2D Animation & Visual Development Diploma
Love to draw? Grab your pencil and Cintiq and join us as you build your design, classical animation and storyboarding skills.
2D Animation & Visual Development DiplomaCapU’s School of Animation and Visual Effects (AVFX) offers career-oriented programs that are dedicated to inspiring and training a new generation of talent in the animation and visual effects industries.
Why study animation or visual effects at Capilano University?
The curriculum is rigorous and industry-focused; it is designed to feel like and prepare you for work in the field. You'll expand your skills, build an impressive portfolio and begin to build your network through our well attended grad show.
Our computer labs are outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment for digital production, and you’ll learn the skills needed to produce original, high quality work that is in demand. Faculty are all industry professionals who take great pride in running one of the best schools in Canada.
Depending on which program you choose, you will improve your abilities in drawing, design for animation, lighting, composition, 2D layout and backgrounds, art direction, character design, storyboard art, environmental design, effects simulations, live action-CG integration, augmented reality-virtual reality and more.
CapU animation and visual effects graduates are working in a wide range of fields at many top digital production studios in Vancouver and around the world. Others have gone on to form their own companies or successful freelance careers.
While Vancouver is known for its work on features and series, our programs can also lead to careers in game cinematics, commercials, advertising firms, educational content, not-for-profits and other content creation services. For a look at our recent graduates, please visit CapU Gradshow.
3D Animation for Film & Games Diploma
Create perfectly rendered characters and interactive environments and get the skills to work in games, TV and feature films.
3D Animation for Film and Games Diploma
Animation Fundamentals Citation
Learn about creating traditional and computer animation while building up your abilities in design and animation in a two-month sprint.
Animation Fundamentals Citation
Visual Effects for Film, Streaming & Immersive Media Diploma
Get trained by VFX pros on the best tools, including Nuke, Houdini and Maya, to breathe life into your creative ideas.
Visual Effects DiplomaUnreal Engine Authorized Training Partner
The School of AVFX is an authorized Unreal Engine training partner.
The school also offers custom Unreal Engine workshops, designed to boost the skills of students, designers and developers in the world's most advanced real-time 3D creation tool, all facilitated by Unreal Authorized instructors.
Industry standard labs equipped with drawing tablets
Using high-end graphics workstations with advanced 2D and 3D animation software, you'll develop an eye for quality imagery, virtual environments and media while embracing your natural curiosity.
Motion Capture Studio
The motion capture studio is capable of supporting full body capture including fingers and face in a 40 x 40 volume running state-of-the-art, high-end OptiTrack passive and active camera systems.
AR and VR
Our 3D and VFX programs support virtual reality as a potential career path via the 40x40 foot capture stage, which incorporates wireless tools to allow for full immersion in a variety of media types.
Green screen
A floor-to-ceiling, 270-degree green screen wrap supports VFX students, allowing for a variety of shot types which require compositing to integrate actors in computer generated environments.
Camera, lighting and grip equipment
Black Magic Design Cameras and Canon DSLR’s provide opportunities to learn key cinematography skills, translating real world techniques to the digital arena through hands-on experiential hardware.
