Diploma - Advanced 3D Animation and 3D Modelling

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.

Eligibility

Post Study Work Visa

Post Study Work Visa availability - YES

Admission Requirement

We’ve simplified the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. You can find all requirements for admission to Kwantlen Polytechnic University below
  • WASSCE/A level Certificate
  • School Transcript
  • Passport
  • Recommendation Letter

English Language Requirement

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 

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) or PTE Score or Duolingo English Test score before you start your course.

Intakes

September, 2025

From January, 2025 to June, 2025

Open

January, 2026

From January, 2025 to October, 2025

Open

September, 2026

From May, 2025 to June, 2026

Open