With the increasing recognition of vocational education, vocational skills competition has attracted much attention. In or- der to better integrate professional competitions and professional courses, the modes of “promoting learning by competition”,“pro- moting teaching by competition”,“integration of competition and teaching”are an effective way to improve the teaching quality of professional courses in higher vocational colleges. This paper proposes a practical teaching path for three dimensional animation courses, which takes skills competition as the starting point, curriculum teaching as the basis, precision training as the means, stu- dents as the center and training platform as the support.