this is Animation & Game Design

Start your career in the creative industry

At Bradford you'll learn how to generate and develop ideas and adopt a creative approach to your work. Our friendly and approachable industry-experienced team of academics and visiting world renowned experts will help you develop the skills you need to become a confident, well-rounded professional and you'll have access to the latest industry focused technology to develop your professional portfolio.

All our programmes offer a placement year in industry, where you will learn priceless personal and professional skills that will enable you to build life-long contacts and secure the experience that is so respected when looking for your first job. Alternatively, you can choose a life changing cultural adventure and study a year abroad at one of our partner institutions around the world.

You will develop crucial critical thinking skills that will enable you to produce work of the highest industry standard and foster the technical knowhow to be a leading professional in the field – something that the fast-growing creative industry so desperately needs.

We look forward to welcoming and helping you achieve your potential…

Courses in this subject

We have 5 courses in this area.

Animation BSc (Hons)

Study level:: Undergraduate
UCAS code:: W615
Duration:: 3 years
Attendance mode:: Full-time

Animation (with placement year) BSc (Hons)

Study level:: Undergraduate
UCAS code:: W616
Duration:: 4 years
Attendance mode:: Full-time

Foundation Year

Study level:: Undergraduate
UCAS code:: Y006
Duration:: 1 years
Attendance mode:: Full-time

Game Design and Development BSc (Hons)

Study level:: Undergraduate
UCAS code:: I621
Duration:: 3 years
Attendance mode:: Full-time

Game Design and Development (with placement year) BSc (Hons)

Study level:: Undergraduate
UCAS code:: I622
Duration:: 4 years
Attendance mode:: Full-time

Our facilities

Access state-of-the-art motion capture equipment - using Vicon motion capture cameras, you can record the movement information of human actors which can be fed into specialist software, manipulated, and transferred to models.

Meet our students and alumni

This is where ideas come to life

"I chose the University of Bradford because their course has a very all-rounded approach. We have the 3D modelling and we have level design, game development, and 2D art. It doesn't box you into one speciality."

Ceres, BA (Hons) Graphics for Games

This is where I became a storyteller

"I'm so happy I came to Bradford, I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything... It's provided me with the opportunity to go to Japan. It's provided me with the opportunity to do game design and have fun, and tell my stories with my friends."

Xander, BA (Hons) Graphics for Games.

A day in the life

Lukasz gives us an insight into a typical day as a Games Design and Development student. He visits the motion-capture studios and labs weekly and works on a major project doing 3D animation.

Lukasz, BSc (Hons) Games Design and Development

this is animation and game design

With access to state-of-the-art equipment, our Animation and Games Design students are constantly developing new work to add to their professional portfolios.

where animation and game design can take you

Our graduates are highly sought-after by companies at the forefront of the creative industries. Some of the roles our recent graduates have secured include: