We're proud of all our graduates and their achievements – big and small. Their personal stories are inspiring, make us reflect, and highlight the remarkable things that can be achieved with an education from UTS Animal Logic Academy.

Meet our successful graduates

 Hear more from some of our past students below and on our YouTube channel.

Nicole Goh

The experience I had in the studio environment at the Academy with regular review sessions, working with fantastic supervisors, and collaborating with talented artists is a true mirror of industry.

Nicole Goh
Senior Production Coordinator at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Singapore and Sydney

Ben Skinner

Some of the key differences from this degree and the last degree I’ve done is that it was much, much more hands on.

Ben Skinner
Founder of Magpai, Sydney

Jessica D'Ali

With the help of close mentors and industry professionals, I was able to leave the Academy and walk into my first job feeling confident that I was ready and knew what I was doing.

Jessica D'Ali
Performance Technical Director Supervisor at Netflix Animation Studios, Sydney

Philip Billones

What I loved about the Academy was working collaboratively on creative projects like the short film, but also on emerging visualisation technology projects.

Philip Billones
Model and Texture Artist at Framestore, Melbourne

Emma Cooney

If you want a way into the industry, if you want to make genuine connections with your peers and your mentors, this course is excellent for that.

Emma Cooney
Senior Lookdev TD at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Sydney

Portrait photo of Benjamin Read

My time at the Academy helped me to reinforce the skills I had previously learned, but the most important thing that helped me was how the Academy is run to simulate an actual studio environment.

Benjamin Read
Character Effects Artist / Animation Technical Assistant at Flying Bark Productions, Sydney

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Hi, my name is Matina Akes. I'm a recent graduate from the Animal Logic Academy.

Right now, I am packing my bags to go over to Montréal in Canada to work on a Disney project with Mill Film.

My involvement in the Academy was to be a concept artist, and then I also did some modelling. I pushed my skills in surfacing, which was a new thing for me coming to the Academy, but I really enjoyed it because I got to have creative freedom.

Probably the most challenging thing was coming into the Academy with no expectations. I didn't know that I was going to be pushed into other departments when there was less work in concept art. It really pushed me to learn something new, to collaborate with other students as well, who know another department a bit better than me, and then I could learn from that as well. So I think really pushing myself to learn something new was probably the hardest thing, but I think it was worth it in the end.

Being in the team environment, you're giving and receiving feedback all the time, so you've got to be ready to take criticism back to work, but also knowing that you're there to improve all the time.

I think if you want to push yourself and really experience something that's not the normal sort of school environment, it is more like industry. It is intense, but it is also really worth it.

[Visuals: Matina Akes speaks to camera in a well-lit room. Occasional cutaways show her working at a computer, sketching concept art, and interacting with fellow students in a collaborative studio environment. The UTS and Animal Logic Academy logos appear at the start and end of the video.]
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Transcript

Hi, my name is Martina Akes. I'm a recent graduate from the Animal Logic Academy.

Right now, I am packing my bags to go over to Montreal in Canada to work on a Disney project with Mill Film.

My involvement in the academy was to be a concept artist, and then I also did some modelling. I pushed my skills in surfacing, which was new for me coming to the academy, but I really enjoyed it because I got to have creative freedom.

Probably the most challenging thing was coming into the academy with no expectations. I didn't know that I was going to be pushed into other departments when there was less work in concept art, and it really pushed my skills to learn something new, to collaborate with other students who knew another department a bit better than me, and then I could learn from that as well.

So I think really pushing myself to learn something new was probably the hardest thing, but I think it was worth it in the end.

Being in the team environment, you're giving and receiving feedback all the time, so you've got to be ready to take criticism back to work, but also know that you're there to improve all the time.

I think if you want to push yourself and really experience something that's not the normal sort of school environment, it is more like industry. It is intense, but it is also really worth it.
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Transcript

Hi, my name is Martina Akes. I'm a recent graduate from the Animal Logic Academy.

Right now, I am packing my bags to go over to Montreal in Canada to work on a Disney project with Mill Film.

My involvement in the academy was as a concept artist, and then I also did some modelling. I pushed my skills in surfacing, which was new for me coming to the academy, but I really enjoyed it because I got to have creative freedom.

Probably the most challenging thing was coming into the academy with no expectations. I didn't know that I was going to be pushed into other departments when there was less work in concept art, and it really pushed my skills to learn something new, to collaborate with other students who knew another department a bit better than me, and then I could learn from that as well.

So I think really pushing myself to learn something new was probably the hardest thing, but I think it was worth it in the end.

Being in the team environment, you're giving and receiving feedback all the time, so you've got to be ready to take criticism back to work, but also know that you're there to improve all the time.

I think if you want to push yourself and really experience something that's not the normal sort of school environment, it is more like industry. It is intense, but it is also really worth it.
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Transcript

Hi, my name is Martina Akes. I'm a recent graduate from the Animal Logic Academy.

Right now, I am packing my bags to go over to Montreal in Canada to work on a Disney project with Mill Film.

My involvement in the academy was to be a concept artist, and then I also did some modelling. I pushed my skills in surfacing, which was a new thing for me coming to the academy, but I really enjoyed it because I got to have creative freedom.

Probably the most challenging thing was coming into the academy with no expectations. I didn't know that I was going to be pushed into other departments when there was less work in concept art, and it really pushed my skills to learn something new, to collaborate with other students as well who knew another department a bit better than me, and then I could learn from that as well. So I think really pushing myself to learn something new was probably the hardest thing, but I think it was worth it in the end.

Being in the team environment, you're giving and receiving feedback all the time, so you've got to be ready to take criticism back to work, but also knowing that you're there to improve all the time.

I think if you want to push yourself and really experience something that's not the normal sort of school environment, it is more like industry. It is intense, but it is also really worth it.
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Transcript

Hi, my name is Martina Akes. I'm a recent graduate from the Animal Logic Academy.

Right now, I am packing my bags to go over to Montréal in Canada to work on a Disney project with Mill Film.

My involvement in the academy was as a concept artist, and then I also did some modelling. I pushed my skills in surfacing, which was new for me coming to the academy, but I really enjoyed it because I got to have creative freedom.

Probably the most challenging thing was coming into the academy with no expectations. I didn't know that I was going to be pushed into other departments when there was less work in concept art, and it really pushed me to learn something new and to collaborate with other students who knew another department a bit better than me. I could learn from that as well, so I think really pushing myself to learn something new was probably the hardest thing, but I think it was worth it in the end.

Being in the team environment, you're giving and receiving feedback all the time, so you've got to be ready to take criticism back to your work, but also know that you're there to improve all the time.

I think if you want to push yourself and really experience something that's not the normal sort of school environment—it is more like industry. It is intense, but it is also really worth it.

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