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Preparatory year Entertainment

A gateway between a baccalauréat and training for careers in 3D Animation & Special Effects, Video Games and Concept Art Illustration, the Entertainment Prep course is designed for those who want to work in the entertainment industry.

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  • Location

    Bordeaux, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, Toulouse

  • Period

    1 year full-time classroom training

  • Hours of lessons/year

    800 hours of teaching

  • assessment

    Continuous assessment
    Assessment of projects and knowledge
    Oral

  • prerequisite

    Bac (all subjects) or equivalent level 4 qualification
    Examination of academic record and interview

  • Language

    Available in French at all ESMA campuses
    Available in English at the Bordeaux, Lyon and Montpellier campuses

Preparatory year Entertainment

Shape the future of Entertainment.

With a solid grounding in the basics and fundamentals, our preparatory year gives you the chance to experiment with all aspects of the applied and plastic arts.

From 3D Animation and Special Effects to Video Games and Concept Art Illustration, come and discover the diversity of the professions involved.

What are you waiting for to find your vocation?

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We teach technique.

As well as focusing on general culture and the arts, our preparatory year is devoted to artistic practice. Observational drawing, illustration, storyboarding, colour, sculpture and more. The different techniques of perspective, proportion and volume will hold no secrets for you.

With our complementary approach to professional and technical teaching, everything is done to stimulate and give free rein to your creativity.

By the end of this preparatory year, our students will have built up the perfect toolbox for creating their own worlds and embarking on a course in 3D Animation or Video Games in the best possible conditions.

Become the professionals of tomorrow

Our teachings

  • Visual Arts

    Discovery of history to encourage students to carry out research and personal discovery and to develop their curiosity.

  • Graphic and plastic experimentation

    To expose students to the diversity of visual arts practices and develop their awareness and conceptualisation of the artistic process.

  • Communication and expression techniques

    Both orally and in writing, students learn how to construct coherent speeches in order to defend their projects later on, through role-playing, theatre, pitch....

  • Drawing practice

    • Observation, intention and narrative drawing
    • Anatomy and movement
    • Analytical and technical drawing

  • English

    Develop artistic vocabulary and consolidate syntactic foundations with a study of semantic fields, conversations and presentations linked to the world of art.

  • Specific workshops

    • Image sequencing
    • Photography
    • Graphic Design
    • Volume, DTP

Your objectives

  • Enrich their general and artistic culture
  • Develop your practice and your creative universe
  • Acquire the technical and creative foundations through drawing practice
  • Refine your critical eye and analytical skills
  • Develop a methodology for work, research and creation
  • Give life to personal graphic and visual worlds
  • Demonstrate a sufficient level of French language and culture to function in everyday situations (course in English)

Further studies

The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv

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