UUSU Animation Society

We at the Animation Society will be hosting a "Drink and Draw" at the Ulster Inivesitys CQ Social Bar, this coming Wednesday Afternoon. We plan for this to be a recurring event for the society hopefully increasing the slots down the line. 🖌️ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Announcement, Join The Animation Society amongst other societies at the Halloween Party this coming Monday, October 30th at Ulster Universities CQ Social Bar 🎃👻

Meet the Committee; Malcolm Nwobu
"Hello, my name's Malcolm I will be the social media manager this year helping to keep you up to date and posted on events we are planning. I am currently in my 2nd year of the course and have generally been enjoying things so far. I like Anime, Manga, Fighting games, Films and more, I am looking forward to the year ahead.
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Meet the Committee; Cor

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Meet the Committee; Alyssa

"Hi my name is Alyssa, I am treasurer of the animation society"

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Hello everyone! Sorry for the delays we the Committee at Ulster Universities Animation Society have finally got everything up and running, and we are exhilarated to welcome students to this brand new year within the society!
Be on the lookout constantly as we have exciting events to be announced within the upcoming weeks, all info regarding the events will be posted here!

Introductory posts for our new team will go live later this afternoon on this page!

We ask a favour of any returning student to rejoin the society, with a one-time fee of £2.

Are you a new student joining us? the fee also applies in that case. You can access the signup page through uusu.org included in our social media bios or ulster universities society information page.

Don't hesitate to send in a message regarding any questions you have about the society, We are glad to help and will get back to you as soon an possible!

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Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄✨🎁

As we move closer to the holidays the animation society would like your help creating two Christmas hampers for us to donate to the Simon project!

Any and all donations would be greatly appreciated! Final date for donations will be Friday 16th December.🎁✨🎄

🎉 The Animation Society is taking over Toody Threedy this Christmas season! Join us on Tuesday 13th @ 7pm in The American Bar for drinks and celebrations!

The society will be bringing along our Christmas hamper and will be accepting final donations before we send it off to those in need.

This is an amazing event to come to, it'll be very chill and casual. Feel free to drink or dont drink, its completely up to you. Students, Staff and Industry Professionals will be at the event so its a great opportunity to make connections, meet others from the university and just surround yourself with like-minded folks. 🥰

We'd just like to remind you all that the Animation Society and UUSU is not responsible for how much alcohol you consume at these types of events. We are all adults and we are responsible for our own actions. 🍻

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Just a reminder that our weekly Thursday study group is running tomorrow night in the Final year room! 5PM to Late! 💖Hope to see you there!💖✏️🎨

Big massive thank you to all who came to our gaming night last week!💖👻🎃 We had so much fun seeing everyone’s fabulous costumes!💖 Congratulations to our costume contest winners and gaming tournament winner!!🎉🎉

🌻 Hey all! This week for freshers were just holding a very chilled out night at . This is just a night to relax, have a few drinks with your friends and meet new people in your course!

We also wanted to remind you all that while some of these events are held in clubs/bars there is absolutely zero pressure to drink alcohol. But if you do decide to drink, please remember that the society and UUSU are not responsible for the amount you drink nor what happens while under the influence.

Like our other nights; we’ll be meeting outside the university building before the event to walk everyone over. Well be leaving the university before 7pm so arrive for 6:45pm 💖

Tonight is our Movie Night 🎬🍿

Voting has already started on our discord server; emails will be sent out to new members today with the link to the society. We’ve been very busy bees today.

Arrive at the second year room BA-03-09 for 6pm. Movie will start 15/30mins after. We recommend you grab some dinner before you arrive, we’ll have popcorn and soft drinks ☺️💖

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Last night we held our first ever event of the semester; Chat and Draw! We were so happy with the turn out and amazed at how engaged everyone was! Thank you so much for coming 💖 Please post any of your drawings you did last night into our Art Share Channel on Discord, we’d love to see what you all drew and share! ☺️

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💜Here at the Animation Society we’d like to wish you all the best with your results today! It’s both an exciting time and a scary one but we’re proud of you no matter what.

If you’re attending Ulster University we’re open for memberships! It’s just £2 for the yearly signup. With a membership you’ll gain access to the society discord where you’ll meet like minded friends, advice and education on animation, attend fun events catered to all and the support from ourselves, the committee.

📜 Sign Ups Here ; https://www.uusu.org/organisation/animationsociety/

We’ll be announcing our Welcome Week events in the coming weeks and we’ll also be attending the Belfast Campus Freshers Fayre in September. 🌸

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📱 Meet the Committee; Courtney Stockman 🌷🌙

“Hey there everyone! My names Courtney and I’ll be helping to run the society this year! During my placement I opened my own art and stationary store called and I’ll be continuing to run it while I’m in final year! I love everything Anime, Pokémon, Nintendo, Astrology and Kawaii Culture! I can’t wait to see you all in September and help to run the events for you!”

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💰 Meet the Committee; Peter Carton 💙

“I’m Peter Carton (he/him) and I love all things Pokémon/drag and visual development! During my placement year I accidentally ended up becoming a wig stylist and I’m now learning how to sew! If I get interested in something I will research everything about to a scary degree. Did you know Barbie hair used to be horse hair? I didn’t.”

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🗒 Meet our Secretary ; Adrian Mallon ❤️‍🔥

“Howdy hey, the name is Adrian! Your local Secretary and dude who is into character work and funky colours.”

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☎️ Meet our Chairperson : Rachel Graham 💘

“Hi!! My name is Rachel Graham, I am a final year student studying animation at Ulster University. My star sign is Cancer and I have a dog called Mr Noodle. (he snorts a lot) I love to draw cutesy character art, and I would love to illustrate a children's book one day! Much like the rest of the committee, I am coming back from placement year so I'm looking forward to being on campus! I'm excited to be leading such a fun society and I can't wait to see everyone at our events!”

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Hello Everyone! We’re back for another academic year with a new Committee! We are so excited to meet you all in September and run some super fun events. 🎨

Keep your eyes peeled for our committee introductory posts coming today and some fun event posts later in the month! 💜

Are you a new student joining us in September? Don’t be shy to drop us a message and ask any questions about the society. We’ll be glad to help you!

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