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2D Animation and Stop Motion

2 Study options · UndergraduateTeesside University Middlesbrough Campus

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2025-20262026-2027
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Course summary

Course overview: Learn how to tell a story and bring your characters to life with our 2D animation and stop motion degree.

You learn essential animation skills including drawing and pre-visualisation, cinematography, hand drawn 2D animation and stop motion techniques. Gain experience of the animation pre-production and production pipelines by working with other animation students on team projects as specialist 2D animators, stop motion animators, stop motion compositors, prop makers, set builders or character designers. Our bespoke 2D animation studios featuring industry-standard software, dedicated workshops and stop motion studios equipped with lighting, cameras, and green screen offer you a real world technical experience.

Top reasons to study this course

  1. Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.
  2. Career-ready: our ExpoSeries of events allow you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are seeking to recruit new and rising talent.

After the course: Graduates can find roles as 2D/stop motion animators, assistant animators and production designers for animation. Our ExpoSeries of events are an opportunity for you to interact with employers. Each event is open to the public and industry guests, allowing you to showcase your work to peers and potential future placements or employers.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Teesside University Middlesbrough Campus

Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 3 Years
  • BA (Hons) • Sandwich • 4 Years

Start dates

  • 15/09/2025

Application codes

Course code:
I156
Institution code:
T20

Teesside University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Application codes

Course code:
I156
Institution code:
T20

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Data from:
This course and 11 other computing courses
Date range:
2022-2024

Grades held by accepted students

For Teesside University, the top and bottom 5% of student grades have been removed from these calculations. This change helps to remove any extraordinary circumstances that could impact the data. Learn more here .
ABB Most common
  1. AAA
  2. Highest grades
  3. DDE
  4. Lowest grades

Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

96% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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Student Outcomes

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77 Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)

90 Go onto work and study

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