Diploma in Animation: Fees & Entry Requirements at Yoobee Colleges, New Zealand

Diploma in Animation

New Zealand

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What will I learn?

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. 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.

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Animation and VFX

Study options

Full Time (40 Weeks)

Tuition fees
NZ$27,300.00 (13,74,000) per year
Resource Fee: $2,000 (NZD); Enrolment Fee: $500 (NZD)
Start date

February 2027

Venue

Christchurch Campus

573 Colombo Street,

Christchurch,

Canterbury,

8011, Canterbury, New Zealand

Full Time (40 Weeks)

Tuition fees
NZ$27,300.00 (13,74,000) per year
Resource Fee: $2,000 (NZD); Enrolment Fee: $500 (NZD)
Start date

February 2027

Venue

Wellington Campus

2 Bunny Street,

Wellington,

6011, Wellington, New Zealand

Entry requirements

For international students

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.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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