Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) provides an immersive and experiential education, focusing on the origination and development of animated projects for a wide range of screen contexts and audiences. There is a strong emphasis on developing the student's individual creative voice and experimentation while underlining the need to reach effectively and freshly to an audience.

The unique studio-based study environment enables individualistic learning as well as engagement and collaboration with students in other screen-based specialisations within Film and Television, as well as from disciplines across the wider Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

In the first year of the course, students undertake foundation exercises in animation research, techniques, experimentation, writing and storyboarding, sound, and project planning.

In year two, creative and technical skills are applied to character creation, world building, sound production and application of animation to expanded screen contexts.

In the final year students undertake studies in projects for collaborative and community practice, projection arts and animation production enterprise. In each year students create an animated short film that they write, direct, edit and animate, thereby developing a body of work that demonstrates a continued practice across all stages of animation production, culminating in a capstone experience in third year.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable students to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, exposing them to multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities to investigate and develop new interests.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) graduates will complete a deeply personal, artistically transformational, and highly professional course of development. With their creative, collaborative and technical skills they are optimally placed to make significant impact in the national and international creative industries.

Graduates may be eligible to apply progress to an additional year to qualify for a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Degree with Honours), or the Master of Film and Television by coursework .

On completion of this course, graduates should be able to:

• apply technical skills and knowledge to the creation of animation productions for a wide range of screen contexts and audiences;
• apply writing and designing skills and knowledge to create imaginative characters and world environments for animation;
• research and critique animated works and methods in historical and cultural contexts;
• implement effective management of animated projects in accordance with professional requirements;
• implement creative and technical experiments to test and develop animation concepts and methods;
• work collaboratively in animation and interdisciplinary projects as productive creative leaders and team members;
• create a body of work that provides a pathway into professional creative practice in animation production and for further studies in animation and broader screen arts.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) will have developed the following skills and attributes that allow them to be: