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BA (Hons) Animation Production
- Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time
- Placement year: Optional 1 year
- Course code: W615 (UCAS)
- Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
Meet our Industry Patron – Paul Hilton
Meet the Industry Patron for BA (Hons) Animation Production – Paul Hilton.
Paul is lead environment artist at Treehouse Digital, currently working on a feature film project utilising Unreal Engine.
Prior to his role at Treehouse, Paul was a full-time lecturer on the BA (Hons) and MA Animation Production courses at AUB for 20 years, teaching both traditional and digital animation.
Career destinations
Many BA (Hons) Animation Production graduates have gone to work in studios across the world, with students often being ‘snapped up’ ahead of graduation. Our students work in 2D traditional animation, 3D computer animation, stop motion puppet animation, games art direction and many other areas of animation and film.
Graduates from this course have gone on to work in studios including:
- Pixar (USA)
- Aardman Animation (UK)
- Netflix (USA)
- Framestore CFC (UK)
- Locksmith Animation (UK)
- Studio Ghibli (Japan)
- Industrial Light and Magic (UK/USA)
- Lupus (UK)
- Brown Bag (Ireland)
- Cartoon Saloon (Ireland)
Alumni
Discover what some of our alumni have gone on to do since graduating from BA (Hons) Animation Production
Andy Stevens – BA (Hons) Animation Production and MA Animation Production
Andy Stevens graduated from the BA Animation Production course at AUB in...
Natalie Young – BA (Hons) Animation Production
I've always had a passion for drawing since I was young. I was always getting told off for doodling all over my...
Jamie Badminton – BA (Hons) Animation Production
Jamie Badminton graduated from the BA (Hons) Animation production course in 2002...
Andrew Grisdale – BA (Hons) Animation Production
I must say I have many wonderful memories of my time studying at AUB. I found it really fun and interesting...
Awards
Our BA (Hons) Animation Production students and graduates have gone on to win great things.
2025
- Winner | Palm Springs International Animation Festival, Outstanding First-Time Animator – Cameron Campbell, Black, White and Invisible Red (2024)
- Winner | RTS Southern Television Awards, Best Student Animation – Why Won't Anyone Eat Me? (2024)
- Winner | RTS Southern Centre Student Awards, Best Student Animation – Why Won't Anyone Eat Me? (2024)
- Winner | Children's Film Festival Seattle, Best Animated Short Film – Is Anybody Out There? (2024)
- Winner | Children's Film Festival Seattle, Best International Film – Meet Me in the Woods (2024)
- Winner | Children's Film Festival Seattle, Best Stop Motion Film – Playing Possum (2024)
- Shortlisted | RTS Southern Centre Student Awards, Best Student Animation – Is Anybody Out There? (2024)
- Shortlisted | RTS Southern Centre Student Awards, Best Student Animation – This is the Life (2024)
- Finalist | World University Animation Awards (Hong Kong) – The Elevator
2024
- Winner | Cinemagic "On the Pulse" Short Film Festival, 8+ Jury Prize – Les Château des Chats (2023)
- Winner | British Animation Awards, Best Undergraduate Film – Cortex (2022)
- Shortlisted | British Animation Awards, Best Undergraduate Film – Moonseeker (2023)
- Shortlisted | RTS Southern Centre Student Awards, Animation category – Knife Point (2023)
2023
- Winner | Purbeck Film Festival, Purbeck Shorts Competition – The Man Who Loved Flowers (2023)
- Winner | RTS Southern Awards, Best Student Animation – Dadaland (2023)
- Shortlisted | Purbeck Film Festival, Purbeck Shorts Competition – Les Château des Chats (2023), Nobody to Play With (2023), Train Ride (2023)
- Nominated | RTS Southern Awards, Best Student Animation – Moonseeker (2023), Undertaker (2023)
2022
- Shortlisted | Geelong Pride Festival Australia, Design Award and Student Filmmaker Award – Hiding (2021)
2021 World Film Carnival, Singapore
- Winner | Audience Choice Award – Checkpoint (2021)
- Winner | Outstanding Achievement Award – Heartwood (2021)
- Winner | Critics' Choice Award – Dreaming (2021), Noise Film, Toil and Trouble
- Winner | Audience Choice Award – Suburb
2021
- Winner | Florence Film Awards, Best Animated Film – Heartwood (2021)
- Winner | Lift-Off sessions, September – Checkpoint (2021)
- Winner | Monthly Indie Shorts, September, Best Student Animation – Hubris (2020)
- Winner | Screaming Room Film Festival, Jack-o'-Lantern Award – Spellbound (2020)
- Winner | RTS Student Television Awards, Category Winner – Spellbound (2020)
- Winner | Vesuvius International Film Fest, Category Winner – Spellbound (2020)
- Winner | Brazil International Film Festival, Best Student Film – Spellbound (2020)
- Winner | Monthly Indie Shorts, July, Best Student Animation – Spellbound (2020)
- Distinction | Athens Animfest, Student Competition – Arachnarche (2020)
- Honourable Mention | Florence Film Awards – Checkpoint (2021)
- Honourable Mention | Brazil International Film Festival – Out of my Depth (2020)
- Special Mention | LIMFF July Edition – Spellbound (2020)
- Special Mention | Monthly Indie Shorts, October – Checkpoint (2021)