Manchester Animation Festival

About

Our MA and BA courses in Animation at the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology are designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to apply innovative and efficient production processes into your animation projects which could be 2D, 3D, Stop Motion, Virtual Production or hybrid of techniques. You will explore traditional production skills but the course will encourage you to experiment with cutting edge creative industry developments and new ways of storytelling in collaboration with game and digital technologies.

The School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology have a new exciting offer from 2025 – a DipHE in Motion Capture for the Creative Industries,
this two year course will teach you the skills you need to be a technician and operator of this rapidly evolving technology.
This course has been developed with industry partners. Aligned to post-production technician occupational standards, you can be sure that the content you learn is taught by experts and to the needs of industry.

We have a campus at MediaCity, one of the fastest-growing creative technology centres in the UK. The Greater Manchester region is one of the key areas of UK animation industry production, with an ecosystem of large to small companies –from  leading facilities such as Dock10 to smaller boutique studios like Fuzzy Duck and Tracks and Layers