Digital Creativity Foundation programme covers a little bit of everything from the worlds of creative and digital design. Immerse yourself in the creative arts community while discovering your passion for game development, post-production and visual effects for film, animation, or graphic, motion, web or mobile design. With background knowledge in each discipline, this course will prepare you to apply to any of our exciting degree programmes.

Actors aren’t the only movie stars, you know. Explosions, scenery, and strange creatures are integral to a great blockbuster, where you, dear animator, can steal the show. The award-winning faculty will help you develop your animation and visual effects skills on an immersive level and get to grips with modeling, rendering, lighting, and technical direction. To prepare you for life as a professional, your studies will culminate with your involvement in an amazing, industry-level film where you can win awards and prime your portfolio for a real-world studio

The games industry is one of the fastest growing entertainment fields in the world and is incredibly lucrative. Step ahead of your competition and secure your position now. Start your journey in learning how to create interactive stories, digital illustrations, and art design for games. You’ll focus on the use of industry- standard software like Maya, 3dsMax, Photoshop, ZBrush, Unreal and Unity and collaborate on team projects to grow with your classmates. 

A Bachelor of Media Design specialising in Interactive Design prepares you for the technical demands of the web design and mobile development industries. Experiment with a variety of interactive and dynamic design theories and immerse yourself in fundamental digital design processes such as front-end web development, interactive programming, and content management systems.

A Bachelor of Media Design specialising in Graphic Design will teach you how to communicate using text, images, and form to make visual connections and craft ideas into meaningful interactions. By the end of your third year, you will have designed, constructed, and documented a body of work that represents your perspective as an emerging professional designer.

The field of motion graphics is constantly transforming and there are now endless career possibilities available to designers in the field. Specialise in Motion Design and we’ll teach you key technical skills such as 2D and 3D animation, visual effects, composition, image manipulation, and text choreography. By the end of your degree, you’ll have evidence of your experience working on a variety of client briefs. Start building your new life today!

Whether you’re just starting or you’ve got a few years’ experience behind you, this course will help you reach those all-important career goals. The postgraduate design programme has been designed to encourage passionate people to develop their creative thinking, even if they don’t already have formal qualifications. Progress on to a Master of Design, or simply walk away with your completed Postgraduate Certificate in Design in 15 weeks.

“The Media Design Graduate School empowers you to take steps that will change the world. Mix with the brightest, most passionate people. Develop systematical creative thinking and build design skills in an innovative fast-paced fun environment.

This 30-week full-time programme is for those with an undergraduate degree who wish to develop and update their strengths across the digital design spectrum. Develop analytical design thinking and build creative technological skills in an innovative environment.”

Think of this programme as the bridge between undergraduate and postgraduate study. In this course you’ll refine your craft and the opportunity to focus on your interests, based on your own research project in 3D Animation and Visual Effects, Interactive and Web Design, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, or Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR).

Embark on a rewarding career in the future-facing field of creative tech thanks to our Bachelor of Software Engineering in Artificial Intelligence. You’ll become a highly sought-after developer with a deep understanding of algorithms and techniques, plus the ability to master the fundamentals of machine learning. Developed in partnership with IBM, this qualification is the first of its kind in New Zealand. 

As a highly sought-after games programmer, you’ll collaborate with artists to create scenes defying the laws of physics. Learn game coding in a variety of languages, including C++, which will help you succeed and make games. Media Design School is the only school in New Zealand that has partnered with Sony’s Academic Development Programme, allowing you to develop for the PlayStation platform. 

Digital transformation is integrating digital technologies in a business or organization. A digital transformation strategy can fundamentally change how a company operates, delivers value to customers, and grows in an ever-increasing competitive global environment.

Graduates of this online program will have gained a high-level understanding of the purpose and function of current and emerging technologies that lead to digital transformation. They will also be able to evaluate an organization’s capacity and readiness for digital change and design and implement innovative digital solutions.

This self-directed, online course is perfect for busy professionals looking to develop their skill base and gain an introduction to the fundamentals of Data Science.

In just six weeks, you’ll learn to identify and propose solutions to problems in organisational contexts, and explore techniques, concepts and common tools used by data scientists to gather and analyse data.

Building on the skills gained in Data Science Essentials 1, this flexible online course examines the various processes used to identify patterns in collected data and how to construct data sets to solve distinct data science problems.

In just six weeks, you’ll learn to develop data into different models, evaluate these models and use them to create stories. You’ll learn to apply this knowledge to other domains, deploy the models produced and refine them based on feedback, and explore and rationalise ethical and privacy issues related to data science.