Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)

About

Overview

Honours is available for this course

Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts has a longstanding, world-class reputation. Our graduates light up animated screens around the world.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation) involves the practical exploration, innovation and development of animated screen production. It incorporates research, idea development, screenwriting, storyboarding, character design and expression through intensive studio-based learning. It also covers a comprehensive range of animation art, craft and technical production methods, styles and outcomes.

You will have access to professional facilities and resources, including animation and stop-motion studios; rushes viewing rooms; editing, sound recording and mixing suites; 90 and 220-seat cinemas; professional production equipment; and HD digital vision and audio post-production facilities.

Animation methods include paint on glass, charcoal, sand, ink, 2D and 3D digital, stop-motion, pixilation, rotoscoping, visual effects and motion graphics, experimental film techniques, projection art and interdisciplinary collaborations.

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

You will

Develop advanced knowledge and skills in seeing an animation production through all stages of development, production and post production
Develop your individual creative voice and animation style
Collaborate with related disciplines to plan and execute an interdisciplinary project with animation
In every year level, produce an animated short film that is completely your own – written, directed, animated, sound-designed and edited by you.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Admission criteria

This information will help you find the most useful and relevant admission and selection requirements based on your circumstances.

Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years)

Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.
Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.
Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

ATAR-based admission information in Semester 1, 2024

ATAR-based admission for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable).	ATAR
Lowest ATAR where a recent Year 12 student offer was made (excluding students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made (including students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
Minimum ATAR required for consideration (only applicants eligible for special entry schemes were admitted below the minimum)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
Guaranteed ATAR for applicants who completed Year 12 and were eligible for the Access Melbourne categories of rural or isolated and/or disadvantaged financial background^*	N/A for this course
Guaranteed ATAR for Indigenous applicants who completed Year 12	N/A for this course
Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and attended an under-represented school^*	N/A for this course
Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and did not attend an under-represented school^*	N/A for this course

_{*All students who achieve the specified guaranteed ATAR and meet the course prerequisites will be offered a place}

ATAR profile of those offered places in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in Semester 1, 2024 (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable). Does not include consideration of student background and equity.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds	ATAR
Highest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
Median rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
Lowest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)

Completed some or all of a higher education qualification
Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.

Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.

Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

Completed some or all of a VET qualification
Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.

Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.

Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

Applicants with work and/or life experience
Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and complete a selection test via the supplementary application form. Applicants who are shortlisted from their selection test will also be required to attend an interview.

Applicants who satisfy these requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements of the University - completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University's English language requirement.

Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the selection test and interview.

English Program Requirements

IELTS 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0)

Career

Career outcomes

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.

Our graduates establish careers as animation artists for art and entertainment industries, including:

Film
Television
Community arts
Site-specific screening installations
Information and advertising
Games
Motion graphics
New developments in media and exhibition
Storyboard artist
Screenwriter for animation

Software Developer

Fee Information

Application Fee 154