Animation courses can help you learn character design, storyboarding, 2D and 3D animation techniques, and visual storytelling. You can build skills in timing, movement, and creating engaging narratives that resonate with audiences. Many courses introduce tools like Adobe After Effects, Blender, and Toon Boom Harmony, that support bringing your animated projects to life and enhancing your creative workflow.

Skills you'll gain: User Interface (UI), User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Unity Engine, UI Components, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction, Usability, Virtual Reality, Interactive Design, Virtual Environment, Video Game Development, Mobile Development, Interaction Design, Animation and Game Design, Design Strategies, Computer Displays
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of London
Skills you'll gain: Virtual Reality, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Unity Engine, Video Game Development, 3D Assets, Animation and Game Design, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Virtual Environment, Computer Graphics, Game Design, Interactive Design, Prototyping, Interaction Design, Storyboarding, User Interface (UI), Human Computer Interaction, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Animations, Computer Graphic Techniques, Application Design
★ 4.7 (2.1K) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months
Rice University
Skills you'll gain: Event-Driven Programming, Application Development, Interactive Design, UI Components, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Motion Graphics, Video Game Development, Animation and Game Design, Programming Principles, Computer Graphics, Python Programming, Game Design, Program Development, Computer Programming, Development Environment
★ 4.8 (3.3K) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: iOS Development, Apple iOS, Swift Programming, Mobile Development, Animation and Game Design, Game Design, Video Game Development, Animations, User Interface (UI), UI Components
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Network Performance Management, Network Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning, JSON, Video Game Development, Game Design, Network Protocols, Debugging, Secure Coding, Servers, Computer Networking, Server Side, API Design, Animation and Game Design, Authentications, General Networking, Program Development, Communication Systems, Real Time Data
Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, Color Theory, Version Control, Typography, HTML and CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), GitHub, Git (Version Control System), Web Design, Web Design and Development, Web Development, Software Versioning, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Front-End Web Development, AI Integrations, Application Deployment, Image Quality, Web Development Tools, User Interface (UI) Design
★ 4.7 (3.7K) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Design, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), File Systems, Video Game Development, Software Design Patterns, Local Area Networks, File I/O, Game Design, Computer Programming, Scripting, Software Architecture, Animation and Game Design, Programming Principles, Maintainability, Scripting Languages, Code Reusability, Data Persistence, Other Programming Languages, Graphic Design, Design and Product
Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

Rice University
Skills you'll gain: Computational Thinking, Event-Driven Programming, Algorithms, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Programming Principles, Application Development, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Data Structures, Theoretical Computer Science, Probability, Video Game Development, Bioinformatics, Interactive Design, Animation and Game Design, Python Programming, Data Analysis, Program Development, UI Components, Computer Programming
★ 4.8 (4.1K) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: User Interface (UI), UI Components, Unity Engine, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, User Interface (UI) Design, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Human Computer Interaction, Usability, Animation and Game Design, Virtual Reality, Interactive Design, Video Game Development, Virtual Environment, Scalability, Mobile Development, Game Design, Layout Design, UI/UX Strategy, Interaction Design, C# (Programming Language)
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Michigan State University
Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Animations, 3D Modeling, Storyboarding, Color Theory, Animation and Game Design, 3D Assets, Video Game Development, Game Design, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Computer Graphics, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Design Elements And Principles, Conceptual Design, Graphics Software, Photo Editing, Computer Graphic Techniques, Graphical Tools, Design
★ 4.5 (436) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Packt
Skills you'll gain: Unity Engine, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Animation and Game Design, Game Design, Augmented Reality, Animations, 3D Assets, Virtual Reality, Application Deployment, UI Components, User Interface (UI), Video Game Development, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Code Reusability, Devops Tools, C# (Programming Language), DevOps, Artificial Intelligence, CI/CD, Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months
Michigan State University
Skills you'll gain: Game Design, Unity Engine, Video Game Development, Peer Review, Cross Platform Development, Animation and Game Design, User Interface (UI) Design, User Interface (UI), C# (Programming Language), UI Components, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Animations, Scripting, Digital Publishing, Creativity
★ 4.7 (534) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks