Experience the full animation process of character performance stories with a focus on creating finished animation productions.

Program Highlights

• Taught by industry professionals.
• Bring stories and characters to life through cinematic animation.

What you'll learn

• Industry standard hardware and software.
• Transferable skills to entertainment, gaming, virtual reality (VR), commercial and industrial productions.
• Develop real-world industry production work practices.
• Business of art for profit.

Pre-production skills:

• Writing skills to develop character and story structure.
• Figure drawing to develop strong drawing skills.
• Traditional drawing skills used for visual design of environments, characters, storyboards/animatic.

Production skills:

• Laptop computer skills for digital construction, rigging and animating characters.
• Construction of props and environments with texture and lighting to complete the scene.
• Camera, rendering and editing techniques to create a finished production.

Your future career options

• Director
• Scriptwriter
• Concept artist
• Character designer
• Prop designer
• Environment designer
• Storyboard artist
• Character modeler
• Character rigger
• Environment modeler
• Texture artist
• Animator
• Effects artist
• Compositing

Where you could work includes:

• Television animation production
• Feature film animation production
• Gaming industry
• Internet/Webisode
• Advertising /promotional
• Educational /instructional
• VR (Virtual reality)
• Architectural (Arc ViZ),
• Augmented reality

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes, often referred to as ‘Program Standards', set out the essential learning that a student must achieve before being deemed ready to graduate.

In many cases these program learning outcomes were developed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) in consultation with employers and educators who are experts in the program field. To ensure the outcomes remain current and in line with industry needs, we invite our employers, graduates working in the field and current students to re-examine and update them during regular, ongoing program review focus groups.

How you'll gain skills

• Produce a portfolio exhibit in front of an audience.
• Participate in real-world projects with partners both inside and outside the college, such as Alectra Utilities, and Mohawk College City School.
• Using state-of-the art software and hardware learn the entire animation process from start to finish, including scriptwriting, preproduction (design, storyboarding, drawing skills, and cinematics) creating and rigging characters and 3D animation.