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.
