Overview

The Screen Arts with Honours - Animation at Massey University builds on the core three-year degree, offering an additional year of advanced practice, industry engagement and research opportunities.

Key facts

You’ll extend your professional animation skills with opportunities for industry internships and specialised skills development.

You’ll also undertake research-led creative projects that explore animation as an art form, industry practice, or pathway for innovation – whether that’s deepening your technical expertise, refining your storytelling craft, or developing soft skills to support your future employment or independent practice.

This additional year provides a flexible space to focus on your personal creative direction while engaging critically with contemporary developments in animation and screen industries.

Career

Animator (both 2D and 3D), digital artist, modeller, texture artist, shader/lighting artist, background artist, concept artist, content developer, VR/AR content developer, animation director, animation producer, line producer, storyboard artist, motion capture animator, character/creature technical director, virtual producer, director, producer, writer.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Computer Animation

Computer Animation Production

Animation Project

Prototyping and Development for Advanced Creative Media Production Projects

Major Project Pre-production

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-07-13 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-19 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-02-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-31 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-02-05 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-07-13 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-01 00:00:00 , International

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Applications will be considered after these dates if spaces are available.

Language

English

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Credits

480 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Disciplines

Animation View 7 other Bachelors in Animation in New Zealand

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

Birth certificate
Current passport
Residency visa
Citizenship certificate

English language proficiency documents
To be admitted to an undergraduate qualification, you will need a minimum level of academic achievement from school, or another university or tertiary institution. The specific level depends on which country or region of the world you are from.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

45580 NZD / year

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Citizens or residents

9957 NZD / year

≈ 9957 NZD / year

Living costs

Palmerston North

New Zealand

1100 - 2100 NZD / month

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