30 years' experience in teaching creative professions
Recognised and acclaimed expertise
With the same passion and the same high standards since 1993, ESMA strives to provide its students with excellent training in an environment conducive to personal development.
Now with 7 major campuses in France and abroad, ESMA guarantees its students one of the highest levels of employability on the market when they graduate.
1stSchool in the world in the category ‘Excellence in 3D animation production’(*The Rookies 2024 competition)
4thBest Animation School in France (*Animation Career Review 2024)
7thBest Animation School in Europe (*Animation Career Review 2024)
Works selected in numerous festivals
Our VISION
Art and design require passion and high standards.
Creative excellence is our motto. What is yours?
For over 30 years, we have been deeply convinced that art and design have the power to transform the world. Every work of the mind has the power to shape new perspectives and inspire new representations of the world.
So we encourage our students to develop their graphic flair, hone their technical skills and nurture their critical minds.
We train future decision-makers who are capable of questioning the meaning of their creation, so that they can design the works of tomorrow that will shape the world.
Our Manifesto
We live in a world of images.
From our first scroll on social networks to our evening entertainment on the big (or small) screen, via posters on streets, signs, transport… we are in constant contact with artistic expressions.
From Guernica to rabbids, from the special effects of Star Wars to the courage of Nemo… the impact of an idea, a creation or a performance is global, lasting and fundamental. On our consciences, our behaviour, our desires, our lives.
Artistic expression has the real power to disturb reality, give pleasure, stimulate the imagination, spark debate and create shared horizons. More than politics, finance, engineering, philosophy… art transforms our vision of the world.
Working in the arts is a serious business, a bubbling mix of endless ideas and impeccable technical standards. Art is serious business.
And at ESMA, we’ve been convinced of this for 30 years.
It is with this conviction that we train our students with the highest standards and passion.
ART IS SERIOUS.
OUR VALUES
Doing better tomorrow
For all
Putting people at the heart of ESMA’s approach
Because success and talent are not a matter of origin or social class, our schools are places of diversity and equal opportunity open to all.
