Overview

Covering 2D and 3D art, digital animation, VFX, motion capture, Houdini 3D modeling and more, Flinders’ visual effects and entertainment design programs will open up a world of career possibilities.

You may be an illustrator transitioning into 3D modelling. You may be an editor who wants to add VFX compositing to your skill set. You may be a cinematographer who wants to move from operating a camera to designing a virtual star ship.

Video is everywhere, and no matter what industry you’re in, building new skills in visual effects and entertainment design will help you stay ahead of the game and future-proof your career.

Around Australia and across the world, artists are increasingly making their careers working in VFX and games.

3D art and VFX is everywhere, from movies, TV and games to digital avatars in AR and immersive worlds in VR. No matter what industry you’re in, building new skills in visual effects and entertainment design will help you stay ahead of the game and future-proof your career.

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Why study Visual Effects and Entertainment Design at Flinders?

Ranked the world’s #1 digital illustration school*
Taught in partnership with CDW Studios, in Adelaide’s CBD
Flinders is SA’s #1 Uni in Creative Arts for overall educational experience and skills development^
Practice-based courses linked directly to industry skills
Growing demand locally and internationally
We have strong connections to industry and long experience in preparing graduates for rewarding, meaningful careers.

*The Rookies Global Rankings, 2017 & 2018

^ The Good Universities Guide 2021 (undergraduate), public SA-founded universities only)

What you will study

Graduate Certificate in Visual Effects and Entertainment Design

Graduate Diploma in Visual Effects and Entertainment Design

Master of Visual Effects and Entertainment Design

Explore a new reality

The explosion of new technologies across the film and gaming industries are heralding a fundamental shift in the way we consume visual media in our day-to-day lives.

Today’s consumers demand high-quality video and gaming art, story-telling and cutting-edge ideas.

Flinders postgraduate visual effects and entertainment design programs will help you step ahead and explore a new reality.

Master the medium

As technology and techniques continue to change and improve, Flinders postgraduate visual effects and entertainment design programs will continue to develop. Our programs are closely linked to industry, allowing you to work alongside industry specialists on projects that match your passions and will enhance your career. This includes undertaking an industry placement with one of our placement partners, including: CDW, Mighty Kingdom, Monkeystack, and many more.

Flinders Master of Visual Effects and Entertainment Design dives even deeper into the theory behind the industry, helping you build new skills and a greater, career-ready understanding of filmmaking, across areas such as project management, industry standards and financing your projects.

Artwork: Nathan Thorman Bachelor of Visual Effects and Entertainment Design

Virtual production, real impact

The Void at Flinders is unique.

It is a motion-capture space that seemingly defies reality, featuring state-of-the-art technology that makes green screen look antique, and gives students the opportunity to not only experiment with ideas, but take them to surprising places.

Virtual filmmaking is shaking up the industry, and The Void gives you the chance to explore the latest techniques and produce amazing work. You’ll learn to better understand film production, and the possibilities of virtual film production through hands-on experience in an incredible studio environment.

Flinders visual effects and entertainment design programs have a unique advantage, with facilities unmatched by anything in South Australia.

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Your career

Flinders graduates include 2D concept artist and 3D modellers, animators, matte painters, cinematographers, editors, illustrators, producers, VFX artists. Your diverse range of skills and portfolio of creative achievements will make you attractive to a wide range of employers in the creative industries at home and internationally.

Potential occupations include:

concept artist
animator (2D or 3D)
2D or 3D Artist
Motion Designer
Environment Artist
illustrator
FX Artist
Compositor
Motion Capture TD

Potential employers include:

Film and television
Digital media and design companies
VFX companies
Video game developers
other media production companies including:
- Monkeystack
- Gameloft
- Blizzard
- Disney
- Pixar
- Technicolor

STRAIGHT OUT OF UNI INTO A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER

It was the biggest screen production ever made in South Australia, but for Flinders’ graduate Anthony Robinson, Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Effects and Entertainment Design) (Honours), Mortal Kombat represented something even bigger - an opportunity to step straight out of university and into a major Hollywood blockbuster.

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Jason Bevan

A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and practitioner in Visual Effects, Postproduction, Animation and Film related courses. Jason has been a Course Leader in Visual Effects and associated subjects for over 2 decades. Before joining Flinders, he spent 2019 working as an Associate Professor in Visual Effects at XJTLU in Suzhou, China, helping to set up a new State of the Art Film School. He is currently an honorary Associate Professor in Visual Effects at the University of Liverpool in the UK.

Originally graduated with a degree in Animation, Jason was a 3D stop frame and 2D animator before developed a career in Postproduction, becoming a technical advisor for the Animation Industry in the South West of England and Wales. Jason has been an animator and compositor for children’s television series and an external consultant for animation training in the UK. After a return to Post Graduate Study, Jason became a lecturer in Computer Animation and Digital Video Design, and it is here he developed courses centered around postproduction and Motion Design. Jason previously ran Undergraduate and Post Graduate award-winning degrees in Visual Effects at the University of South Wales in the UK which are accredited by Screen Skills (Skillset).

Graduates from his courses have been head hunted by the Industry and gone on to work for major Visual Effects studios around the world with students currently working in Vancouver, Montreal, London, Cardiff, and Adelaide. Graduate Students Credits include Avengers End Game, The Jungle Book, Harry Potter, Inception, Captain America, The Lion King and Wonder Woman as well as many domestic shows from Bait Studio, Double Negative and Milk Visual Effects.

Jason is a regular guest speaker at Visual Effects education events and has presented at the FMX conference in Stuttgart, Createch in Mumbai, Screen Alliance Wales education events, UCAS and Skillset network events. Jason is an accomplished Film Editor with IMDB credits. Throughout his teaching he has been involved in numerous collaborative projects such as Combat Medics for Sky and ‘The Machine’ for Red & Black films. Jason’s technical expertise is in editing, compositing, and 3D animation software, although has a working knowledge of all areas of Visual Effects and Film Production.