Graduate Certificate - Game Art and Animation (GAA)

Seneca Polytechnic - Seneca at York Campus

The Game Art and Animation (GAA) eight-month graduate certificate program is designed to turn talented artists into AAA game asset modellers. This unique program will have students creating and animating environments, characters and other assets within a 3D environment.

Through this program students will learn modelling, lighting, texturing, animation, scene staging, art direction and production management. Their learning will be further advanced by using industry-relevant techniques taught by professors with years of industry experience. With high-end computer hardware and software, students will learn to use tools used to develop game art and incorporate it into real-time environments.

Throughout this program, students will develop the following skills:

• Modelling
• Animation
• Texturing
• Design  

When students graduate from this program, these are the types of career options that they can explore:

• Modeller
• Texture artist
• Prop artist
• Lighting artist
• Animator
• Level builder
• Level designer

Students may also decide to pursue a role in production management as they will learn how a production pipeline works within AAA game studios.