Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - Visual Effects
- 3 years
- Duration
- 17,500 GBP/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Farnham / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
You'll begin your path to becoming a highly proficient technical artist and pioneer for VFX for movies and animations with our BA (Hons) Visual Effects degree at UCA Farnham.
In this course, you'll learn a variety of computer graphics processes and techniques that are employed in the pipelines used to create professional computer animation and visual effects. In addition to helping you build a critical and creative language, we'll show you how to use industry-relevant software tools that power the creation of games, movies, and television shows.
You can enroll in an Integrated International Foundation Year, which was created especially to give international students English language and creative skills before they start their first year of study.
As a part of this degree, you have the option of finishing a Professional Practice Year. You will have the chance to reach your full professional, academic, and personal potential as a result, giving you the tools you need to operate confidently and enthusiastically in creative environments. These abilities are highly recognized by employers, and a sizable percentage of placement students receive graduate-level employment offers or continue on to postgraduate study.
Program structure
Year 1
- Exploring Creativity
- Production Tools 1: Introduction
- Introduction to Visual Effects
- Pre-visualisation
- Animation Techniques 1
- Textual Practices
- Asset Integration 1
- Post-visualisation
- Storytelling and Narrative Development 2 (elective)
- Animation Techniques 2 (elective)
Year 2
- Making and Exploring
- Critical Analysis with English for Academic Purposes 1 (Year 2 direct entry only)
- Worlds and Landscapes 1
- Creatures and Character Development
- Exploring Visual Culture
- Critical Analysis with English for Academic Purposes 2 (Year 2 direct entry only)
- Asset Integration
- Modelling and Textures
- Lighting and Rendering (elective)
- Technical Effects (elective)
- Real-Time Graphics Systems (elective)
- Motion Capture and Visual Effects (elective)
- Image Processing for Visual Effects (elective)
- Scripting for DCC (elective)
You'll also complete a professional placement if you are not undertaking the Professional Practice Year pathway.
Students undertaking the Professional Practice Year will also complete the following:
- Creative Innovation
- Industry Lecture Series
Year 3
- Creating Community 1
- Global Creative Industries
- Professional Practice
- Creating Community 2
- Pre-production for Visual Effects
- Degree Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 17,500 GBP for international students
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Bachelor's courses, we usually require that you have:
- High school leaving certificate or equivalent.
- A transcript showing successful completion of one year of a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university with CGPA 3.8.
English Language requirements for BA/BSc courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.0
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 80
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 169
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Merit, Reading Merit, Speaking Merit, Writing Merit, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 33, Reading 33, Speaking 33, Writing 33, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
For these course, you must perform an individual piece as an audition. This piece can be up to two minutes long and can be one of the following: a brief modern text (play or screenplay); a short piece of Shakespeare; or an original work you have composed.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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