Bachelor of Design (3D Animation)
2024 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2024 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Design (3D Animation) |
| Deakin course code | A343 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) For students who commenced prior to 2023 only |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 095255B Burwood (Melbourne) |
The final intake to this course was in Trimester 3 2022. Students should contact a Student Adviser in Student Central for course and enrolment information. Further course structure information can be found in the Handbook archive. | |
Course sub-headings
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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 by Faculty Board March 2017 | |
Course rules
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Design (3D Animation), a student must complete 24 credit points including:
- 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
- AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
Course structure
Level 1
| ACF214 | Screen Practices [replaces ADA101] |
| ADA102 | Designing 3D Animated Environments |
| ADA107 | Principles of Animation [replaces ACF107] |
| ADD105 | Design Fundamentals [replaces ADD102] |
| ADT102 | Interaction Design [replaces ADD103] |
Plus two Level 1 elective units of which one must be a course elective
Level 2
| ADA201 | Character Design and Development for Animation |
| ADA202 | Character Animation |
| ADA204 | Animated Motion Graphics |
| ADD207 | Environmental Design [replaces ADD203] |
| ADD209 | Design Laboratory [previously ADD104] |
| ADT203 | Games and Interactive Design [replaces ACF207] |
ACF207 Animation Project [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADT203]
ADD203 Professional Practice in Design [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADD207]
ADA203 Interactive Animation Design Studio [No longer available for enrolment, replacement unit ADA301]
Level 3
| ADD301 | Collaborative Design Project (2 credit points) |
| ADD302 | Individual Design Portfolio |
| ADD303 | Design for Change |
| ADD304 | Creative Design Studio (2 credit points) |
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] |
| ACG308 | Unit description is currently unavailable [no longer available for enrolment] |
| ACP103 | Acting Studio |
| ADD206 | Information Design [previously ADV206, ADD202] |
| ADD208 | Illustration 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