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The students from Nantes tried their hand at creating their own digital double. A highly complex technique both in its final composition and in the use of tools for its manufacture.

Discover the short films of our students in the CG animation and FX cycle, selected and rewarded through many world festivals during november 2021.

Congratulations to the film I am a Pebble which, during its year of competition through international festivals, won a festival award labeled “Academy Awards Qualifying”.

Congratulations to the two films I am a Pebble and The Source of the Mountains, which in their year of competition through international festivals, won “Academy Awards Qualifying” festivals.

Discover the short films of our students in the CG animation and FX cycle, selected and rewarded through many world festivals during october 2021.

Since 1990, the Cartoon Forum has been the essential meeting place for European animation series professionals, designed to stimulate the production and distribution of European animated content for television and new platforms. ESMA has presented three projects for the 2021 edition. Our students, supported by their teachers, came to pitch their film project in front of professionals.

In theaters since August, the animated feature film Pil from the studio TAT Prod is enjoying great success after those recorded by The Jungle Aces (2017), which had recorded 2.75 million admissions worldwide and $10.2 million in revenue and Terra Willy, Planet Unknown (2019). Many ESMA alumni worked on Pil alongside Julien Fournet, the director. Three of them spoke to us about their experience.

Discover the short films of our students in the CG animation and FX cycle, selected and rewarded through many world festivals during september 2021.

Anaïs Blancquart, a fourth year student in CG Animation & FX Master Degree at ESMA in Toulouse, tells us about her internship at TAT Productions and in particular her participation in the Pil project, the studio’s third feature film.

A look back at the 2021 jury for the CG Animation and FX Master Degree. A special year because the Lyon campus presented its first class. A total of 26 films were presented, made by 192 students.

For a few months now, they have been pursuing their solo adventures since graduation. Philippe Nurdin is a freelance lighting artist for the Framestore studio and Yann Orhon has worked for several studios and has decided to open his own!

Discover the short films of our students in the CG animation and FX cycle, selected and rewarded through many world festivals during july & august 2021.