Animation Facilities

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The resources and equipment in Animation fully support the aspiration for high end productions to be created. Students are encouraged to work to industry standard and aspire to award winning animations.

Introducing the Wolverhampton Screen School

Wolverhampton Screen School has state-of-the-art teaching facilities and equipment with the aim of boosting skills in the digital arts and media industries.

Students benefit from production space, an equipment media store, a video studio with movable partitions and a large multipurpose studio. There are also Mac labs, edit suites, staff offices and a production base room.

The industry standard facilities include a green-screen, three-camera TV studio with an adjoining production gallery. There is also a radio studio which reflects the layout of BBC local stations. News readers have access to a second bulletin studio and the technical kit and software that enable the replication of the workflows of national news journalists and the running orders of professional news programmes.

Wolverhampton Screen School

3D Tour

Click on the image above and take a tour around our Animation Facilities, please note the Mattertag hotspots (white circles) – these contain information about specific equipment.

Wolverhampton's First Ever Live Esports Event

The event saw the Le Mans Virtual Series kick off with the iconic circuit – Monza. Wolves GR Esports went toe-to-toe with racing giants including Red Bull Racing, BMW, Ferrari and Porsche in the four-hour endurance race.

The event was hosted at, and livestreamed from, the University of Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre, with hundreds of sim-racing enthusiasts tuning in to see the action as well as a number of them making the trip to the theatre itself to experience it in person.

Live Esports event

Facilities include

A dedicated studio developed to replicate a professional configuration that is equipped with 25 workstations
2 screen setups for both production and post production runs to occur
Production cycle software applications – CGI software Maya 3D, and 3D Studio Max as well as Toon Boom Studio, Flash, After Effects and the full Adobe CS suite
A 2D capture area where line testing through to full productions can be achieved Dedicated blue and green screens and portable motion capture rig
A stop motion space that can be used to facilitate puppet and model animation production
Fully equipped drawing and life studios