Training
Video Games

Develop your artistic and technical skills with a comprehensive 4-year course after the preparatory year, combining theoretical and practical learning to make you an expert in video game design and production.

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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

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)
81% Overall job entry rate at 6 months (2022)
82% Rate of entry into the target occupation after 2 years (2021)

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 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.

Our complementary approach, combining professional and technical teaching, is designed 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 Video Games in the best possible conditions.

Discover the associated professions

Our teachings

Visual Arts

Discovering history to encourage students to carry out research and personal discovery and 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)