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Prepare for professional success in the animation industry

If you come to life at the thought of a career as a professional animator, doing your animation degree at Griffith will give you the skills to stand out in this ultra-competitive global industry. Ranked top 2 in Australia*, our animation degree covers every aspect of animated filmmaking.

You'll develop your own vision as an artist and animator, studying concept development, storyboarding, 2D, 3D and stop-motion character animation, motion capture, editing, graphic processes, sound recording, visual effects, post-production, marketing and distribution. You'll use top of the line hardware and premium industry-recognised software to produce original animated projects, from concept to delivery.

*Animation Career Review 2023 College Rankings

Griffith Film School portfolio admission

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Study animation at Griffith

Learn from the world's best

Access an exciting calendar of exhibitions, guest lectures, master classes and artist talks. Screen your work and collaborate with Griffith Film School filmmakers, games designers and musicians at Griffith University's Queensland Conservatorium.

Study under award-winning industry experts. Griffith Film School students learn from acclaimed figures such as Hollywood directors Gil Bettman and Mark Travis, character and performance expert Myrna Gawryn and Academy award-winning animator Adam Elliot. Master classes in animation presented by the esteemed Gobelins School in Paris are regularly hosted by Griffith Film School, along with master classes by multi-Oscar award-winning producer, Lord David Puttnam.

Experiment and specialise

You'll be fully prepared for careers in the animation industry. The essential theoretical and practical skills are comprehensively covered through majors in:

  • Animating
  • Art direction
  • Technical direction (CGI)
  • Streams in post-production FX, script and stop-motion fabrication.
Choose to work in traditional drawn animation, 2D, 3D and motion-captured digital animation, 3D puppet or clay animation and other experimental media.

Practical experience

Build your portfolio and develop vital contacts and networks through our key industry links. Intern with local studios, including Ludo Studio, producers of the award-winning children’s animation Bluey. Work on projects for real clients through our commercial multimedia production arm, LiveLab, led by BAFTA award-winning creative director Richard Fabb.

LiveLab works with local creators to produce global online content and were a part of the Queensland Creative Entrepreneurship Program, that brought together YouTube, the Queensland Government and LiveLab to offer content creators world-class skills.

Toon Boom Centre of Excellence

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. This qualification provides graduating students the advantage of being in high demand for world recognised studio careers that value a deep knowledge of Toon Boom 2D animation software.

Go Global

Journey to outback Queensland to collaborate on productions with partner schools including Falmouth University and Beijing Film Academy; or travel overseas on study tours and extended exchange programs with our international partner universities.

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Studying animation at Griffith will give you the skills to stand out in this global industry.

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Peeping Winkle

Lonesome Malvin’s Christmas wish to have a friend and his peculiar elderly neighbour’s endeavour to make it come true.

Director and Producer: Michael Linhart

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Greb

The tale of a young, greedy chameleon who must run for his life to keep his prize–a large grub—eyed by a larger kingfisher.

Director/Animator: Naomi Scutts

Producer: Kate Doroshenko

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Warm Winter

In a snowy winter, a son had a quarrel with his mother before going abroad. The mother tried to say goodbye to him the last minute but the taxi took off...

Director and Animator: Xin Li

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Animation graduate productions

Our animation graduate productions are screened at film festivals around the world.

Image credit: Still from graduate animation, Dot 2019

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Animation alumni create International Emmy Award winning kids TV show

Griffith Film School alumnus Joe Brumm created hit international series Bluey after watching his daughters at play. The ABC TV show has become a global phenomenon, winning awards including a Logie, an AACTA and even an International Emmy Award.

The show has become an international success story built on the work of Griffith Film School alumni, with our graduates making up more than half of the workforce on Bluey.

More scholarships than ever before!

From 2024 Griffith will be offering over 1000 scholarships helping students to cover living and education expenses.

Scholarships are free to apply and offer support for academic achievement, relocation, First Peoples, sports achievement and others. One application form, all scholarships considered.

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Career outcomes

With your Animation degree from Griffith, you can practice your craft globally as a creative, innovative, collaborative storyteller

You'll be fully grounded in the techniques needed to establish yourself as a professional working on animation and visual effects for film, television, computer games and interactive media companies. Animators are becoming more sought after and you'll be prepared for a career that incorporates multiple creative pathways, including:

  • Designing characters and environments for 2D and CGI/3D-animated projects
  • Scriptwriting, storyboarding and pre-visualisation
  • Illustration
  • Comics and Graphic art
  • Compositing
  • Matte painting
  • Visual effects
  • Motion capture
  • 2D, 3D and stop-motion animation
  • Production management.

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Life at Griffith

You can gain more than just a degree at Griffith. With plenty of opportunities to balance life and study, you can make memories and mates to last a lifetime.

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Monday 3 March — Saturday 14 June

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Monday 14 July — Saturday 25 October

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Monday 3 November — Saturday 21 February

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Our third teaching trimester starts on 3 November.

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