C10460v1 Bachelor of Animation Production
Award(s): Bachelor of Animation Production (BAnimProd)UAC code: 600035 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 107050A
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 144
Course EFTSL: 3
Location: City campus
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
External articulation
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Course program
Honours
Other information
Overview
For those who have a passion for visual arts, drawing and storytelling, the Bachelor of Animation Production at UTS gives students the knowledge and hands-on experience required to create animation work that communicates clear and powerful ideas, helping them stand out in a global industry.
The Bachelor of Animation Production students learn how to observe the world around them, drawing directly from life to gain inspiration for characters and stories. They discover how to think creatively and develop ideas through multiple stages, focusing upon character development, narrative structure and engaging performance. They also learn fundamental 2D, 3D and hybrid animation skills to bring their stories to life.
Graduates from the Bachelor of Animation Production are image-makers, critical thinkers and storytellers in equal measure and we help equip them to become leaders in this industry. Students learn to develop, pitch and defend ideas, and ultimately create original content for film, TV, advertising and other screen-based media that will engage global audiences.
One of the benefits of studying our Bachelor of Animation Production is the link to UTS’s existing industry connections that help give students that competitive advantage. Students have the opportunity to work with live projects and active partners, such as ABC Podcasts, VIVID, the Australia Piano Quartet, and other collaborations with international universities at the Annecy MIFA campus etc. UTS also has long-standing relationships with Sydney's local animation studios such as Flying Bark Productions, Mighty Nice, Cheeky Little Media, Dave Enterprises, and Animal Logic which offer students multiple opportunities to engage in practice while studying.
UTS understands that teamwork is at the heart of the animation industry which is why a studio-led approach is used to create a high-intensity practical environment where students learn how to work with their peers in a professional and collaborative atmosphere, melding creativity, technology and research.
Course aims
This course gives students skills and vision that will extend beyond the university and cultivates a collaborative, global vision of storytelling and image-making founded in the cinema arts.
As part of the community of continual development and industry innovation, the course aims to create new approaches to 2D and 3D animation, studio practice and VFX design, enabling graduates to lead and contribute across a broad range of creative partnerships and collaborations.
Students develop an understanding of their individual design language and practice in relation to historical, theoretical and contemporary contexts.
Career options
The industry-focused Bachelor of Animation Production opens up animation careers in film, television and emergent screen-based content creation industries. Career options include director, animator, scriptwriter, concept artist, production designer, character designer, set designer, storyboard artist, layout artist, digital cinematographer, technical director, producer, modeller, rigger, VFX artist, editor, colourist and compositor.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
This course engages with the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs), which are tailored to the Graduate Attributes set for all graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:
| 1.1 | Apply fundamental and higher-level animation and cinematic principles with understanding and professional proficiency. |
| 1.2 | Demonstrate a high level of craft and production value across multiple methods, aesthetics and techniques of the animation process |
| 1.3 | Apply theoretically informed processes to production practice including managing complexity and collaboration, incorporating research into development, active iteration and critique, clarity in communication, delegation, and resource management. |
| 2.1 | Deploy literacy skills to undertake primary and secondary research, exploring a wide range of visual and textual materials, and connect research process to final outcomes |
| 2.2 | Demonstrate reflexive critical thinking as creative practitioners who are intellectually curious, imaginative, and innovative, with an ability to evaluate their own and others' work with candour. |
| 2.3 | Contextualise work within current and historical animation practice and theory. |
| 2.4 | Integrate risk taking and experimentation through development of unique aesthetics, techniques and movement languages in animation. |
| 3.1 | Employ professional skills responsibly and respectfully demonstrating sensitivity as a global citizen and being open to cultural exchange, inclusion and dialogue. |
| 4.1 | Apply a critical and responsible understanding of Indigenous peoples, cultures and protocols to creative practice |
| 5.1 | Act with transparency and exhibit personal and professional ethical integrity and broad social responsibility. |
| 6.1 | Possess well-developed skills and proficiencies to present and communicate narrative, complexity and abstract ideas with precision. |
| 6.2 | Work cooperatively as part of a creative team, challenging and negotiating differences with candour, engaging with the big-picture while mindful of detail, perception and nuance, and take a leadership role when required. |
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential to the successful completion of a course. For more information about inherent requirements and where prospective and current students can get assistance and advice regarding these, see the UTS Inherent requirements page.
Prospective and current students should carefully read the Inherent Requirements Statement below and consider whether they might experience challenges in successfully completing this course.
UTS will make reasonable adjustments to teaching and learning, assessment, professional experiences, course related work experience and other course activities to facilitate maximum participation by students with disabilities, carer responsibilities, and religious or cultural obligations in their courses.
For course specific information see the Bachelor of Music and Sound Design, Bachelor of Communication (Media Arts and Production), Bachelor of Communication (Journalism), Bachelor of Animation Production Inherent (Essential) Requirements Statement.
Local students
Local students apply through the Universities Admissions Centre.
International students
International students apply through UTS International.
External articulation
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has established a credit recognition package with the following institution:
- UTS College: Diploma of Animation Production
Course duration and attendance
The course is offered on a three-year, full-time basis.
Course structure
Students must complete 144 credit points made up of 108 credit points of core Animation production subjects, 12 credit points of Communication core subjects and 24 credit points of electives.
Course completion requirements
| STM91638 Core Subjects (Animation Production) | 108cp | |
| STM91639 Communication Literacies | 12cp | |
| CBK92055 Electives | 24cp | |
| Total | 144cp |
Course diagram
Course program
Subjects have requisites and specific availability, so must be completed in the order listed in the typical course program below. Students’ course progression may be delayed by up to a year if the typical course program is not followed.
Students are required to complete both major subjects 54403 Studio: Foundations in Animation Language and 54406 Context: 2D Animation Introduction in Autumn Year 1.
The typical course program is shown below:
| Autumn commencing, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 54403 Studio: Foundations in Animation Language | 12cp | |
| 54406 Context: 2D Animation Introduction | 6cp | |
| 52680 Digital Media Industries | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 54402 Studio: Foundations in Animation Design | 12cp | |
| 54409 Context: Introduction to Hybrid Animation | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK92055 Electives | 24cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 52698 Communicating Difference | 6cp | |
| 54405 Studio: Narrative Investigations in Animation | 12cp | |
| 54407 Context: Animation Character | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 54404 Studio: Narrative Experimentations in Animation | 12cp | |
| 54408 Context: Animation Character Rigging Advanced | 6cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK92055 Electives | 24cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 54401 Studio: Animation Practice | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK92055 Electives | 24cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| STM91640 2D Context | 12cp | |
| STM91641 3D Context | 12cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 54414 Studio: Animation Industry Project | 12cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| CBK92055 Electives | 24cp | |
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| STM91640 2D Context | 12cp | |
| STM91641 3D Context | 12cp | |
Honours
The Bachelor of Animation Production (Honours) (C09130) is available to eligible students with an additional one year of full-time study.
Other information
Further information is available from:
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