ANIMATED FILMMAKING PHOTOGRAPHY VIDEO GAME INTERACTIVE AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION MOTION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN PRINT AND DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

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1 ANIMATED FILMMAKING PHOTOGRAPHY VIDEO GAME INTERACTIVE AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION MOTION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN PRINT AND DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

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3 Véronique LABLE Director GOBELINS, l école de l image, is the pioneer school in digital communication and interactive design. For nearly 50 years, GOBELINS has trained the talents of tomorrow in the fields of photography, both interactive and graphic design, animated filmmaking, entertainment and immersive animations as well as the communication and graphic industries. Our philosophy is to support the freedom of the students to express their creativity! With the merging of images and media forms, our students explore new fields of creation and imagine new ways in which to implement them. Through learning how to master their fields, our students surpass the supposed technical limitations, manipulating the prospects they entail and push beyond the boundaries. As our pedagogy is linked with the professional realms, the talents we train are adapted to the requirements of the industry. Through exposure to client-based missions, students carry out projects recognised for their quality, often on the international level. We have the honour of having trained students who have been internationally recognised for their talents. Some of whom have been awarded with privileged awards such as: Prix jeunes talents SFR in photography Europrix Multimedia Awards in multimedia Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short Film for the student film : OKTAPODI. We encourage students to explore the world with an open, unique and visionary perspective! We are therefore dedicated to developing our international dimension, which will allow students to acquire the professional and multicultural skills necessary to work anywhere in the world. GOBELINS is forming a global and diverse network in the visual communication sector and supports academic exchanges. With a reputation of excellence in the world of character animation, we have designed an acclaimed Summer School programme in Paris and developed our Masterclass model in Asia and Africa. Reinvent the world, express your creativity. Join GOBELINS! 3

4 OUR FIELDS OF COMPETE GOBELINS: the freedom to express your talent! Animated Filmmaking Our Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking course has been world-recognised for its excellence in character animation and the high-level of professionalism of its students for 40 years. This course allows students to master both traditional and digital animation techniques (2D and 3D) following professional methods in animation studio conditions. The original aspect of our approach lies in our ability to enable our students to capture, from first year, each step of film design and production in order to progressively equip them with all the skills expected to be able to work on a long feature. Photography Our reputed Photographic department has dedicated itself for 50 years to train multi-skilled students in becoming professionals in image acquisition as well as in photographic printing and editing for the illustration, publishing, industrial and journalism sectors. Our courses enable students to acquire high-level creative and technical skills, taught in conjunction with experts from different practices to aid students in realising achievements of professional quality. Training is conducted in a variety of approachable and engaging formats: conventional lessons, conferences, core subjects as well as workshops covering themes such as publicity, food photography, fashion, beauty and architecture. Interactive design At the centre of the new technological challenges, our students learn to design new interactive services or products meeting social, urban, environmental, cultural requirements. They produce 2D or 3D content or implement technologies linked to the convergence of multimedia platforms, manage teams and steer complex projects. The school trains highly sought-after professionals, graphic designers and developers, who aim to meet the needs of new communication practices in terms of design, of graphic interface design and new ergonomic user interfaces. A VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF 700 STUDENTS Video Game 16 programmes The heart of branding is with the video game industry! Our Specialized Master s degree «Interactive Digital Experiences», conceived with the CNAM/ENJMIN is the first of its kind in France. The strength of this programme is that it prepares high-level engineers, graphic designers and IT specialists to become experts in the design and creation of games for mobiles, tablets, social networks, terminals and installations. Graphic industries From printed to web-based, our training in Graphic Industries responds to the new challenges of the digital revolution. GOBELINS is the only school to offer Post-16 professional apprenticeships in Graphic Industries and propose a path of studies from undergraduate to postgraduate level to master the whole of the graphics process. I entered GOBELINS more than 30 years ago, well before globalization, and yet already at the time, there were 6 different nationalities amongst the 12 students from our year! Kristof SERRAND, Head of Character Animation, DreamWorks Thanks to the GOBELINS/Calarts exchange programme I was very lucky to spend 6 months as student and director of an end of studies film within the school created by Walt Disney, in Los Angeles! I was also able to meet the recruiters of the majority of the American studios and was hired as training concept artist/ character designer at Pixar. At the end of this training course, I got employed at Pixar Studios. Louis THOMAS, Degree Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking - GOBELINS Freelance 4

