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Concept Art Illustration Training

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a complete 3-year course after a preparatory year, combining theoretical and practical learning.
As an Illustrator, the Illustration Concept Art Professional Cycle will give you the keys to creating worlds in different areas of entertainment, from Video Games to Animated Film and Comics.

  • Period

    1 year, full-time, classroom-based

  • HOURS OF LESSONS/YEAR

    800 hours of teaching

  • assessment

    Continuous assessment, evaluation of projects and knowledge

  • certificate evaluation

    Workplace situations
    Assessment of knowledge and practical case studies

  • Internship

    6 weeks minimum between 2nd and 3rd year

  • Prerequisite

    Possible transfer: Level 5 qualification or equivalent in applied arts or narrative drawing
    - Study of academic record
    - Entrance test and portfolio assessment
    - Motivational interview

Year 3

Professional Illustration Concept Art Cycle

Let your artistic skills shine.

This final year will plunge you into illustration projects and short concepts (writing, comics, traditional, digital or 3D illustration) that will call on the full extent of your talent.

Imagine, design and reinvent unique worlds in which you can express your full creative identity.

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

  • 98% Certification success rate (2022)

  • 75% Job entry rate at 6 months (2022)

  • 99% Rate of submission for certification (2022)

What does the final year involve?

The final stretch to make your dreams come true.

Let your passion and talent do the talking.

The final year of the Illustration Concept Art Professional Cycle is devoted to developing your professional project using the skills you have rigorously acquired.

You’ll develop your interpersonal skills and your professional stance so that you can present your project with panache in front of a panel of professionals.

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Our lessons

Your objectives

  • Propose and defend a personal creative universe
  • Promote your work by creating a website
  • Adopt a professional stance
  • Apply mastery of the creative and production process and in professional relations.
  • Enter the professional world through the end-of-studies project and the portfolio and/or demo reel.

Internship

Your future career is waiting for you!

Because there's no better way to learn a trade than to practise it, a minimum 6-week work placement is compulsory between 2nd and/or 3rd year.

This is an opportunity to put the knowledge you have acquired into practice, get hands-on experience, build your network and position yourself in the job market.

Validation of the Illustration Concept Art Professional Certification

The professional certification is the result of rigorous work which will enable you to validate 2 blocks of common skills and an optional block

  • Designing a graphic creation project
  • Produce illustrations (Illustration option)
  • Or create a concept art project (Concept art option)
  • Promoting your work as a graphic designer and illustrator

A new application for registration on the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP) for the “Dessinateur Illustrateur” title is currently being examined by France Compétences.

The teaching and assessment methods can be adapted to compensate for any disability, in compliance with the RNCP reference framework.

The teaching and assessment methods may be adapted to compensate for any disability, in accordance with the RNCP reference framework.


The achievements
of students

Creative excellence is their leitmotiv

Discover all the projects

Any other questions?

Please contact the Campus Education Manager for further information.

The curriculum

Illustration Concept Art

A year's training in preparation for certification