CUA60620 Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media (Animation and Visual Effects)
Last step! Experience and polish for the Animation and Visual Effects industry
This high-level course focusses on gaining the experience and portfolio to get employed in the Animation and Visual Effects industry.
Overview
Campus Joondalup (Kendrew Crescent)
When Semester 1, 2025
How On campus
The Animation and Visual Effects industry awaits
This twelve-month course is the last stage on your pathway towards a career in Animation and Visual Effects. This course is designed for students who have completed the CUA51020-AC87 – Diploma of Screen and Media (Animation and Visual Effects) or university media graduates.
A large proportion of this course has you working in a studio environment on real professional productions for industry including TV series and feature films. You’ll also highly refine your skills in 3D animation, 2D animation, sound, and writing.
You will learn new skills in pre-visualization and virtual production, and undertake the process of developing an idea and pitching it.
Graduates take with them a high-level showreel comprising of AAA level work, feature film credits, experience working with real production clients, and the skills and confidence to work in the Animation and Visual Effects industry.
This course will only be offered in semester 1 each year.
- 3D animation, lighting and rendering
- 2D animation
- Visual Effects and Post production
- Virtual production
- Sound
- Writing
- Studio work
- Concept design and pitching
I have the following attributes:
- Creative and imaginative
- Passionate
- Good analytical and spatial skills
- Technically minded
Important information
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Semester 1, 2025
Details
Course fees
(Tuition fee* $4,898.34 + Resource fee $210.00 )
*Fee disclaimers
The fees quoted are estimates only and are for the entire course for students enrolling on a full-time basis. Please view the full list of Fee disclaimers.
Please note fees listed include all units required to gain this qualification. If you're a continuing student and have successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in, to complete this course.
Enquiries regarding fees can be made by calling us.
Units
Core
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| CUAIND611 | Work professionally in the creative arts industry |
| CUAPPR515 | Establish and maintain safe creative practice |
| CUAPPR613 | Engage in the business of creative practice |
| CUAPPR615 | Evolve ideas for professional creative work |
Elective
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| BSBCRT512 | Originate and develop concepts |
| CUAACD611 | Extend professional expertise with drawing and other visual representation tools |
| CUADES611 | Manage design realisation |
| CUADRT611 | Establish creative vision for screen productions |
| CUADRT614 | Devise camera coverage |
| CUALGT514 | Develop lighting designs |
| CUAPPR611 | Originate a body of independent creative work |
| CUAPPR612 | Collaborate in professional creative projects |
| CUAPPR616 | Extend expertise in a specialised art form to professional level |
| CUASOU513 | Develop sound designs |
| CUAWRT512 | Develop storylines and treatments |
| ICTGAM543 | Produce digital animation sequences |
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