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Highlights

• Develop practical skills in motion graphics, 3D graphics, drawing and real-time modelling for virtual environments, and highly developed business knowledge.
• Gain experience and contacts in your industry through professional industry placements and projects.
• Choose independent study options where you can design and implement creative work.
• Complete 2 separate degrees in 4 years full-time.
• Complement your animation skills with a business major in accounting, advertising, economics, finance, financial planning, human resource management, international business, management, marketing or public relations.

Throughout the course you will work in a studio setting responding to creative briefs that help you to develop a robust set of skills and knowledge that can be used for the expression of creative and innovative ideas. As you explore both 2D and 3D animation, you will gain an understanding of animation for filmmaking, game development, visual effects, motion graphics and virtual production.

Immerse yourself in the fine arts animation major with up to 16 discipline units and gain in-depth knowledge in your specialisation. Your business degree component comprises eight business core units and eight business major units.

Why choose this course?

New start-ups driven by animation are emerging at a fast pace. With a business and animation double degree you will combine business knowledge with hands-on experience in animated filmmaking, visual effects, game development and the visual arts. This combined degree opens up a wide range of creative and business careers. You will graduate not only with advanced technical and creative skills, but also with highly developed business knowledge.

This course will allow you to tailor your learning to the industry areas of most interest to you and broaden your skill set making you stand out to employers, or give you the abilities to start your own creative enterprise.

Careers and outcomes

QUT graduates are employed as animators, concept artists, visual effects artists, game artists and designers across a range of industries and wide diversity of employers including animation studios and traditional film production houses, computer games companies, visual effects and post-production companies, advertising and design agencies, and information visualisation and real-time studios.

Our graduates find employment in the many Brisbane-based animation companies, or throughout Australia and across the globe. Several are award-winning storytellers, successfully producing animated short films that screen at festivals globally.

A double degree with business will broaden your skill set and make you stand out to employers, or give you the abilities to start your own creative enterprise.

Professional recognition

Students may be eligible for membership to a number of professional bodies depending on choice of major and unit selection in their business degree. Details on professional recognition can be found under the individual majors of the Bachelor of Business (BS05).

Research pathways

Bachelor of Business (Honours) option

High-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in BS63 Bachelor of Business (Honours).