University of Bolton

The VFX and Animation degree at the University of Bolton offers a unique and supportive close-knit community of digital VFX artists. Our mission is to help our students become practitioners who are good at understanding both the creative and technical processes involved in the VFX industry. We take great pleasure in our students graduating and joining VFX studios around the world including several Oscar winners such as DNEG, Weta Digital, ILM, Framestore, MPC and The Mill.

In recent years students have become more and more enthusiastic about our Houdini driven FX content, as it's impact on the VFX pipeline has escalated. With Houdini's huge capacity for creativity, each year students can grow with it, stretching both their creative vision and technical expertise.

On our VFX degree, all our staff come from VFX studios and continue to be active in the VFX industry, working on projects from feature films, Netflix series, all the way to digital tool developments for practical asset creation. This keeps the degree current with industry practice and informs our teaching and indicative content. In turn, this provides students with relevant and up to date material that has a positive impact on their work and showreels, helping produce technically minded creative problem solvers who go on to thrive in the VFX industry.