Training
3D Animation & VFX

Learn 3D Animation with our 5-year 3D Animation Training Program in France. Master every stage of 3D animated film production and kickstart your career in animation.

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Training 100% in English

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Duration

1 year, full-time, classroom-based
Hours of lessons/year

+750 hours of teaching
assessment

Assessment of projects and knowledge (continuous assessment)
Final assessment of the end-of-year project and oral presentation
prerequisite

Baccalauréat or equivalent level 4 qualification
. Courses in English: minimum level B2 and non-French speaker
Language

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

Year 1

Preparatory year

Shape the future of Entertainment.

Start your journey with a solid foundation in the basics and fundamentals. Our preparatory year allows you to experiment with all aspects of the applied and plastic arts.
From 3D Animation Trainings to Video Game Trainings and Concept Art Illustration, discover the exciting career paths that await you after completing these courses.

What are you waiting for to find your passion?

At ESMA we take
success seriously.

1st School in the world in the category ‘Excellence in 3D animation production’
(*The Rookies 2024 competition)
100% Success rate (2023)
79% Overall employment integration rate at 6 months (2023)

What does this preparatory year include?

You have the passion
We have the 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 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.

Entertainment Prep :
English version

ESMA offers its most motivated international students the opportunity to enroll in Our 3D animation Prep Course in English at its campuses in Lyon, Bordeaux, and Montpellier.

This preparatory year, which combines linguistic and artistic learning, covers the same ground as the French version, while including cultural exchanges for mutual enrichment.

It prepares students for advanced 3D Animation Training , delivered entirely in English. This is the perfect foundation to learn 3D animation and launch a successful career in the industry.

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Objectives

Enrich their general and artistic culture
Develop essential skills for 3D Animation through drawing practice.
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 (Delivered in English)

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