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What will I learn?

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course offers you the opportunity to choose your own route through the field of animation, studying either MA Animation or the bracketed specialism, Visual Effects.

Animation is a discipline that adapts, challenges and leads the moving image industry. It is in the DNA that we all share since it can be applied equally to live action, games, XR, live performance, online, and any number of time-based media as well as being an important form in itself.

Creating animation is a collaboration, and at the heart of this course we encourage students to develop a strong network within the School of Digital Arts and industry focussed links. Animation is not a mono-discipline but multi-faceted, and our bracketed animation specialism reflects the many ways that animation can be applied and examined. From science communication, to award winning short films, to mind-bending VFX, animation touches and transforms many areas.

You will drive your creative projects in your chosen practice with staff who will guide and challenge you. Our postgraduate community is led by a specialist team of academic staff and visiting speakers who are practising artists, animators and researchers. They bring their passion and knowledge of the varied industries that animation feeds and share advice and expertise about how students will join them.

The postgraduate student experience is designed to provide you with opportunities to hone your specialist technical skills, challenge your thinking, and make professional links with the global creative community and industry.

CAREER PROSPECTS

Courses at the School of Digital Arts have been developed with leading industry partners to ensure that you attain the industry-ready skills and technical abilities you'll need to gain experience, build a network and launch a career in the creative media, arts and digital tech industries.

Which department am I in?

Department of Natural Sciences

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
£20,500.00 (22,33,602) per year
This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Manchester Campus

Oxford Road,

Manchester,

Greater Manchester,

M15 6BH, NORTHERN ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For international students

A minimum of 2:2 Honours undergraduate degree is required, in one of the following subjects: Animation; 3D Animation/Character Animation; Motion Graphics; Illustration; Games Art; Concept Art; Graphic Design; Animation and Visual Effects; Post-production and VFX; Interactive Media; Moving Image; Computer Graphics and Simulation. Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification. TOEFL IBT: Overall score: 89 With no individual test score below: Listening: 17 Reading: 18 Speaking: 20 Writing : 17.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan is ranked 46th for universities in the UK (Times Higher Education Rankings, 2025).

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  • GBP 400 million in ongoing investment
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