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Bachelor of Animation

This course is available

On-Campus, Online

Level of Study

Bachelor's Degree

Duration

3 years

Next start date

Expected Feb 2024

Campus

Yoobee Colleges

Summary

The Yoobee College Bachelor of Animation is New Zealand’s only degree-level course specialising in 2D and 3D character animation, producing world-class animators who are at the very top of their field.

This unique and diverse degree will equip you with everything you need to launch your career as a specialist in story and character, world-building and visual effects, or interactive media and games.

Take your degree to the next level by developing your passion project concepts during a self-directed Honours year.

An Honours year gives you the opportunity to develop a unique industry-ready project, backed by your own research and development, that will help you position yourself for future industry development and delivery opportunities. Or, to produce a substantial piece of research at a high academic standard, to help lead you on to a Masters, or PHD study in the future.

Programme Highlights:

  • New Zealand’s only degree-level course specialising in 2D and 3D character animation, producing world-class animators who are at the very top of their field.
  • Launch your career as a specialist in story and character, world-building and visual effects, or interactive media and games.
  • This vocational degree programme will equip you with technical aptitude, expertise and the creative smarts you need to produce work that is engaging, captivating and inspiring.

Online delivery

Online delivery to offshore international students

Entry criteria

Must be at least 18 years old.

NCEA University Entrance (UE), or equivalent CIE/IB grades, or equivalent qualification from an overseas secondary school or tertiary institution AND a portfolio. Or, successful completion of Yoobee’s Diploma in Animation Level 5.

Students who speak English as a second language must have, within the preceding two years, achieved or surpassed at least one of the following English proficiency outcomes:

  • IELTS Test: Score of 6, with no band score lower than 5.5
  • TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT): Score of 550 (with an essay score of 5 TWE)
  • TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT): Score of 79, or higher (with a writing score of 18)
  • University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations: FCE or CAE with a score of 52, or higher
  • NZCEL: Level 4, with the Academic endorsement

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