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Overview
Lights. Camera. VR goggles. Action! Where better to study than in Wellywood, New Zealand's capital of animation, CGI, and making movies and TV shows.
Learn from award-winning staff and industry experts. Discover new ideas in areas such as cinematography and 3D modelling. Master new skills using our state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, including a gear library stocked with cameras, lighting and VR/AR kits.
Film, animation and VFX is a good fit if you:
- do well in design, visual arts (ng膩 toi) or technology (hangarau)
- want to tell stories and harness new ways to
- like creative thinking and making things.
Animation and VFX courses
Gain skills to create fantastic characters and scenes, using advanced technology and traditional techniques for cartoons and model-making.
Animation and VFX courses may cover:
- 3D modelling
- animation techniques such as texturing, rigging and compositing
- CGI including motion capture and green screens
- character design
- storyboarding
- VR, AR and MR (mixed or hybrid reality), also called immersive design.
Film and TV courses
Gain skills to tell compelling stories on screen 鈥撀爁actual, fictional, or creative non-fiction.
Film and TV courses may cover:
- camera operation
- cinematography
- editing
- lighting, sound and post-production skills
- screenwriting
- story and concept development.
How to study film, animation and VFX
Discover what we offer if you鈥檙e interested in film, animation and VFX 鈥 whether you鈥檙e coming to university for the first time, changing direction or returning to advance your study or career.
Undergraduate study
Bachelor's degrees
Media Studies 鈥 Bachelor of Arts
Interested in television and popular culture? Social media and fake news? Filmmaking and cultural theory? Media studies can help you unlock your creative potential and develop practical skills to excel in your career.
Media Studies 鈥 Bachelor of Communication
Discover how the media shape our identities and our world. Massey will help you create, critique, and connect with the media world, building skills to understand and make media for a wide range of professional communication roles.
Undergraduate bachelor's degrees with honours
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours 鈥 BFA(Hons)
Discover how to produce work that makes people think and feel, act and react. Whatever your mode of art-making is, we鈥檒l help you find and develop your own creative voice.
Visual Communication Design 鈥 Bachelor of Design with Honours
Visual communication is one of the most universal forms of design. It is at the heart of how our world works; guiding, informing, persuading, and inspiring us every day.
Animation 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
Animation is a huge industry, found in almost all the visual media we consume, such as games, film, television, and interactive media.
Film Production 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
The Film Production major offers comprehensive, practical filmmaking, covering all aspects of film production including creative development, pre-production, production and post-production.
Factual Production 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
Storytelling is the basis for all human connection, and stories that tell us about real people, situations and issues are compelling touchstones in relating to our fast-changing times. True stories shape our identity and reflect our world back to us.
Immersive Media 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
Virtual and Augmented Realities (VR and AR) allow new ways for us to blend the physical and digital worlds, creating uncharted possibilities for the future.
Media Technology 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
The evolution of media technologies and screen production, driven by digital innovation, is offering new ways of working and is creating new tools and techniques for content production and consumption.
Visual Effects 鈥 Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours
The Visual Effects major provides expertise in creating fantastic characters and scenes for all forms of screen media.
Graduate diploma
Graduate Diploma in Screen Arts 鈥 GradDipSCA
Develop your technical skills and learn to think like a professional in the screen arts sector.
Relevant undergraduate subjects to major or specialise in
When you apply to study at Massey, for some undergraduate qualifications you can choose what subject you鈥檇 like to specialise in. You can usually change your mind after you get to university, depending on the courses you enrol in.
- Media studies within the arts
- Media studies within communication
- Visual communication design
Postgraduate study
Master's degrees
Master of Creative Enterprise 鈥 MCE
Combine research and practice to give you the skills you need to make your mark in the highly competitive creative industries.
Master of Design 鈥 MDes
In the Master of Design, you鈥檒l produce innovative and responsive design work that is thoroughly grounded in design research methodologies and expertly realised.
Master of Fine Arts 鈥 MFA
Embed yourself in a rich dialogue about your creative practice in Massey鈥檚 transdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts qualification, for artists and designers.
Postgraduate diplomas
Postgraduate Diploma in Screen Arts 鈥 PGDipScreenArts
PhD and other doctoral degrees
Doctor of Philosophy 鈥 PhD
A prestigious research qualification that demonstrates your ability to carry out independent and original research in your chosen field.
Our facilities
You'll have access to a wide range of first-class facilities when you study with us.
Virtual and augmented reality
A specialised room where students can explore and prototype virtual spaces and experiences, or create virtual artworks or designs using virtual reality and augmented reality equipment.
Film production facilities
Our facilities are among the best in Australasia and include:
- colour grading suites
- editing tools
- lighting gear
- green screen
- motion capture suite, including 24 camera Vicon motion capture array.
Plus borrow high-end equipment for your projects.
Location: Wellington campus
Toystore
The Toystore offers a wide range of audiovisual equipment for design students to borrow, as well as access to large format printing and technical support.
Fab Lab
Fab Lab Wgtn is Australasia鈥檚 first digital fabrication laboratory (Fab Lab) affiliated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Fab Lab's capabilities include: A computer-controlled laser cutter; numerically-controlled milling machine; a sign cutter; a precision milling machine to make three-dimensional moulds; surface-mount circuit boards; and small 3D printers, for fast production of 3-dimensional forms.
Jobs in film, animation and VFX
Storytellers wanted. In this booming industry, demand is high for those with vision, with an appetite for experimentation and embracing new technologies and forms of expression.
Careers in film, animation and VFX include:
- animators, including 2D, 3D and motion capture
- concept and storyboard artists
- camera operators
- cinematographers
- film and TV directors
- lighting designers and lighting technicians
- prop makers and modellers
- sound designers and sound engineers
- visual effects specialists.
Salary ranges for jobs
- 鈥 $42,000 to $150,000
- 鈥 hourly rates of $20 to $75
- 鈥 pay rates vary
- 鈥 pay rates vary
- 鈥 $42,000 to $100,000
Salary ranges disclaimer
Indicative pay rates are:
- in New Zealand dollars
- based on data.
Which film, animation and VFX qualification?
Examples of where our qualifications may take you.
| Jobs | Examples of what you could study |
|---|---|
| Animator or digital artist |
Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours Bachelor of Design with Honours (Visual Communication Design) |
| Concept designer or costume designer |
Master of Design Bachelor of Design with Honours (Concept Design) |
| Director or cinematographer |
Master of Design Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours |
| Producer | Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours |
Accreditations and rankings
QS Ranking - Art & Design
College of Creative Arts 鈥 Toi Rauwh膩rangi ranks in the global top 150 for art and design by QS World University Rankings.
Red Dot Design ranking
Ranked 3rd in Asia-Pacific by International Red Dot Design Awards, the only design school to be ranked in New Zealand and Australia. This significant achievement recognises the high calibre of our teaching staff and the exceptional quality of our students' design concept work.
NASAD
Massey's College of Creative Arts is New Zealand's only art and design school granted 鈥渟ubstantial equivalency鈥 鈥 an international benchmark of quality 鈥 by the United States National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
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