5 NCE A pedagogy connected to professional realities GOBELINS is unique in its pedagogical approach, which integrates a triple dimension: creative, technical and professional. If creative and cultural education is very present in our pedagogy, it always fits into a professional context, enabling students to stretch their limits both creatively and technically and allowing them to be ahead of the requirements of the industry. Our programmes focus on innovative pedagogical project through: teamwork, workshops, project-based courses, tutoring and self-training with specialised resources, interdepartmental projects and collaboration, professional assignments commissioned by a client designed and developed to become a business tool, final projects presented in exhibitions, publications and international festivals. We maintain a strong relationship with the industry. Professionals participate in juries, advisory boards as well as numerous other meetings and events. They offer a high-level quality assurance at GOBELINS by guaranteeing the training corresponds to the needs of the different professional sectors. The school also maintains constant, productive ties with representative bodies and professional institutions. The many consultants and experts sent by companies to teach and advise on projects reinforce its strong link with the professional sector. Going to London with Movil App was probably one of the best decisions I could take to start my career. After a Bachelor in Sales Manager in Cross- Media, and two excellent years of work experience, I got offered a position at Razorfish, a great international agency in digital publicity. Pia BOQUIEN, Degree Cross Media Sales and Marketing Management GOBELINS % EXAM PASS RATE 86.1% employement rate after graduation After a training course in Communication and Graphic Industries, I had the opportunity to work at BJB Limited in London as a graphic designer print & Web for various jewellers, as part of my MovilApp training course. I have also freelanced since September This experience has proved invaluable in discovering other visual techniques and acquiring a better level of English as is required for my profession. Robin GILLET, degree Study and development of a graphic product - GOBELINS

6 GOBELINS is a vibrant community of 700 students coming from all around the world. GOBELINS Around the Upon completing his studies at GOBELINS, Pierre worked as an animator for several important studios in Europe, working on both feature fi lms and TV series. In 2008, he joined DreamWorks Animation Studio where he worked on Kung Fu Panda. In 2009, he won the prestigious Annie Award in Hollywood for the category Character Animation in a Television Production or Short Form. He was the character lead of the villain of Kung Fu Panda 2, and of North for Rise of the Guardians. He was nominated for an Annie Award in the Category «Best character animation in a feature production» for both movies in 2011 and He is a supervising animator since He is now working on Me and my Shadow. Pierre PERIFEL Degree Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking GOBELINS 2005 The school is committed to offering its students a genuine multi-cultural experience both inside and outside France. The school fosters an international environment by welcoming foreign students, developing internships programmes in foreign companies and organising student mobility and exchange programmes. Its open door policy ensures that visiting professionals from around the world will come to share their experience with the students. The location of GOBELINS, in the heart of Paris, just next to the Latin Quarter, permits our students to come into direct contact with Animation Sans Frontières, a lecture/workshop-based supplementary training programme designed to give European graduatelevel animation film and production students an understanding of the fine art and the business of getting an idea onto a screen. creative energies that are amongst the best of what France, Europe and the world have to offer. Whatever their mode of expression, our students can make the most of a cultural and artistic inspiring environment to nurture their talent. GOBELINS has been granted the Erasmus University Charter in Europe and is a member of the European Animation School Network funded by Media. The School has developed two European Programmes with prestigious European partners Universities and Schools with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Community. TransformatLab, an elite workshop-based training programme designed to give graduate-level creative media students from across Europe the chance to develop and pitch cross-platform ideas in an intensive development lab. 6

7 World GOBELINS, l école de l image A World-Wide Reputation The presence and success of GOBELINS student work in festivals and events around the world contribute to this international dimension by strengthening ties to foreign cultures and institutions, as well as distinguishing our students and teachers. GOBELINS students obtain internships in Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, USA. Today GOBELINS graduates from the animation course are present in French studios throughout the country such as Mac Guff, Moonscoop, and Millimages but also in major studios around the world, including DreamWorks, Disney, Pixar, Framestore, Electronic Arts and many more. Indeed, they are prized for their creative and technical excellence as well as their professional level. GOBELINS works in partnership with: California Institute of the Arts, USA Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany The Communication University of China Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary The Animation Workshop, Denmark 7

