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The UK's animation and visual effects (VFX) industry leads the world in producing blockbuster visuals for entertainment media, reinventing their technical and creative capabilities. With indie talent also thriving in the South Coast, there’s no better place to start your visual effects career than at Portsmouth.
Our Computer Animation and Visual Effects degree course will help you build skills in key areas such as concept drawing, 3D animation, physics-based simulation, and compositing, with guidance from a team of industry experts from across the entertainment and advertising sectors. Using our spectacular facilities, software and equipment, you'll enhance your artistic and technical expertise and improve your research skills in the technology you'll work with, which is vital to your development as an all-round artist.
You can also specialise and develop your professional portfolio through placement opportunities, client projects and the modules you’ll choose from second year.
Transform yourself into an exceptional VFX artist, producer, animator, and stagecrafter at Portsmouth – ready to take the creative and communication industries by storm.
A levels – ABB–BBC
UCAS points – 112–128 points to include a minimum of 2 A levels, or equivalent
T levels – Merit
BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM
International Baccalaureate – 25
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Computer Animation and VFX Research
Introduction to Compositing
Introduction to Real-Time 3D
Modelling for Animation and VFX
Skills And Principles For Animation
Visual Communication
CGI Lighting And Look Development
Project Initiation and Career Management
Real-Time Animation and VFX Project
Creative Technologies Study Exchange
CCI Self-Employed Placement Full Year
CCI Work Placement Full Year
Commercial Asset Production for Real Time
Design and Visual Research for Cinema and Game
Designing for Animation
Engaged Citizenship through Interdisciplinary Practice
Modern Foreign Language (Institute-Wide Language Programme)
Professional Experience
Sculpting and Rigging for Film
Student Enterprise
Visual Effects
Creative Group Project
Creative Professional Development
Final Year Project
Advanced Creature FX and Rigging
Advanced Visual Effects
Animation and Setup for Computer Animation
Create Worlds
Intermediate Visual Effects
Motion Capture Applications
Real-Time Interactive Group Project - Stage One
Real-Time Interactive Group Project - Stage Two
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The IELTS score for international applicants is 6 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).
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