Bachelor of Design (3D Animation)

2025 Deakin University Handbook

Year

2025 course information

Award granted

Bachelor of Design (3D Animation)

Deakin course codeA343
Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Campus

Offered at Burwood (Melbourne)

For students who commenced prior to 2023 only

Duration3 years full-time or part-time equivalent
CRICOS course code095255B 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

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 structure

Level 1

ACF214Screen Practices [replaces ADA101]

ADA102Designing 3D Animated Environments

ADA107Principles of Animation [replaces ACF107]

ADD105Design Fundamentals [replaces ADD102]

ADT102Interaction Design [replaces ADD103]

Plus two Level 1 elective units of which one must be a course elective

Level 2

ADA201Character Design and Development for Animation

ADA202Character Animation

ADA204Animated Motion Graphics

ADD207Environmental Design [replaces ADD203]

ADD209Design Laboratory [previously ADD104]

ADT203Games 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

ADD305Strategic Design Studio [replaces ADD301]

ACC302Advertising: Desire, Consumption and the Attention Economy [replaces ADD301]

ADD303Design for Change

ADD306Creative Design Studio [replaces ADD304]

ALM305Media Ecologies [replaces ADD304]

Plus one level 3 general elective 

ADD301 Collaborative Design Project [2 credit points, no longer available for enrolment, replacement units ADD305 & ACC302]

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, replacement units ADD306 & ALM305]

Course electives

Plus 2 credit points of course electives from:

ACF215The Art and Design of Sound [replaces ACA203]

ACF103Writing with the Camera

AWL300Internship [replaces ACC317]

ADA206Visual Effects and Effects Animation [replaces ACF212]

ACP103Acting Studio

ADD206Information Design [previously ADV206, ADD202]

ADD208Illustration Design [replaces ADV101]

ADT202Web and Interface Design [replaces ADV205]

IND101Introduction to Aboriginal Studies

SIT102Introduction to Programming [previously SIT110]

SIT122Robotics Studio

SIT183Interactive 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

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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