September, 2025
From January, 2025 to June, 2025
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We've designed the Diploma
in Advanced 3D Animation and 3D Modelling with a comprehensive curriculum
to prepare you to enter the entertainment and creative arts industry confident
and job-ready. Leveraging KPU's hands-on approach to learning, this two-year,
full-time program delivers you the core practical and artistic skills you need
to be successful in the entertainment arts industry. Starting with traditional
drawing and sculpting techniques, you'll apply these artistic skills to your 3D
models, environments and animations. Your 3D animation courses focus on
animation principles, while integrating rigging, basic scripting, cloth
simulation, body mechanics and animation for characters, inanimate objects and
creatures. Your 3D modelling courses teach you the latest industry techniques
in the fields of hard surface modelling, sculpting, texturing and surfacing. The integration of look development, shading and
compositing fundamentals helps bring your 3D models and animations together for
polished, final compositions.
Career Path
Graduates of the Diploma in
Advanced 3D Animation and 3D Modelling have the knowledge,
skills and confidence to find employment in the VFX and games animation
industries. Graduates are qualified to work as 3D animators, character
animators, riggers, 3D modellers, texturing and surfacing artists, storyboard
artists, layout artists and more.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University will accept, for the purposes of meeting the English proficiency requirement, English taken in 12-year education, or English is designated as the primary and official language and the principle language of instruction. If you do not meet the English language requirements yet, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme with the university or submit
From January, 2025 to June, 2025
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From January, 2025 to October, 2025
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From May, 2025 to June, 2026
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