Bachelor
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.
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 your 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 creative interdisciplinary collaborations with students across Performing Arts, Music, Visual Art, Design and Production.
In the first year of the course, you will 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, you will undertake studies in projects for collaborative and community practice, projection arts and animation production enterprise. In each year you will create an animated short film that you will write, direct, edit and animate, thereby developing a body of work that demonstrates a continued practice across all stages of animation production.
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:
Domestic students
There are three components to the application process. Applicants must complete components 1 and 2 by the application closing date.