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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)

Australia

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What will I learn?

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.

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

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

CRICOS

093582C

Study options

Full Time (3 years)

Tuition fees
A$55,548.00 (US$ 36,657) per year
Indicative total course fee - AUD $175,156

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

6 January 2025

Venue

Southbank Campus

234 St. Kilda Road,

SOUTHBANK,

Victoria,

3006, MELBOURNE, Australia

Entry requirements

For international students

Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years); Completed some or all of a higher education qualification; Completed some or all of a VET qualification; Applicants with work and/or life experience

English language requirements

TOEFL Internet-based test: total score of at least 79 and scores of 21 for writing, 18 for speaking, 13 for reading and 13 for listening; IELTS: total score of at least 6.5 in the Academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS), with no bands less than 6.0; Pearson Test of English Academic : overall score of at least 58 and no PTE communicative skills score below 50; Cambridge English, Advanced/Certificate in Advanced English (CAE): Cambridge English Score of at least 176 with no skill below 169; C2 Proficiency (previously called Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) examination): Cambridge English Score of at least 180 with no skill below 180.

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

Pathways options

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