Year 2 - Video Game Professional Cycle

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

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Duration

1 year full-time classroom training
HOURS OF LESSONS/YEAR

+750 hours of teaching
assessment

Continuous assessment of knowledge and end-of-semester projects

Year 2

Video Game Professional Cycle

Year 2 of the Video Game Professional Cycle is all about consolidating students’ skills and developing their creative individuality.

By the end of the year, you’ll be multi-skilled and have a very clear idea of your strengths and your artistic and technical preferences, so you can make an informed choice about what to specialise in at the end of the course!

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 the second year involve?

You're unique, so is your artistic identity!

In the 2nd year, ESMA focuses on the development of the future artist’s identity, encouraging students to be constantly curious, to experiment with their personal universe and to build up professional assets (portfolio, assets, diorama, etc.).

Developing your graphic skills is a key factor in making a difference on the job market, and will also enable you to add real value to the video game industry in the future.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment?

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Objectives

Apply game design techniques
Identify user experience and user interface (UX/UI) issues
Define and implement the production stages of an interactive sequence (creation of assets, integration, programming) and a coherent artistic environment
Define and implement animation and Tech Art design techniques
Build a portfolio, demo reel or demoreel for internship applications in English and French
Define, plan, control and monitor a project
Analyse and evaluate the expectations of a specification

Our teachings

English

Develop students' comprehension and expression skills around video game presentation situations.
Building a path of empowerment and professionalisation

In this laboratory space, students are supported in the development of their individual qualities and begin to build up a portfolio of personal work.
Concept Art

Master all the digital graphic design tools needed to create Key Art, Character Design, Props Design, Environment Design, etc.
3D computer graphics

After a year of modelling objects, 3D computer graphics is now moving into the field of organic modelling and more complex objects.
Sculpt 3D

Learn how to design 3D characters, based on a sound knowledge of basic anatomy and using specialist software.
Rig Animation 3D

Learn 3D animation techniques and the principles of character animation (walking, running, jumping, dying, acting, etc.).
UX (UI, signes et feedbacks)

Encourage communication between the game and the player, giving maximum visual feedback with an ergonomic user interface design.
Game Design

Discover the theoretical structures, creative techniques and analysis tools for making video games.
Programmation Unreal Engine

Deepen your knowledge of algorithms and learn how to program a 3D game on Unreal.
Tech Art

Implementing assets in the game engine to guarantee playability and artistic quality in terms of staging, lighting and surfacing.
Video game projects

Students complete two short semester-long projects based on a subject of their choice.
Special weeks

Workshops on various themes, game jams, cultural conferences, exchanges with professionals and/or former students, seminars, etc.