Game Animation, BA (Hons)

Specialize as a games animator in one of the industry's most sought-after roles. This course equips passionate individuals with essential skills, from mastering core animation principles and rigging characters for real-time implementation in major game engines to collaborating in studio-style teams on the full game animation pipeline. Graduates emerge with a robust portfolio, ready for a career in games. Falmouth, ranked number one in England for game design (Princeton Review, 2023), offers state-of-the-art facilities and instruction from professionals who have contributed to titles like Hitman and World of Warcraft. Students retain intellectual property of their creations, and alumni have secured roles at studios such as Respawn and Ubisoft.The curriculum builds core animation skills through progressive modules across three years. Year one focuses on foundations, asset creation, and teamwork; year two emphasizes advanced projects and player experience; year three culminates in a publishable game with professional feedback and portfolio development. Assessment is entirely coursework-based, featuring teamwork, game production, and visual/verbal assignments, with no examinations to mirror industry practices.

You'll build up your core skills as an animator, learning game development processes and the roles of different specialisms within the games industry. You'll then work on team-led projects and collaborate with artists and programmers to create rich characters that are responsive to player controls. You'll rig and animate digital models to bring your ideas to life. Year one: You'll learn what it takes to make an animated game, including asset creation, project management and development pipelines, pitching ideas and considering theories about what games are and how they engage players. Developing your skills in animation, you'll enhance cross-disciplinary groups as you pitch a game and build it as part of a collaborative team. Modules: Development Foundations Digital Creativity Game Animation 1 Reading Games Multidisciplinary Teamwork Game Animation 2 Year two: With greater confidence in your skills, you'll mirror professional game development as you tackle a larger game project in a multi-skilled group. Over the course of the year, you'll research and experiment with various approaches and create innovative features. You'll investigate strategies to enhance the player experience and learn what drives industry trends and developments from visiting professionals. Throughout the year you’ll continue developing your specialist game animation practice. Modules Game Form and Player Experience World Building: Pre-production Game Animation 3 World Building: Production Portfolio Development Year three: During the final year of your Game Animation course, you'll produce a complete and potentially publishable game as part of a team. By pitching it to industry professionals, you'll receive reliable and insightful feedback. You'll also research a topic relevant to your project and build an online portfolio with a clear centrepiece, sharpening your real-world insights and building valuable career contacts. Modules Experience Design Future Skills Professional Portfolio Future of Games Major Collaboration As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. Any students affected will be informed of any changes made directly.