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ESMA in competition at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2025 with two short student films



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Short film selection for December 2024



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Harmony: A captivating visual symphony



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Graduation show 2022: the winners

Graduation show 2022: the winners

News . 13 Sep. 2022

During three intense days, the students of the class of 2022 in CG Animation & FX Master Degrees presented their films before an international panel of professionals at the end-of-studies jury. This year there were 27 films made by 210 students spread over our 4 campuses.

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Love, Death and Robots - Blur Studio

Love, Death and Robots – Blur Studio

Conférences . 02 Sep. 2022
Lyon

Jérôme Denjean and Monica Singh Haley, represented the American studio Blur during their visit to ESMA Lyon. They held a conference on the theme of the famous series Love, Death and Robots.

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First steps in life – Julie Chapelle et Aurélie Duret

First steps in life – Julie Chapelle et Aurélie Duret

News . 23 Aug. 2022

Julie Chapelle and Aurélie Duret both studied CG Animation & FX in Lyon. They flew to England, one at DNEG and the other at Framestore.

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Insects and organic shading

Insects and organic shading

School . 12 Aug. 2022
Nantes

Used to modeling an insect, the 2nd year students of the CG Animation & FX Master Degree program in Nantes faced this time a new exercise: create their own “bug”, in a natural environment, at a macroscopic scale. The challenge: to realize modeling and organic shading, with vegetation, for a macrophotographic rendering. Back on the exercise with the rendering of Titouan Helias, who accepted to detail his work around the Clades Khion.

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First steps in life - Enola Durand and Lisa Belair

First steps in life – Enola Durand and Lisa Belair

News . 09 Aug. 2022

Enola Durand and Lisa Belair both studied CG Animation & FX Master Degree in Toulouse. They joined the same studio, MPC, but not in the same country nor in the same position! One is a lighting artist and the other a CFX artist.

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First steps in the active life - the opening of the MilkyCo studio.

First steps in the active life – the opening of the MilkyCo studio.

News . 26 Jul. 2022

They are three, they are young and ambitious, they are the co-founders of MilkyCo studio.  Immediately after graduation they chose to create their own CG animation studio, a daring and audacious bet. Meet Pierre-Louis, Mathieu and Mathis.

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ESMA at the Festival du Film d'Animation d'Annecy

ESMA at the Festival du Film d’Animation d’Annecy

News . 21 Jul. 2022

ESMA participated in the new edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. An international event that allows all the professionals of the sector to meet for a few days.

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[Spotted] Our alumni in the credits of Thor: Love and Thunder

[Spotted] Our alumni in the credits of Thor: Love and Thunder

News . 15 Jul. 2022

The Nordic god and superhero Thor is back in theaters, five years after the last movie Ragnarök. A new Marvel blockbuster that will delight audiences this summer.

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First steps in working life - Lucie Laudrin and Martin Teillet

First steps in working life – Lucie Laudrin and Martin Teillet

News . 12 Jul. 2022

Just a year ago they were still students and finishing their graduation film. We find them a few months later, graduated and entered the working life. For us, Lucie Laudrin and Martin Teillet tell us about their entry into the professional world. One at Mikros in Canada and the other in Paris at Illumination Mac Guff.

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[Spotted] Our alumni in the credits of The Minions 2: The Rise of Gru

[Spotted] Our alumni in the credits of The Minions 2: The Rise of Gru

News . 06 Jul. 2022

The most famous yellow creatures in the world are back in the cinema! Seven years after the first opus entirely dedicated to them, the sequel to the adventures of the minions – and that of their master Gru – returns to the cinema for our greatest pleasure.

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Shorts films selections for june 2022

Shorts films selections for june 2022

News . 04 Jul. 2022

Discover the short films of our students in the CG animation and FX cycle, selected and rewarded through many world festivals during june 2022.

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Illumination MacGuff studio meets ESMA students

Illumination MacGuff studio meets ESMA students

Conférences . 29 Jun. 2022
Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Toulouse

Regular visitors to the various ESMA campuses, the Illumination MacGuff studio did not deviate from the rule this year by coming to meet our students and discover their final projects.

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