College Advanced Diploma in Animation

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¿Qué aprenderé?

Bring your drawing skills to life through acting and storytelling.

The three-year Animation Ontario College Advanced Diploma program provides you with the skills needed to meet the standards of the demanding international animation industry. As a student attending one of the best animation programs in Canada (as ranked by Animation Career Review, 2019), you learn industry-standard technologies, drawing and animation skills.

This program focuses on acting and body mechanics and where you learn traditional, 3D, tradigital (using Toon Boom`s Harmony) and video game animation techniques. Our faculty members are industry professionals who have worked for studios such as:

  • Disney
  • Sony Image Works
  • Mercury Film works
  • Jam Filled Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Animation
  • Corus
  • Pip
  • Kratts
  • Ubisoft

Gain the ability to communicate your ideas through drawing, and to present them visually. Learn to see images in motion -a skill necessary for an animator, and ensure your animated creations are realistic and meet industry standards.

Focus is on layout, location and character design, gesture drawing and anatomy studies of the nude model, all culminating in performance-based character animation.

By the end of the program, you have a portfolio and demo reel that showcases your work. This highlights your creativity, skills and proficiency with relevant animation software and technologies, demonstrating that you are ready to enter the field.

There are many job opportunities for graduates of this program. You may find work as a(n):

  • animator at a professional animation or game studio
  • layout artist
  • location or character designer
  • 3D animator, rigger or modeller
  • background artist
  • tradigital rigger or modeller

Other employment opportunities might include working on feature films, animated TV series or commercials.

Careers:

Graduates may find employment in the booming animation industry in local (Ottawa) studios, or Canadian animation centres like Toronto, Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver or with studios around the world. Animation grads are sought after with a hiring rate in the +90% range with 100% employer satisfaction according to post graduate surveys. Third year students might also have the opportunity to work in a studio during part of the school year. There are also opportunities for advanced learning to earn a degree through our articulation partners.

¿En cuál departamento estoy?

School of Media and Design

Opciones de estudio

a tiempo completo (3 )

Costos de estudio
CAD$18.456,00 (US$ 13.557) por año
Fecha de inicio

7 Septiembre 2024

Lugar

Algonquin College

Woodroffe Campus,

1385 Woodroffe Avenue,

OTTAWA,

Ontario (ON),

K2G 1V8, Canada

Requerimiento de entrada

Para estudiantes internacionales

College Eligibility

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent. Applicants with an OSSD showing senior English and/or Mathematics courses at the Basic Level, or with Workplace or Open courses, will be tested to determine their eligibility for admission; OR

Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) certificate; OR

General Educational Development (GED) certificate; OR

Mature Student status (19 years of age or older and without a high school diploma at the start of the program). Eligibility may be determined by academic achievement testing for which a fee of CAN $50 (subject to change) will be charged.

Applicants with International transcripts must provide proof of the subject specific requirements noted above along with proof of either: IELTS-International English Language Testing Service-Overall band of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each band; OR TOEFL-Internet-based (iBT)-overall 80, with the minimum of 20 in each component: Reading: 20; Listening: 20; Speaking: 20; Writing: 20.

Deadline :February 1.

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