Overview

Animation and Visual Effects from University of New South Wales combines technical, conceptual, creative and professional skills to enable you to work independently and collaboratively to realise your artistic vision. With access to world-class facilities and a diverse community of artists and designers, you’ll be guided by academics with a wealth of industry experience. Creative experimentation and skills development are at the core of the program, giving you the freedom and support to explore your interests and refine your techniques for the creative production pipelines of today and tomorrow.

Key features

Holistic artistic development

Informed by the latest industry developments, you'll learn a variety of technical processes and approaches as well as creative and conceptual skills that prepare you to work in a variety of roles across and beyond the creative pipeline. From pre-visualisation to output, you'll combine hands on skills with a deep understanding of screen aesthetics and attention to broader social, cultural and technological contexts. This dynamic combination of practical and contextual learning is designed to build your ability to think laterally, adapt across disciplines, and solve creative, conceptual and technical problems as an artist.

Agility and leadership for an evolving future

You’ll also gain in-demand capabilities across teamwork, resilience and communication, helping you become a sought-after professional in the animation and visual effects sector and beyond. This complementary skillset will set you up to be agile, adaptable, future-oriented and ready to drive and lead change in a rapidly evolving animation and VFX industry into the future, as well as in new and emerging sectors using digital visualisation technologies.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Animating movement, storyboarding, and pre-visualisation
3D visualisation and modelling
VFX compositing, matte painting, and camera tracking
Responding to industry briefs and working in teams
Production planning, documentation, and realisation
Full production workflow from conceptualisation to outcome

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-06-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-08 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2026-09-15 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-14 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-08-28 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-02-17 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-13 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-01-30 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-06-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-31 00:00:00 , International

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Language

English

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Credits

96 alternative credits

Delivered

Blended

Campus Location

Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

CRICOS Code: 113670M

Depending on the level and nature of your prior qualifications, admission to the Master of Animation and Visual Effects has three entry points with different duration and units of credit (UOC) required for completion:

2-year program (96 UOC)

If you have an unrelated Bachelor’s degree in any field with a record of achievement equivalent to a UNSW credit average (65%).

Applicants who apply without a Bachelor's degree can be admitted to the Graduate Certificate on a case-by-case basis by the Program Director. They can articulate through to the Graduate Diploma, and then the Masters by maintaining a credit average.

1.5-year program (72 UOC)

If you have completed a Bachelor’s degree in a related field with a record of achievement equivalent to a UNSW credit average (65%) you’ll be granted admission into the 1.5-year program.

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48500 AUD / year

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1000 AUD / year

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