Bachelor of Animation - 241212

Bachelor of Animation

241212

Creative and Performing Arts

Full time Part time

Course Fee

CSP/$11000 (1st year contribution)

Start Date

Mar 2025

Griffith University - Brisbane City (South Bank)

Duration

3 years Full time or 6 years Part time

Offer Rounds

23 Dec 2024

Overview Admissions Criteria Student Profile Career Possibilities

Course outline

This degree is the ideal launching pad for you to play a significant role in the animation and visual effects industries in Australia and abroad. Using top-of-the-line hardware and premium industry-recognised software, you’ll produce original animated projects from concept to delivery. Griffith University is an officially recognised Toon Boom Centre of Excellence, which verifies the Griffith Film School Bachelor of Animation meets a high standard of depth, breadth and quality. Learn skills in concept development, storyboarding, 2D, 3D and stop motion character animation, editing, sound recording, visual effects, virtual production, post-production and motion capture. Choose one of three majors: animating, art direction and technical direction, each based on a foundation of drawing, screen analysis, scriptwriting and animation principles. Develop your specialisation in second and third years via your major. Select electives to enhance your majors and develop secondary skillsets. Client work and internships that are part of this degree will help you sketch out your future career. For more course information, visit Bachelor of Animation at GU.

Note

Griffith University will commence making offers on 15 November 2024, and additional offers may be considered in subsequent rounds should places still be available.

Majors

Animating; art direction; technical direction.

Fee notes

This an indicative only amount for first year fees. For further information refer to http://www.griffith.edu.au/students/enrolment-timetables-fees/paying-your-fees.

Other requirements

Important offer advice: Should you receive an offer into this program you will be required to enrol into classes* within a short timeframe. This information will be included in your Starting@Griffith email and expressed in the number of days from the day of issue of your email and is in line with the offer response date in your QTAC offer email. Please note that the number of days can vary depending on when the offer was made. This requirement applies irrespective of whether you accepted conditionally or unconditionally. If you do not enrol* into at least one class for your program by 5pm on the response day your offer will lapse. Lapsed offers are not automatically reinstated and reinstatement is subject to available places. *Enrolling into classes means that you are advising when you are attending class/es. Enrolment must be submitted.

Admissions Criteria

For minimum age requirements please visit Institution minimum age requirements

Prerequisites

Applicants must meet the minimum age requirements for admission, see the QTAC website for details.

Fixed closing date

On-time applications closed on 4 September 2024. Late applicants may be considered should places remain and interviews can be accommodated. Limited offers via ATAR/Rank may be made in the December round, should places remain.

Additional entry requirements

Admission to the Bachelor of Animation is via portfolio and interview. Limited offers may be made in later rounds via ATAR/rank should places remain.

Admission via portfolio requires applicants to submit a portfolio and attend an interview. Portfolios are submitted directly to Griffith University via an online submission portal. A shortlist of candidates will be invited to interview following portfolio assessment. Interviews will take place at Griffith Film School, Brisbane City (South Bank) from 23 – 27 September 2024. Visit griffith.edu.au/film-portfolios for details of portfolio and interview requirements including how to pay for and submit your portfolio. Applicants should also refer to the Portfolios website for the most up to date advice and messaging. Griffith University will commence making offers on 15 November 2024, and additional offers may be considered in subsequent rounds should places still be available. Portfolio applicants must submit their portfolio and pay the $55 non-refundable portfolio submission fee to Griffith University. Guaranteed Admission Schemes do not apply to this program.

Assumed knowledge

Any General or Applied English subject (Units 3&4, C).

Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank) for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

ATAR/Selection Rank profile for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR/Selection Rank for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

Notes

* “<5" – indicates less than 5 ATAR/Selection Rank based offers were made

Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.

Student Profile by Applicant background for semester/trimester/term 1, 2024

For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.

Number of students

N/P#

Percentage of all students

N/P#

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

15.5%

Recent secondary education admitted solely on the basis of ATAR/Rank Admitted where both ATAR/Rank and additional criteria were considered Admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR/Rank was not a factor

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Number of students

Percentage of all students

69.8%

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

All students

Number of students

116

Percentage of all students

100%

Notes

* “<5" – the number of students is less than 5
# N/P – Not published: the number is hidden to prevent calculation of numbers in cells with less than 5 students

Career opportunities

Depending on your areas of specialisation, you may find roles in 2D, 3D/CGI and stop-motion character animation; visual effects for film, television, computer games and interactive media; scriptwriting; storyboarding and pre-visualisation; illustration; graphic art; compositing; and matte painting.

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