Concept art

Admission with interview

Narrative drawing Prep

Optional year

Entrance examination

1st year Common part

Applied arts & Narrative drawing

2nd year concept artist

2 month Internship

3rd year Concept artist

3 month Internship

4th year Concept artist

3 month Internship

graduation jury

labour market

A Four-year degree course that includes compulsory internships in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years.

The final year takes place either in Nantes or in Montreal (Canada).

The concept art is a traditional and digital drawing discipline.

The aim is to create and design universes, and visual appearance, for video games, movies, 2D or 3D animation movies, board games. The concept artist imagines the characters, the objects, the sets, etc. on various appearances (colour or position) into 2D or 3D. He has to adapt himself to every universe.

The requirements for that training, which is unique in France, are a good knowledge of the drawing’s bases, anatomy, volumes, etc. and, of course, a huge blast of motivation.

COMPUTER HARDWARE :

  • – 1 room dedicated to the 2nd year’s students, equipped with 30 workstations and 30 Wacom Pro M tablets.
  • – Last generation professional softwares, a beamer and optical fiber.

Rooms are open 24 hours a day, all week long.

JOBS’ OPPORTUNITIES :

The jobs linked to concept art are numerous :

  • Concept Artist
  • Game designer
  • Character Designer
  • Illustrator
  • Digital painter
  • Sets designer
  • Objects and vehicles designer
  • Creatures designer

Here are some examples of the companies that recruit our students in France and everywhere else, for video games, 2D and 3D animation movies and film industry :

UBISOFT (France)  UBISOFT (Montréal – Québec), GAUMONT, DONTNOD,  EIDOS, DREAMWORKS, MAC GUFF, EDEN GAMES, etc.

The animation studios : TERMITES FACTORY , ANKAMA, XILAM, 2MINUTES, TF1, CARRIBARA, MIKCROS ANIMATION,TOUTENKARTOON etc.

Disciplines

Concept Art

Character design

Anatomy - Living model

Volumes-modeling

Objects and vehicles concept

Sets concept

Project management

Concept artist's professional methodology

Create a file of projects' development on a real case

2D-3D computer graphics