Launch your animation career with a comprehensive foundation course designed to equip you with essential skills in both 2D and 3D animation.
Gain hands-on experience with industry-standard animation software and techniques.
Develop your artistic skills and create believable animation characters and effects.
Benefit from personalised mentorship in small class sizes, ensuring dedicated support throughout your learning journey.
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Foundations
First things first. Learn the principles of animation and how to apply these ideas to different media. You'll be introduced to various software while developing your art skills, observing forms, and build on skills to draw from real-life.
Digital Production
You then delve into the more complex stuff, turning your ideas into realistic assets by working with 3D modelling software to develop your skills in 3D modelling, and texturing of characters and objects.
Key Animation
Learn to refine and create believable animation characters and effects in this module. You'll build on fundamental 3D character animation processes using animation software, and learn how to plan and execute animation performances.
Final Image
Aesthetic appeal is the focus for this module. You develop your composition skills, and further develop in texturing, lighting and rendering concepts to produce final images and image sequences for animation. You'll learn how to pay close attention to mood, atmosphere and composition of your final image, creating animation to industry standard.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive the New Zealand Diploma in Animation (Level 5).
Software:
Adobe: Photoshop, After Effects, Animate, Premiere, Audition; Audacity, Sculptris
Domestic students
Tuition Fees: $10,648
On-Campus: $350
Online Only: $175
Course Related Costs*: $361
*Course Related Cost - Covers software licensing for student use on campus for the period of 1 year. This amount can be covered by StudyLink's courses related cost loan.
Fees Free Study
To find out if you are eligible for Fees Free study, please find out more here or visit the government Fees Free Website
International students
Tuition Fees: $26,000 (NZD)
Course Related Costs: $2,000 (NZD)
For more information, click here to download the international course costs PDF.
Please note fees are subject to change.
Applicants must have completed NCEA Level 3 with credits in a relevant subject AND submit a portfolio of creative work demonstrating your current skills to be assessed. Applicants will also need to complete an interview with a relevant member of staff.
OR
Applicants must have successfully completed the New Zealand Certificate in Digital Media and Design (Level 4) or equivalent
International applicants must be 18 years or older and have proof that they have gained within the last 2 years and English language skills equivalent to IELT’s level 5.5 with no band score lower than 5.0
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"I'm meeting likeminded people at Yoobee who are just as passionate about creating as I am. The tutors go above and beyond to share valuable industry knowledge."
- Cayleen Bester, Animation Graduate
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Check out the showreel below, featuring outstanding work from our talented and recent graduates of the Diploma in Animation (Level 5) at the City Road Campus.
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