Bachelor of Design (3D Animation)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2026 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Design (3D Animation) |
| Deakin course code | A343 |
| Course Credit Points | 24 |
| Course version | 1 |
| Faculty | |
| Course Information | For students who commenced from 2018 to 2022 |
| Final Intake | Offered to continuing students only. The final intake to this course was in teaching period 3 2022. Students should contact Student Central for course, course map and enrolment information. |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS code | 095255B Burwood (Melbourne) |
Course sub-headings
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Develop theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the forms, functions, processes, languages and materials of animation. Developing the capacity to meet client requirements in a rapidly changing industry setting. |
| Communication | Effectively communicate a range of conceptual, and aesthetic ideas through written, digital and oral formats for a range of audiences in scholarly and professional contexts. |
| Digital literacy | Utilize theoretical knowledge and practical skills with digital technology to achieve animation outcomes. |
| Critical thinking | Acquire skills in critical thinking and the analytical evaluation of design. Critically engaging a range of strategies to achieve professional industry based outcomes. |
| Problem solving | Employ creative methods to resolve real world complex problems through analysis, critical thinking, prototyping and alternative approaches. |
| Self-management | Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility, accountability and a continued commitment to learning and skills development in animation and design |
| Teamwork | Lead, deliver and perform within a collaborative professional team to deliver industry standard outcomes |
| Global citizenship | Critically engage animation’s capacity to act as an agent of change in multiple contexts. To identify and develop proposals for personal and corporate social, cultural and ethical responsibilities in a global and domestic context. |
Approved at Faculty Board March 2017
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Design (3D Animation) students must pass 24 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity Module (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 19 credit points of core units
- 2 credit points of course elective units
- 3 credit points of open elective units
- no more than 10 credit points at level 1
- minimum of 6 credit points at level 3
Students are required to meet the University'sacademic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University's vocabulary.
Course structure
Level 1
| ADA102 | Designing 3D Animated Environments |
| ADA107 | Principles of Animation |
| ADD105 | Design Fundamentals |
| ADT102 | Interaction and UX Design Fundamentals |
Plus two Level 1 elective units of which one must be a course elective
ACF214 Screen Practices [no longer available for enrolment]
ADA101 Designing 3D Motion [no longer available for enrolment, ACF214 previously replaced this unit]
ACF107 Principals of Animation [no longer available for enrolment, ADA107 replaces this unit]
ADD102 Design Skills and Technologies 1 [No longer available for enrolment, ADD105 replaces this unit]
ADD103 Animation Project [No longer available for enrolment, ADT102 replaces this unit]
Level 2
| ADA201 | Character Design and Development for Animation |
| ADA202 | Character Animation |
| ADA204 | Animated Motion Graphics |
ADD207 Environmental Design [no longer available for enrolment]
| ADD204 | Brand and Product Design |
| ADT203 | Games and Interactive Design |
ADD207 Environmental Design [no longer available for enrolment]
ADD209 Design Laboratory [no longer available for enrolment, ADD204 replaces this unit]
ADD203 Professional Practice in Design [No longer available for enrolment, ADD207 previously replaced this unit]
ACF207 Animation Project [No longer available for enrolment, ADT203 replaces this unit]
ADA203 Interactive Animation Design Studio [No longer available for enrolment, ADA301 replaces this unit]
Level 3
| ADD305 | Strategic Design Studio |
| ACC302 | Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy |
| ADD306 | Creative Design Studio |
| ALM305 | Media Ecologies |
Plus one level 3 general elective
ADD303 Design for Change [No longer available for enrolment]
ADD301 Collaborative Design Project [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, ADD305 & ACC302 replace this unit]
ADD302 Individual Design Portfolio [no longer available for enrolment, replacement unit level 3 general elective]
ADD304 Creative Design Studio [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, ADD306 & ALM305 replace this unit]
Course electives
Plus 2 credit points of course electives from:
| ACF215 | The Art and Design of Sound [replaces ACA203] |
| ACF103 | Writing with the Camera |
| AWL300 | Internship [replaces ACC317] |
| ADA206 | Visual Effects and Effects Animation [replaces ACF212] |
| ACP103 | Acting Studio |
| ADD206 | Information and Systems Design [previously ADV206, ADD202] |
| ADD208 | Experimental Publication Design [replaces ADV101] |
| ADT202 | Web and Interface Design [replaces ADV205] |
| IND101 | Introduction to Aboriginal Studies |
| SIT102 | Introduction to Programming [previously SIT110] |
| SIT122 | Robotics Studio |
| SIT183 | Interactive Application Design for Virtual and Augmented Reality |
ADV101 Drawing and Illustration [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADD208]
ADV205 Designing User Experience [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADT202]
ADV206 Iconography and Type [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADD206]
ACC317 Communication and Creative Arts Internship A [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit AWL300]
Plus 3 credit points of open elective units
Fees and charges
Tuition fees will vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, your study load and/or unit discipline.
Your tuition fees will increase annually at the start of each calendar year. All fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD) and do not include additional costs such as textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment, mandatory checks, travel, consumables and other costs.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.