8 SUMMER SCHOOL GOBELINS International Summer School 2012 In order to share its expertise in animation with an international audience, GOBELINS organises each year in Paris a two-week International Summer School in Character Animation. Mainly designed for professionals and advanced students in animation, entirely in English, its aim is to enable participants from all around the world to gain a better understanding of what makes for successful character animation PARTICIPANTS COUNTRIES NATIONALITIES The programme delivers the best of GOBELINS know how through: Experience: GOBELINS finest applied research in character animation, presented by GOBELINS professors during morning master classes. Professionalisation: lectures and interventions from experts from the industry sharing their practical experience all along the programme. Practise: tailormade exercises given to the students by the lecturers for the afternoon workshops and reinforced by individual coaching. The GOBELINS Summer School completely surpassed my expectations. The staff were absolutely incredible. I was delighted to find that most of the content was completely new to me! Not only new, but exciting, practical and insightful. One of best things about the course was that by exposing us to a number of accomplished animators who have very contradictory views on work-flow, it challenged us to reassess our own assumptions about how to animate, and gave us new tools to help us find our own way of working. I highly recommend the GOBELINS Summer School to anyone who loves creating character animation, who is looking for inspiration, insight and a challenge! Daniel SNADDON, Animation Lead, Triggerfish Animation Studios Cape Town. GOBELINS International Summer School

9 MASTER CLASSES Building on its experience and success in professional training, GOBELINS shares its expertise by organising Master Classes abroad. From 3 days to 2 weeks, these Master Classes are made to measure for the needs of a local network and market and delivered in partnerships with local studios, animation schools, universities or animation festival. They have the same pedagogical focus as the International Summer School and are based both on lectures and practical workshops. GOBELINS delivers a series of Master Classes in Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore and South Africa. The techniques demonstrated in this course are built through experience. Experience that allows the student to learn through practice. That coupled with expert guidance means that you definitely leave better off than you started. I truly feel that I increased my knowledge of animation through this course. Ben WARD, Master Class 2012, Cape Town. 9

10 AWARD WINNING STUDENT WORK FROM G BELINS Animated Filmmaking In 2009, «OKTAPODI», an animation film produced and created by students at GOBELINS, was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) in the category of Best Animated Short Film in Hollywood. «Oktapodi» had already received numerous awards from some of the most prestigious animation festivals around the world: - SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Jury Award - SIGGRAPH Los Angeles 2008 Best of Show and Audience Prize - Hiroshima 2008 Special International Jury Prize - Annecy 2008 Canal+ Family Award - Anima Mundi Rio de Janeiro 2008 Best Student Film and Audience Prize - FICCI BAF 2008 India Best Student Animated Short Film - Imagina Monaco 2008 Best Animation Award. IN BETWEEN - Best Character Animation, Aniwow! 2012, International Student Animation Festival, China (Beijing) - Prix de la meilleure animation 2D, The Film Skillet Winter 2012/2013 Animation Contest RHAPSODIE POUR UN POT-AU-FEU - Best Original Animation Music, Aniwow!2012, International Student Animation Festival, China (Beijing) Interactive design The Europrix multimedia Awards gave the 2010 Best School of Multimedia Design Award to GOBELINS, for creativity in the design of the multimedia projects it has presented since the festival was first launched 7 years ago. Three projects by students from GOBELIN s Multimedia Design and Production programme also came away with a prize: the «UTI» project received the Award for best mobile application as well as the Best business potential Prize; the «YUMMI» project was nominated in the «mobile HIBOO, books to explore a collection of digital books for teenagers on the ipad. European Youth Award Photography In 2009 and 2010, a photo project by two GOBELINS students won the ADOBE Design Achievement Award in the student category at the Icograda World Design Congress held in Beijing, China. 10

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12 Paris CAMPUS Photography MOTION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Animated Filmmaking Interactive and digital media Communication Video Game 73, boulevard Saint-Marcel Paris FRANCE Tel: +33 (1) Noisy-LE-GRAND CAMPUS Print and Digital Media Production MOTION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN ZI Les richardets 11, rue du Ballon Noisy-le-Grand Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (1) Crédits photos : GOBELINS, l école de l image - Impression : France repro - Création_www.thalamus-ic.fr