Advanced College Diploma - Animation - 3D

The Animation – 3D advanced diploma is Humber’s three-year animation program, covering the full production pipeline from drawing fundamentals to a completed graduating film.

Training starts where good animation always starts — life drawing, gesture, anatomy and the twelve principles of animation — before moving into 3D: modelling and digital sculpting, character and environment design, rigging and character setup, keyframe animation and acting for animation, texturing and shading, lighting and rendering, effects and simulation, editing and post-production, and storyboarding and previsualisation. The final year is a produced short film made under studio-style milestone review.

The drawing foundation is why three-year animation graduates outperform software-only training. Timing, weight and performance are drawing skills expressed through a computer, and studios can tell the difference immediately in a reel.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The North campus in Etobicoke is its main site, running technology, engineering, health science, business and skilled trades programs in purpose-built labs and shops rather than lecture halls, with three intakes a year and the deepest employer network in the Greater Toronto Area.

Its field maps to CIP 10.0304 (Animation, interactive technology and video graphics). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Humber publishes a PGWP-eligible program list with CIP codes; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.