New Zealand Diploma in Animation UP Education - Yoobee College of Creative Innovation - Auckland City Road Campus, New Zealand

This course delves into creative and conceptual design, providing you with extensive end-to-end experience in the production pipeline process for 2D puppet-based character creation and story design. You'll also build a compelling showreel to boost your chances of securing freelance work or studio opportunities.

Get specialised skills in 2D Animation.
 

You’ll explore creative designs, story-telling methods, conceptual design and animation sequences for complex creative 2D projects, with opportunities to practice your 2D animation skills through project-work to help you create high quality work for your showreel.

You learn to evaluate and analyse your own work, so you know how to push your 2D animations further and further. We also teach you how to pitch your story and character ideas as you would in industry.

Graduates of this diploma know how to work productively, gain some wicked leadership skills, and have the confidence and competence to work independently as a freelancer, or collaboratively in a studio environment.

What you'll learn
 

Digital Production

Gain advanced working knowledge and application of asset creation for 2D environments and character art, problem-solving methods, and evaluation of own work.

Pre-production

Become adept at visual story-telling by learning techniques to create effective storyboards, animatics, story art, and preliminary designs, research, creative exploration, creating mock-ups, preparing work for on-screen presentation, and pitching own work.

Team Production

Create an animation sequence as a team, learn project direction, specialist role assumption, and evaluation of own work.

Develop your Showreel

Research, plan, develop and output your showreel based on the projects you work on throughout the year. Develop a fresh animation project to showcase your skills and add to your portfolio.

Business

We’ll develop skills around contracts, business planning, financial obligations, marketing and legislative responsibilities.