PAN101 - Budgeting for Animation Productions

Subject Title
Budgeting for Animation Productions

Subject Description

If you?re interested in animation and want to develop your skills for a production manager or producer role, this microcredential will give you a strategic advantage. It?s designed to bridge the business and creative worlds of animation, outlining all the steps involved in developing a production budget. 

You?ll learn how to develop, modify and maintain a budget for 2D, 3D and alternative productions using cloud-based spreadsheets and best practices. In addition, you?ll have the tools to assess scripts and their feasibility from a financial perspective. And in your final assignment, you?ll create an accurate budget to forecast the costs of a production.

This microcredential was developed in collaboration with Smiley Guy Studios.

This microcredential provides the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, modify, maintain and meet the budget of an animated production. The lessons will help you understand the full pipeline of an animated project, including details surrounding human resources, contracts and budget implications.

Credit Status
A microcredential is a short course designed to help you upskill, reskill and boost new skills development. Seneca’s career- and profession-based microcredentials provide focused learning that add value to your existing education and enhance your employability. You will learn in-demand skills and knowledge and benefit from flexible options including different delivery modes, durations and start times.

This microcredential is issued in the form of a digital badge. Data embedded in the badge identifies the institution that issued it, along with the competencies, evidence and criteria that was required to earn it. Earners can display their badges on social media sites, electronic portfolios and resumés.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

Essential Employability Skills

    •  Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken and visual form that fulfils the purpose and meets the needs of the audience.

    •  Respond to written, spoken, or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication.

    •  Execute mathematical operations accurately.

    •  Apply a systematic approach to solve problems.

    •  Use a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.

    •  Locate, select, organize, and document information using appropriate technology and information systems.

    •  Analyze, evaluate, and apply relevant information from a variety of sources.

    •  Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects.

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