Trades Academy Digital Media: Animation and Game Design
Course details
| NZQF Level | 3 |
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About the course
This is a course that uses a wide range of media and animation tools to develop digital games and content.
Digital Media: Animation and Game Design is the field of study and industry that focuses on creating animated content and designing video games using digital tools and technologies. This discipline combines creative skills, storytelling, and technical knowledge to produce engaging visual experiences for various platforms, including films, television, websites, mobile devices, and gaming consoles.
Students who gain the most from this course are those who are willing to experiment and work outside their comfort zones to create highly conceptual and imaginative works.
What you will learn:
A student successfully completing this strand will be able to:
- Locate, alter and create images using digital image editing software
- Use a range of digital devices and tools to gather content for collaborative design outcomes
- Use filmmaking techniques to combine imagery with sound for creative outputs
- Employ drawing techniques to create Toi Māori content for motion graphics
- Present game concepts and narratives for feedback to resolve a gaming solution
- Plan and create assets and characters for game design
- Manage a game development pipeline
- Use software applications to create a prototype 2D game outcome
More detail about this qualification
- Start dates:
- Tuesday 9 February, 2027
- Thursday 11 February, 2027
- Weekly commitment:
- Te Awakairangi (Petone) Campus: 9am-2:30pm (inc. 30min lunch), Monday/Tuesday
- Te Awakairangi (Petone) Campus: 9am-2:30pm (inc. 30min lunch), Thursday/Friday
- Equipment needed: Students must wear closed-in shoes.
- Travel: This is provided free, subject to students meeting MoE requirements
- Application: Students must be enrolled in a secondary school in the Wellington region and be enrolled in a WTA course by their secondary school.
- Interview: Students may be requested to attend an interview with a family member or school representative.
- Qualification: NCEA Level 2 with credit towards Vocational Pathway award.
- Credits: On successful completion of this course, students will have gained 31 credits – 21 Level 2 and 10 Level 3 credits.
- Assessment: Assessment is competency-based against unit standard outcomes and related evidence requirements. Assessments will follow the processes required by NZQA and relevant industry requirements.
About the provider
Whitireia and WelTec have a history of over 100 years of
vocational education delivery. We are proud stewards of our whakapapa, owning
our collective histories and aspirations for the future through acknowledging
people, place, culture, and values.
Whitireia and WelTec is known for our high student success rates and culturally diverse ākonga. Every year we train over 8,000 ākonga who study at one of our campuses across Porirua and Petone. Our highly skilled staff will be with you every step of your journey, providing the best possible learning environment. We enable learners from every stage of life – school leavers, university graduates, those preparing to reenter the workforce and those wanting to retrain or upskill. Our learning environments are open and ready to welcome you all.
More and more New Zealanders are choosing a local study pathway through dedicated vocational education providers to gain the qualifications they need to get ahead and into their dream job. We offer a range of programmes of study at certificates, diplomas, degrees, and postgraduate qualifications. Our programmes have been developed in conjunction with industry to offer excellent vocational qualifications that are future-focused and provide ākonga with practical skills to pursue their career goals.
We are known for our Ahureitanga (distinctiveness), and we have special relationships with Iwi mana whenua as our campuses are in their rohe: Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Together, we are more than the sum of our parts.
Mā tātou, mō tātou ko WelTec ki Te Āti Awa, ko Whitireia ki Ngāti Toa Rangatira. E haere kōtui nei me kura-takahi-puni tātou. Together, we will lead and illuminate our communities through vocational education.