6 Jun 2025
IADT
10 (Level 9)
DL130
15 weeks - 1 evening online per week
€1,100
Learn practical skills in managing digital animation productions, focusing on 2D animation, with some 3D and VFX with CFA at IADT. Developed with Irish industry partners, this course includes a live production plan, allowing students to apply their knowledge in a real-world setting.
This course will provide learners with a command of the practical management of industry standard digital animation productions, primarily 2D animation but also 3D and VFX.
The course has been developed with industry partners in Ireland and the state agency with responsibility for skills development for the screen sector in Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland.
Each student will complete a live production plan as part of this course. They will have an opportunity to apply the skills they have learned on the course in a real world context.
This course presents you with an opportunity to gain and develop practical production skills specifically for the animation industry, to keep pace with the ever-changing technology and practices and its use in animation production.
You will be able to incorporate your skills into the real world as live productions, which is an integral part of the course.
You will achieve your learning outcomes through practical work ranging from full team productions to individual exercises.
This is a single module certificate.
Classes take place online on Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on:
Professional pathways exist in the audio-visual, web and screen industries. Graduates go onto animation production houses, online content providers, the broadcast media, advertisement agencies, production facilities, company in house production facilities, state and civil society bodies and indeed any group involved in the creation and distribution of animated content.
This course is suitable for students who have an undergraduate qualification of 2nd Class Honours or higher at Honours Degree level.
Applicants without a Level 8 qualification may be considered provided they can demonstrate Honours Degree equivalence which can be verified through the RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) process.
One reference must support your application.
Fees for 2025/2026 are €1,100.
Details of fee subsidies for 2025/2026 will be announced here soon.
“This course has opened a new career avenue in which I now have the foundational knowledge and confidence to thrive. Leon Elliott’s wealth of experience and guest lectures from the industry, combined with his pragmatic outlook (and keen wit) made for a relaxed learning environment even during the most intense classes. I now have a far better understanding of the animation industry and process, and practical job hunting advice to action. Coupled with IADT’s community-driven attitude and the myriad opportunities therein, have made taking this course a career highlight which I would highly recommend to anyone interested.”
Aoife Doyle
2025 graduate
