Course Description - Diploma of Animation and Visual Effects

  • 6192112: 3D Animation (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is a process of exploring lighting, materials, and texture using advanced techniques. In the course, students are introduced to innovative ways to produce texture files and tools for making various types of geometric shapes. Students in this course will be exposed to a wide range of painting techniques that can be used to create textures and lighting on different surfaces.


  • 99991061: [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enhance and enrich students’ skills with modern concepts of information technology, as well as skills in dealing with computers, digital devices, modern computer applications in practical life, the Internet, information security concepts, and data analysis. The student applies the concepts and skills he acquires using appropriate programs.


  • 6192111: Digital Video Editing [2 Credit Hours]

    The digital video editing course aims to provide the student with video editing skills such as digital montage, methods of editing videos, merging and fragmentation of different videos, the use of different effects between shots and scenes and adding subtitles.


  • 6191102: Digital Marketing Principles [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the types of marketing and advertising campaigns and the characteristics of each of them. The course alos aims to develop the students' ability to determine the required design standards suitable for the market


  • 6191105: 2D Animation [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, students design and draw different and multiple paintings and characters depicting and translating different situations and the general framework of selected stories or texts. The course aims to develop the students' ability to draw and transform texts into drawings. This course also aims to equip the students with the knowledge required to draw models from real life with a focus on quick drawing, line work and caricature.


  • 99991110: Entrepreneurship 1 [1 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the basic concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on equipping the students with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility and start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 6191209: Comic Books Design [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to familiarize the students with the concept of comic books and the different techniques used in converting written stories into illustrated stories. The course also emphasizes design overtones, character drawing and motion analysis.


  • 6192113: Digital Video Editing [2 Credit Hours]

    The digital video editing course aims to provide the student with video editing skills such as digital montage, methods of editing videos, merging and fragmentation of different videos, the use of different effects between shots and scenes and adding subtitles.


  • 99991112: Entrepreneurship 2 [2 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the main concepts in entrepreneurship and focuses on providing the student with the ability to write business plans, study their feasibility, start an entrepreneurial project.


  • 6191208: 3D Animation (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is an introduction to the arts of three-dimensional design. The course equips the students with the required knowledge of the different types of visual effects, their uses and ways to integrate real natural scenes with artificial scenes. The course also equips the students with the skills to make cinematic tricks on the footage, and modify the timeline.


  • 6192219: Interactive Graphics and Augmented Reality [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the students are introduced to the concept of interactive graphics and how to use animation to attract customers, create interactive graphics and use of animations in presentations.


  • 6192218: Photography and Film Making [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is a scientific introduction to the art of photography and filmmaking, whereby the student is acquainted with the academic foundations of the art of photography and filmmaking, including the process of analyzing the colors that make up objects in each of the areas of light and shadows and their various reflections.


  • 6192221: Graduation Project [2 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student chooses an idea which is to be implemented individually or within a group of two or three. Finally the project is presented for discussion and defense.


  • 6191103: Introduction to Animation [3 Credit Hours]

    This course focuses on mastering the basics and methods of design and the ability to employ different materials, and colors in the design of animation. The course also aims to develop the students' ability to use different drawing tools such as pencils and charcoals.


  • 99991031: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 6191101: Computer Design 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to provide the student with the skills of digital illustration. This is done by introducing the student to the concepts and techniques of designing technical graphics, publications, web design as well as television presentations


  • 6192114: Animation Applications [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the method of creating high-quality vector graphics that can be resized, reused, and adapted to fit cartoons, logos, games, and other interactive content, and apply them to animation programs


  • 6191104: Free Drawing [3 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student learns to draw different shapes using different devices. The course also aims to simulate the students to imitate reality and to hone their ability to estimate proportions.


  • 6192115: Visual Effects Industry [3 Credit Hours]


  • 6192217: Digital Video Editing [3 Credit Hours]

    The digital video editing course aims to provide the student with video editing skills such as digital montage, methods of editing videos, merging and fragmentation of different videos, the use of different effects between shots and scenes and adding subtitles.


  • 6192220: Field Traning [2 Credit Hours]

    In this course, the student attends various institutions related to his field of specialization and future work, such as: printing presses, radio stations, advertising design companies, newspapers and others. During this course, the student applies all the skills s/he learned and mastered in the field of graphics and multimedia.


  • 6191207: Animation of 2D characters [3 Credit Hours]

    The course gives the students a general introduction to motion design for two-dimensional drawing. In this course the student learns about the types of movement concepts for two-dimensional objects and shapes, and the temporal concept of shots during one scene. In addition to identifying the types of movement according to the personal location and different animation techniques for personalities and 2D objects.


  • 6191210: Information Technology And Multimedia [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the concept of multimedia and the applications of animation in multimedia and its uses.


  • 99991051: Physical Activity [1 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces the basic concepts of physical education, its objectives and its relationship to general education, defining the most important skills and basic principles of some group and individual games.


  • 99992061: English Language [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 99992011: Arabic & Islamic Thought [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to solidify the concept of Islamic culture, and to introduce students to sound cultural and intellectual concepts about the sources of Islam, the Islamic faith and its’ pillars, and the Islamic Shariah, which regulates all aspects of life: social, economic and political. It also clarifies the position of Islam on a number of contemporary intellectual issues, and introduces the most important challenges facing Islam and its’ culture.


  • 6192116: Advertisement Design [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce the students to the principles and strategies of advertisement design and in terms of form and content.


  • 99992013: Anti-corruption "Challenges and Solutions" [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the concept of corruption, its forms and definition as well as the role of civil society institutions and local bodies in combating corruption.


  • 6191206: Digital Image Processing [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces digital techniques in digital image processing and aims to acquaint the students with the softwares used for modifying images, colors and chromatic contrast.