BA (Hons) Animation and Visual Effects Bachelor's degree at the University of Lincoln

This module introduces the core principles that underpin all animated movement. Students explore how timing, spacing, weight, and performance bring drawings and digital characters to life. Through a series of short, practical exercises, they develop the technical and creative skills essential for believable motion and expressive storytelling. Working with industry-standard animation software, students build confidence in planning, testing, and refining animated sequences. The module emphasises o

This module explores the core ideas that shape computer-generated imagery in animation and visual effects. Students learn to interpret and construct digital form, light, and material using industry-standard software while gaining awareness of how CGI practices evolve through new technologies such as real-time rendering and procedural CG content generation. By combining creative experimentation with critical insight, students build the digital fluency and visual understanding needed to progress i

Cultivating Creativity is a first-year interdisciplinary module designed to develop students' creative thinking and industry awareness. The module fosters curiosity, ideation, and practical application while equipping students with essential academic, creative and professional skills. Through engagement with contemporary issues, students will explore how these topics intersect with their chosen industry contexts.

This module explores the core principles of design for animation. Students develop character, prop, and environment designs while learning how visual language, composition, and colour communicate personality, mood, and story. Through hands-on workshops, tutorials, and peer feedback, students build creative confidence, technical awareness, and professional design skills that form a foundation for animation and visual effects study.

This module introduces key elements of the animation pipeline, focusing on story, character development, and film language. Students learn foundational skills in ideation, communication, visual storytelling, and cinematic design. Through hands-on workshops, they develop narrative concepts into beat boards, storyboards, and animatics, gaining confidence in layout, composition, and animated storytelling techniques.

This module introduces students to the historical development, formats, and cultural practices of criticism across film, television, and screen media. It explores the distinctions and overlaps between criticism, reviewing, and analysis, developing students' understanding of how each operates within different professional and cultural contexts. Through collaborative discussion and close engagement with a range of media texts, students will strengthen their ability to articulate informed interpret

Your learning on this module encourages you to be adaptive and inquisitive in the face of change, equipping you with the critical awareness and agility needed to navigate a rapidly shifting media landscape. Alongside theoretical inquiry, you will engage in practical experimentation with selected emerging technologies or tools, analysing their creative potential through testing and evaluation. You will communicate your findings through research-led creative outputs, such as a video essay or anoth

Expanded Film invites students into the world of experimental and artist-led moving-image practice. Through screenings, lectures and hands-on workshops, the module explores how filmmakers and visual artists challenge conventional storytelling to create bold, alternative screen works. Students experiment with a range of techniques and forms, such as expanded cinema, installation, video essay and title-sequence design. While developing their own short experimental artefact, they learn to connect c

This module introduces students to experimental approaches within animation, encouraging exploration beyond conventional workflows through the use of 2D rigs, hybrid techniques, and emerging digital tools. Students engage in short practical projects that integrate traditional animation principles with innovative processes, developing confidence in creative risk-taking and technical experimentation. By testing the boundaries of animation practice, students broaden their understanding of how alter

Sound for Visual Media equips and empowers you to apply fundamental sound production skills in a variety of visual media contexts. Through a range of industry-aligned methods and practices, you will create complex soundtracks in response to specific visual media, drawing on key principles and theories of sound.

Animation Practice allows students to specialise in an area of animation or explore a hybrid creative pathway that supports their individual aspirations. Working within Story & Visual Development, 2D Animation, 3D Animation, or Visual Effects (VFX), students develop technical skills, creative confidence, and professional workflows. The module encourages experimentation, visual research, and problem-solving while offering opportunities for collaboration, competitions, and external engagement. Thi

This module develops the applied production skills required for creating 3D assets in animation and visual effects. Students work on environment and character projects, exploring how design, form, and surface communicate narrative and function in digital space. They gain experience with industry-standard tools for modelling, sculpting, surfacing, and rendering, and learn how to optimise and present work for production pipelines. The module emphasises creative problem-solving, procedural thinking

Creative Collaboration is a Level 5 shared core module that develops students' ability to work effectively with others in the conception, development, and presentation of creative media projects. Through a series of intensive design sprints, students will collaborate in small groups to respond to a set of themed creative challenges aligned with real-world contexts such as social impact, sustainability, and emerging cultural practices. The module emphasises collaboration as a creative and profess

This module aims to give you an opportunity to immerse yourself in a specialist area within the creative arts. The content of the module is shaped by the research and practice expertise of staff members who actively collaborate with and mentor you throughout your exploration of this specialist area. This ensures that you benefit from the latest insights and methodologies within the chosen specialist area, gaining a well-rounded understanding that integrates theoretical knowledge with practical a

This module explores the creative and technical processes of post-production for animation and visual effects. Students learn to integrate multiple visual layers, rendered passes, and live-action plates to produce seamless, cinematic imagery. Workshops cover keying, rotoscoping, tracking, and grading using professional software and emerging novel tools that enhance efficiency without replacing creative control. By the end of the module, students will produce a short composited sequence demonstra

This module introduces students to the principles and practices of commercial motion design, where animation, graphic design and video combine to create moving visuals for professional and promotional purposes. Motion design is widely used in advertising, branding, broadcast, digital and social media, as well as in corporate communication and experiential contexts.