Animation and Games

Discover our Animation and Games courses

Find your visual voice

Are you ready to push the boundaries to thrive in the world of animation and illustration? Perhaps you are an aspiring visual storyteller who wishes to hone your craft and excel in your career? At Ravensbourne, you can do all this and more as you level up your skills and learn with industry on our animation and illustration courses.

Our courses

Student satisfaction you can trust

Animation remains one of Ravensbourne's highest-performing subject areas, achieving 90.7% overall student satisfaction in the latest National Student Survey, with outstanding scores for teaching and mental wellbeing support.

Ravensbourne achieved 92.5% positive responses for freedom of expression, supporting a culture of creativity, collaboration and industry-led learning.

*Source: National Student Survey 2026. In line with THE methodology, and as the NSS no longer includes a single overall-view question, the above figures represent the average positivity score.

Industry connections

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Proud member of Ukie

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Proud members of BCS

Develop industry-relevant skills and professional awareness through a strong connection with the UK's Chartered Institute for IT.

Working on contemporary, challenging and future-facing projects, our students develop creative techniques through a range of digital mediums, gaining hands-on experience, utilising industry-level equipment and software.

Student work

Student-created animation scene showing a figure bending in a dramatic, low-light interior setting
Three low-poly animated characters, including a pig and two abstract creatures, standing together in a stylised outdoor scene

Vytautas Puišys
Animation now
BA (Hons) 3D Animation

Stylised illustration with orange and blue colouring of character wearing a straw hat

Afolabi Fagunwa
BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication

Stylised animation work of a wolf in a woodland staring at an acorn

Amy Hensley
BA (Hons) Animation

Cartoon styled colourful woodland scene with trees, flowers with faces and animals against a white background

Annis-Caine Woodland
BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication

Digital illustration of a mans face, with long dark hair, a beard and blood dripping over the creases in his face

Adam Headley
BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication

Character sketch of a round stocky man with a grey hair and moustache in colour and pencil

Joe Healey
BA (Hons) Animation

Develop cutting-edge creative techniques and have unparalleled opportunities to work on live briefs with big brands and industry experts. 

Allow our experts to sharpen your natural talent and turn your passion into a profession. 

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Stories from our community

I've watched all of these wonderful animations from the very talented Ravensbourne students for A British History In Weather and they are lovely - moving, subtle and beautifully done. What a wonderful partnership.”

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Clare McGinn , Head of BBC Radio and Music Production

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