Diploma in Digital Animation
Diploma programme
Diploma in Digital Animation
Animation is a craft of patience and precision. This diploma takes you from first keyframe to final render.
Programme codeFA4403
MOHE refR/213/4/0179
Duration2.5 years
Semesters7
StatusMQA accredited
About the programme
You work through drawing and design fundamentals into 2D and 3D animation, modelling, compositing and editing. Point College's alliances with award-winning studios, Trixter (animation and visual effects on Iron Man 3) and AnimaPoint / AnimaVitae (producers of the NIKO films), mean you spend time working the way real productions work.
What you’ll study
Modules across the full 28 module programme, as listed in the college programme profile.
Modules
- Basic drawing
- Basic computer skills
- English 1
- Pengajian Malaysia
- Entrepreneurial foundations
- Visual storytelling
- Digital photography
- Colour research
- History of Art & Design
- Design principles and elements
- Conceptual rendering skills
- 3D Modelling 1
- Digital illustrations
- Perspective studies
- Integration and ethical practice
- Pre-production animation
- Animated drawings
- English 2
- 3D Animation 1
- Digital Animation (2D)
- 3D Modelling 2
- 3D Animation 2
- Compositing and editing
- Professional Practice
- Intellectual Property and Cyber Law
- Creative thinking
- Industrial training
- Final project
Where it leads
Roles graduates move into.
Career path
2D / 3D animator
Career path
Modelling and texturing
Career path
Visual effects and compositing
Career path
Game and film pre-production
Applications are open
Intakes in April/May and July/August. The online form takes about ten minutes.