New start-ups driven by animation are emerging at a fast pace. With a business and animation double degree you will combine business knowledge with hands-on experience in animated filmmaking, visual effects, game development and the visual arts. This combined degree opens up a wide range of creative and business careers.  You will graduate not only with advanced technical and creative skills, but also with highly developed business knowledge.

This course will allow you to tailor your learning to the industry areas of most interest to you and broaden your skill set making you stand out to employers, or give you the abilities to start your own creative enterprise.

Real-world learning

This course provides a solid grounding in the fundamental concepts, practices and history of animation on which to build your own innovative practice. You will be encouraged to experiment with a range of animation styles and techniques while producing your own animations, graphics and visual effects. Studies on industry workflows, tools, processes and skills will equip you with a strong understanding of current industry practices - from concept development to timelines and finished works. In your final year your work will be showcased to industry professionals in a graduate exhibition.

Throughout the course, you can work on real-world projects or develop an individual practice. You will tailor your learning to the part of the industry most interesting to you.

QUT graduates are employed as animators, concept artists, visual effects artists, game artists and designers across a range of industries and wide diversity of employers including animation studios and traditional film production houses, computer games companies, visual effects and post-production companies, advertising and design agencies, and information visualisation and real-time studios.

Our graduates find employment in the many Brisbane-based animation companies, or throughout Australia and across the globe. Several are award-winning storytellers, successfully producing animated short films that screen at festivals globally.

A double degree with business will broaden your skill set and make you stand out to employers, or give you the abilities to start your own creative enterprise.

Professional recognition

Students may be eligible for membership to a number of professional bodies depending on choice of major and unit selection in their business degree. Details on professional recognition can be found under the individual majors of the Bachelor of Business (BS05).