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For those who have a passion for visual arts, drawing and storytelling, the Bachelor of Animation Production combined with a Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation at UTS is a direct route to gaining the knowledge and skills required for creating animated stories that communicate clear and powerful ideas.
Choose this programme to gain a competitive edge in the animation industry through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Benefit from our strong industry ties, engaging with live projects and industry partners, all whilst immersing yourself in a studio-led, team-based learning environment that mirrors professional animation settings. Learn to develop, pitch, and defend your ideas, creating original content for various screen-based media.
What sets this course apart is its transdisciplinary approach, integrating diverse perspectives and real-world projects to prepare you for complex industry challenges. From an Animation perspective it is its emphasis on observation and life drawing as sources of inspiration, fostering creativity in character and story development as you set out to master 2D, 3D, and hybrid techniques. Its distinctiveness lies in the integration of professional animation skills with language skills and cultural insights, alongside the chance to study abroad.
By the end of this course, you'll leave with a distinctive design language and an intimate understanding of your creative practice, ready to innovate and collaborate in the global animation scene. You will know how to reach an audience as a filmmaker and create impact through animation performance, design and character-driven storytelling.
Graduates from the Bachelor of Animation Production are image-makers, critical thinkers and storytellers in equal measure and we help equip them to become leaders in this industry. Students will learn to develop, pitch and defend ideas, and ultimately create original content for film, TV, advertising and other screen-based media that will engage global audiences.
One of the benefits of studying our Bachelor of Animation Production is the link to UTS’s existing industry connections that help give students that competitive advantage. Students have the opportunity to work with live projects and active partners, such as ABC Podcasts, VIVID, the Australia Piano Quartet, and other collaborations with international universities at the Annecy MIFA campus etc. UTS also has long-standing relationships with Sydney's local animation studios such as Flying Bark Productions, Mighty Nice, Cheeky Little Media, Dave Enterprises, and Animal Logic which offer students multiple opportunities to engage in practice while studying.
UTS understands that teamwork is at the heart of the animation industry which is why a studio-led approach is used to create a high-intensity practical environment where students learn how to work with their peers in a professional and collaborative atmosphere, melding creativity, technology and research.
By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world, including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own, across and between other disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate across a rapidly accelerating world of change.
Course aims
This course gives students skills and vision that will extend beyond the university and cultivates a collaborative, global vision of storytelling and image-making founded in the cinema arts.
As part of the community of continual development and industry innovation, the course aims to create new approaches to 2D and 3D animation, studio practice and VFX design, enabling graduates to lead and contribute across a broad range of creative partnerships and collaborations.
Students develop an understanding of their individual design language and practice in relation to historical, theoretical and contemporary contexts.