Bachelor of Animation

Program Overview

This comprehensive animation and visual effects degree equips students with essential skills in concept development, animation, editing, and visual effects. Through hands-on projects and industry collaborations, students gain practical experience and prepare for careers in film, television, gaming, and interactive media. The program features renowned guest lecturers and international partnerships, providing students with a global perspective and industry connections.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This degree is the ideal launching pad for you to play a significant role in the animation and visual effects industries in Australia and abroad. The theoretical and practical skills that are essential to these career paths are comprehensively covered through majors in Animating, Art Direction and CGI Technical Direction. Using top-of-the-line hardware and premium industry-recognised software, you'll produce original animated projects from concept to delivery. You'll learn skills in concept development, storyboarding, 2D, 3D and stop-motion character animation, editing, sound recording, visual effects, virtual production, post-production and motion capture. You will also develop the ability to apply appropriate animation formats to specific projects-traditional drawn animation, 2D, 3D and motion-captured digital animation, 3D puppet or clay animation and other experimental media. Your academic studies will be extended by studio course work and engagement with industry production, providing you with first-hand experience.

Outline:

Year 1

• Drawing for Moving Image • Principles of Animation • Digital Storytelling • Reading the Moving Image • CGI Animation • Animating: Mechanics and Motion • Concept Design Fundamentals • Scriptwriting 1

Year 2

• Animation Forms • Interactive Storytelling • Major courses • Free-choice electives

Year 3

• Intro to Professional Practice • Industry Research • Major courses • Free-choice electives

Teaching:

As an animation student, you can take advantage of our diverse workshop, seminar, and master class programs delivered by local and international experts including: • Multi-Oscar award-winning producer, Lord David Puttnam CBE • the esteemed Gobelins School in Paris • motion capture Director Mr Benjamin Brenneur of WETA NZ, and performer, character creator, trainer, coordinator and director, Marco Sinigaglia • and Myrna Gawryn, character performance specialist, Lucasfilm and Disney. Griffith Film School is an active member of, and has a strong reputation within the World Film School Association (CILECT), a group of 160 International Film Schools. We were a leader in the establishment, management and growth of ASPERA and maintain ongoing engagement with ATOM. Griffith Film School has ongoing international partnerships with the APSA, NEP Group, World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, Gobelins L'école De L'image and the BFA.

Careers:

You may find work in 2D and 3D character animation and visual effects for film, television, computer games and interactive media companies. Prepare for a career that includes many exciting and creative pathways, such as designing characters and environments for 2D and CGI/3D-animated projects, scriptwriting, storyboarding and pre-visualisation, animation in 2D and 3D, illustration, graphic art, compositing, matte painting, and visual effects.

Tuition Fees and Payment Information:

• $34,500 per year
• 2024 indicative annual fee
• An International student pays tuition fees.
• Students are liable for tuition fees for the courses they are enrolled in as at the census date.
• The tuition fee for students who commence their program prior to 2014 is charged according to the approved program fee for the trimester in which the student commenced the program.
• The tuition fee for students who commence their program from 2014 onwards is charged according to the approved program fee for the trimester in which the student is enrolled.
• Year of study Fee category / Band Fee per CP Tuition fee Year of study 2024 Fee category / Band FEE BAND 34.5 Fee per CP $431.25 Tuition fee $34,500 (80 CP)