ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS ANIMATION 2D 3D JEU VIDEO

Description : Manages the realization of a video game from conception to its arrival in the store.

Personal qualities : charisma, multi-disciplined, availability.

Professional skills : up-to-the-minute technical knowledge, builds relationships easily, management qualities.

Description : Oversees a game’s coherence, efficiency and rhythm, writes dialogues in collaboration with other game designers.

Personal qualities : a sense of narration and anticipation.

Professional skills : literary and graphic skills.

Description : ecides a game’s graphic direction and oversees its consistency. Directs graphic designers.

Personal qualities : Charisma, an artistic sense.

Professional skills : graphic know-how, mastery of software.

Description : Chooses technologies, assures the interaction between developers and graphic designers.

Personal qualities : Adaptability, cleverness, technological curiosity.

Professional skills : Graphic and computer skills.

Description : Defines and manages complete animation projects, coordinates and moves the project forward.

Personal qualities : Capacities of organization, artistic sensitivity to animated images.

Professional skills : Perfect mastery of 2D (Flash…) and 3D (Maya…) software.

Description : Conceive and create maps, levels, rhythms of difficulty, etc.

Personal qualities : Inventivity, strictness, a good relational sense.

Professional skills : Mastery of graphic tools plus 2D and 3D animation.

Description : Tests games in post-production to detect anomalies and suggest solutions.

Personal qualities : A sense of detail, perfectionism.

Professional skills : A true video game player - semi-professional or professional. A winner of game tournaments.

Description : The storyboarder is in charge of directing the scenario via colored vignettes which serve as a reference during production.

Personal qualities : An overall vision, a sense of narration.

Professional skills : Drawing skills

Description : The 2D designer is responsable for elaborating the visual style and establishing the graphic chart which serves as reference for conceiving and creating all the film’s elements : decors, objects, characters …

Personal qualities : Imagination, overall vision.

Professional skills : Drawing skills, mastery of graphic design software.

Description : The modelmaker shapes the actual images, objects and decorative elements. For animated elements, he elaborates models in collaboration with the 3D animator to avoid dysfunctioning when the animation is created.

Personal qualities : Rigor, a sense of detail.

Professional skills : Mastery of 3D software.

Description : The Layout graphic designer works to integrate different elements and make them coherent and esthetic. He puts decors in place, works animation, and manages different camera placements.

Personal qualities : An overall vision, rigor.

Professional skills : Mastery of 3D software.

Description : The 3D animator’s work goes from direct animation to touching up « captured » motions. Besides animating characters, he animates elements of decor and manages crowds and effects. He also is in charge of skeletons and « skinning » on animated models.

Personal qualities : A sense of detail

Professional skills : Mastery of 3D and animation software.

Description : Compositing consists of assembling and integrating the different layers which render the image. Finalized plans are mounted end-to-end to form a coherent film.

Personal qualities : Overall vision, a sense of narration and detail.

Professional skills : Animation software and video integration.

Description : The director oversees the entire project. He defines the style, the story and the ending. He can work on advertising clips, studio clips or on purely artistic, independent projects.

Personal qualities : Charisma, strong motivation.

Professional skills : Drawing skills, animation, mastery of software, capacity to keep within a budget.