purpose and structure of production bibles used in the animation industry and apply these standards to your own project. Alongside developing all the visual and written materials for your own production bible, you will also create a fully timed, edited animatic that communicates the pacing, staging, camera choices, and overall narrative flow of your

This module aims to prepare you to pitch a fully researched and professionally justified concept for your Final Major Project. You will develop a comprehensive pitch document that communicates the purpose, value, and creative direction of your proposed three-minute animated short. A major emphasis of this module is explaining why your film should exist, identifying your target audience, and demonstrating how the project supports your intended place in the animation industry.

This module aims to support you in completing a fully realised three-minute animated film that demonstrates your accumulated skills, artistic identity, and professional readiness. Because every student's film is unique, the module encourages you to take ownership of your creative direction, solve production challenges, and apply efficient time-management strategies to ensure your project reaches completion. By the end, you will have produced a final animated film that demonstrates professional-l