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CG Animation & FX course

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a complete 5-year state course. Combining theoretical and practical learning, by the end of the course you'll be an expert in the design and production of 3D animated films.

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  • Period

    1 year, full-time, classroom-based

  • 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 Lyon, Montpellier and Bordeaux campuses

Year 1

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.

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

What are you waiting for to find your vocation?

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

  • 100% Success rate (2023)

  • 92% Overall employment integration rate at 6 months (2021)

  • 97% Overall training satisfaction rate (2022)

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We have the technology.

As well as focusing on general culture and the arts, our preparatory year is geared towards artistic practice.

Observational drawing, illustration, storyboarding, colour, sculpture and more. The different techniques of perspective, proportion and volume will hold no secrets for you.

Through our complementary approach to professional and technical teaching, everything is done to stimulate and free 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 in the best possible conditions.

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Our teachings

  • Visual Arts

    Discovering history to encourage students to carry out research and make personal discoveries in order to develop their curiosity.

  • Colours and textures

    Colour theory, colour and language, chromatic research, material research, light and shade, study of different materials, use of geometric shapes..

  • 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 and pitching....

  • Drawing practice

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

  • English

    Develop artistic vocabulary and consolidate syntactic foundations through 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

  • Professional Cycle
    3D Animation & Special Effects

    Year 2

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  • Professional Cycle
    Video Games

    Year 1

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  • Professional Cycle
    Illustration Concept Art

    Year 1

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The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv

Any other questions?

For further information, please contact the campus education officers.

The curriculum

3D Animation & Special Effects

A preparatory year for the RNCP Level 7 qualification (equivalent to Bac+5)