In our Animation degree program, you’ll learn from industry professionals, using the same techniques and tools that you'll eventually need in the workplace. Using state-of-the-art software and hardware, you’ll create your own stories, designs, characters and layouts, and produce your own films.
Career Opportunities
Employers regard our animators as the cream of the crop; Sheridan graduates routinely go straight to work for top-flight studios and firms in feature films, television animation, gaming and advertising.
Learning Outcomes
Program Critical Performance:
By the end of the program, the graduate will have demonstrated the ability to create quality animation performance through a creative and professional portfolio using principles of animation, drawing, design, cinematic storytelling, artistic expertise and innovation. The graduate will have exhibited a personal and professional commitment to artistic growth and cultural literacy that conveys passion, confidence, a collaborative and independent spirit, refined communications skills, and the adaptability to work within a dynamic animation community.
Create animated sequences from the development of the original concept through design to final film or video production.
Communicate ideas, believable action and emotion effectively by employing principles of animation and performance in all aspects of drawing.
Integrate the concepts, principles and theories involved in the physics of animation in all aspects of drawing.
Refine personal narrative voice that holistically integrates the elements of storytelling and performance in order to actively engage the audience.
Create 2D and 3D characters and environments that reflect the integration of graphic clarity, design principles, performance principles and theoretical constructs.
Design layouts and backgrounds that incorporate principles of composition, perspective and colour, with speed, accuracy and dexterity, using a variety of media.
Create an animated film incorporating a range of artistic styles and techniques, reflecting the principle that form follows function.
Coordinate and manage the production of a student film, including the aspects of cinematography, art direction and editing.
Collaborate effectively with peers on film projects.
Use critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies in all dimensions of development and production.
Manage targets within the production schedule to effectively achieve completion of required tasks.
Communicate ideas, emotion and intent effectively in visual, oral and written forms.
Generate work that reflects initiative, creativity, adaptability and personal style.
Create animation that incorporates the basic principles of constructive anatomy and drawing using economy of expression.
Incorporate technology effectively in the development of animation projects.
Esperado Setembro 2024
Trafalgar Road Campus
1430 Trafalgar Road,
OAKVILLE,
Ontario (ON),
L6H 2L1, Canada
Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
English, Grade 12 (ENG4U)
plus
One Grade 11 or 12 Visual Arts credit at the M, or Open Level
Four other Grade 12 subjects at the U or M level
Minimum 65% overall average
or
Two semesters of postsecondary education including required courses with a minimum 65% overall average
English-language proficiency testing:
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language): 88 (21L,W,S,R) iBT (Internet-based TOEFL) or 570 Paper-based
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic Module: 6.5 – Overall Band Score with no Band below 6.0
PTE A (Pearson Test of English Academic): 60 – Overall Minimum Score (57L,W,S,R)
FCE (Cambridge English: First): 176 – Cambridge English Scale or FCE A
CAE (Cambridge English: Advanced): 180 – Cambridge English Scale or CAE C
CPE (Cambridge English: Proficiency): 200 – Cambridge English Scale or CPE C
Sheridan EAP (English for Academic Purposes): 75%
Sheridan EPA (English Proficiency Assessment): 4.5 – Listening Band, 4.5 – Reading Combined Band, CLB 8 - Writing