Diploma in Specialised Animation

This is where the art of emotion comes in.

The Diploma in Specialised Animation is all about taking those core foundation skills learnt in the first year and learning more specialised techniques. We’ll teach you how to inject emotion into your characters to bring them to life, plus you’ll hone your world-building, conceptualising and narrative design skills.

We’ll up the ante on your studio projects, giving you exciting opportunities to utilise your knowledge in a practical way. By now you’ll have the prowess to generate professional animation projects using the industry-standard production pipeline. You’ll be using drawing principles to construct models, and integrating animation with live action footage.

Yoobee Colleges officially formed in May 2019.

The creative minds and legacies of South Seas Film & Television School, Animation College, Yoobee School of Design, AMES – The Institute of IT and Design & Arts (Canterbury) joined forces to become Yoobee Colleges, an interdisciplinary college with seven campuses located across New Zealand.

The colleges all have rich histories, dating back 30 years in some cases, and they have been working collaboratively for several years to offer complementary pathway programmes.

The official joining of these forces under one umbrella strengthens these relationships, enabling greater pathway options for students and stronger educational outcomes, as some of the best creative educators in New Zealand come together for the joint purpose of training the country’s top creatives and IT professionals and getting them into rewarding careers.