Available at the Renfrew campus.
105 credits - 34 courses - 20 months - 7 quarters - Diploma

The Animation Art & Design diploma program is designed to provide graduates with the relevant skills necessary to enter into and maintain a career in the animation, game and visual effects entertainment industries. Students will develop the technical and creative aptitude necessary to demonstrate and present their skills to industry. This goal is achieved by building a foundation of traditional artistic skills, and then providing students with hands on training in various modern applications.

Career opportunities for graduating students may include 3D Animator, 2D Animator (traditional & vector based), Technical Animator, Video Game Animator, VFX Animator, Junior Production Designer, Motion Capture Artist, Junior Modeler, Junior Texture Artist, Render Wrangler, and a host of related entry-level animation production positions.

Each 3 month term of the program is comprised of tightly integrated, cohesive courses in which students accomplish specific, industry driven competencies and outcomes. Each course builds on the lessons of the ones before it and each term is a prerequisite for the following. The Animation Art & Design diploma program enables students to gain the fundamental artistic skills necessary to enter into and maintain a career in Media Arts industries.