Stop-Motion Animation And Puppet-Making BA (Hons)

The emphasis throughout the Stop-Motion Animation & Puppet Making BA (Hons) award is on your ability to explore believable movement and performance in animation.
Integral to this is design research, theoretical understanding and studio projects all of which are designed to establish a cohesive strategy of contextual and experiential learning in a creative environment.
An equitable set of assessment procedures will be employed to gauge your learning and progression throughout each semester. You will be introduced to a focused range of teaching methods in animation principles, performance and production techniques methods that you will employ across the programme to produce animation in a range of approaches.
This will be achieved through an understanding of how acting principles are applied to animation, in the observation of movement and the exploration of a characters' motivations in overcoming conflicts of self, other and place in a theatrical, narrative performance.
Building confidence in professional animation production.
Through each level you will engage in increasingly complex challenges encouraging your ability to articulate ideas in a professional manner.
Students then develop an independent learning strategy by reviewing and evaluating what they have produced, incorporating responses from your peers and tutors, and synthesising that feedback before progressing to the next stage.
The Core modules and some of the Studio-based modules will be based on a brief set by the award or module leader or an external agency or company. Commonly there will be a starting point a brief, a project introduction, or specified area of investigation set against the intended outcomes detailed in the module descriptor and activities that promote relevant learning and facilitate assessment of those outcomes with a common end point, usually in the form of an individual or group presentation of work for assessment. In this kind of learning model the focus is on the creative and research process which students follow to satisfy the requirements of the module.