Year 3 - 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

Ongoing assessment of individual projects and the group activity sequence
certificate evaluation

Professional role-playing as part of an overall project to create a video game
Internship

8 weeks minimum at the end of 3rd and/or 4th year

Year 3

Video Game Professional Cycle

Once you’ve mastered the key skills of the discipline and built up your own graphic signature, it’s time to intensify and professionalise your practice.

This 3rd year is dedicated to perfecting your skills and technical specialisation, with the opportunity to complete an internship.

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 third year involve?

Take the lead in your career
Become a video game expert

During this year of specialisation, you’ll broaden your range of skills in narrative design and software mastery.

Working alongside seasoned professionals and a highly qualified teaching team, you will be able to measure your progress in terms of the quality of production you are capable of offering.

Group projects, personal projects and the pre-production of your video game at the end of the year will also put your soft skills to the test.

Collaboration, organisation, teamwork and autonomy are the watchwords of Year 3.

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Objectives

Define the mechanisms that will immerse the player in a story
Design the narrative elements of a game
Define the visual rendering of the game and ensure the graphic coherence of the project
Implement the graphic elements of a game
Implement and guarantee high-quality gameplay
Implement and evaluate design techniques in Rig animation and Tech Art
Communicate in English in a professional context
Take decisions and initiatives
Prioritise
Organise and manage time
Work as part of a team and collaborate

Our teachings

Game Design

Coaching students on real-life issues around the game prototypes they create as a group.
Narrative Design

Build and develop the story that the player will experience in the game and give it substance to immerse the player in the world created.
English

Develop language skills to gain confidence in professional situations (research, presentations, exchanges with peers).
Creating a personal portfolio (Lab)

Build up a body of personal work in order to establish qualitative contact with industry through a portfolio, for example.
Programming Speciality

More in-depth programming in Unreal Engine, including learning how to create nodes for visual scripting, etc.
Art speciality
- 3D computer graphics, Sculpt 3D
- Artistic Direction
- Option Tech Art
Option Rig Animation 3D

Learn more about rig techniques, facial rigs, animation management and advanced animation blends to create more realistic animations.
Game creation projects

Experiment with the production pipeline as a group, design a mini game from A to Z as a team, with prototyping, R & D, vertical slice, etc.
Masterclass, ateliers softskill et insertion professionnelle

Lectures on the process of creating team game projects, etc.

Internship

Your future career is waiting for you!

Because there is no better way to learn a trade than to practise it, an 8-week work placement is compulsory at the end of 3rd and/or 4th year.

This is an opportunity to put the knowledge you have acquired into practice, gain practical experience, build up your network and position yourself in the job market.