Bucks Animation Students Invited To Free Harry Potter Studio Tour on May 13th

Harry Potter Leavesden Entrance. Photo by Karen Roe

We're excited to announce that Bucks animation & VFX students will be taking the Harry Potter Studio Tour at Leavesden on May 13th! Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden is a 80-hectare studio complex in Hertfordshire and a major film and media complex, used for filming the Harry Potter series of films. Obviously, this trip is purely about helping our students to learn about animation and visual effects, and has nothing to do with wanting to have fun at a movie theme park. We'll be working really hard, I promise.

"The Great Hall, Hogwarts". Photo by Marek Kosniowski  

Best of all, we've secured funding from the Bucks Big Deal to pay for the tickets, which means the trip is completely free for all our students. And we'll even book a mini bus to take everyone along, so all you have to do is show up at Uni as per usual. Details of the trip will follow soon, but for now - make sure to clear your diaries for May 13th. This will be a department-wide trip, so it will also be a great opportunity to get to know some of your fellow students in different years.

Funding provided by the Bucks Big Deal

Any animation and VFX students who would like to go on this trip (which will involve lots and lots of very hard work) should sign up by emailing stephen.partridge@bucks.ac.uk

See you on May 13th!

---Alex

For more on the experience of studying at Bucks New University, come and visit us at one of our Open Days, take a virtual tour of one of our animation studios, check out what our students think of our course, and see why we're ranked in the top 12 creative universities in the UK. Find out why we're giving free laptops to all our students, and why we give all our students free access to videos at Lynda.com. Also, see what financial assistance might be available to you. Learn which is better for animation, a PC or a Mac? Get hold of a copy of a map so you can find your way around campus, and learn aboutmotion capture at Bucks.