Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Animation Department of the National Film School
The Animation Department of The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Film School) was founded in region of Turin at 2001. The objective of the 3-year course is to train creators, artists and professionals who possess a general knowledge and understanding of the animation film development and production process. Who have artistic and technical skills in the main reproduction and production areas of the animation film for different media.
EMCA - École des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation
The EMCA was founded in 1999 by the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie d’Angoulême. The goal of the training is to allow students to develop their creativity whilst acquiring skills which will enable them to find employemnet when they leave the school. The three years long course offers the knowledge of the traditional animation techniques and the latest technical development of filmmaking.
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Institute of Animation Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction
The Institute of Animation is dedicated to the education of upcoming animated filmmakers, CG artists and tech- nical directors.The animation programme at Filmakade- mie is a 4 year course. During the two first years of basic training students are taught overall skills necessary for working in the film industry. Third and fourth year are all about actual filmmaking - learning by doing. Students from all different kinds of departments and fields work together in teams and they are free to choose the topic they want to work on for their projects and to tell the story they want.
www.filmakademie.de // www.animationinstitute.de
Gobelins, l’école de l’image, Paris, France
The three year programme is designed to enable students to work with new methods and technologies while still enhancing their classical animation skills, including those valuable skills for all animators- acting, timing and observation. Allow the students to attain a professional level of skills in order to join the professional world of animation.
HFF- Konrad Wolf Film and Television University
The Animation Department at HFF wants to train multi- skilled animation artists who are able to creatively develop their own story and control production process of the project as a part of creative team using traditional analogue and digital techniques. The graduates are able to work not only in the animation industry but also in related industries, requiring the skills of animators as VFX, games and multimedia.
Hochshule Luzern Art and Design
The animation students of HSLU have the opportunity to experiment and learn about a range of animation and camera techniques. The teachers encourage the students to develop their own artistic film language and to acquire the professional knowledge needed for their subsequent career. The Animation course is complemented by a wide range of theoretical classes related to the history and aesthetics of animated film.
KASK - Hogeschool Gent - Animation Department
The Animation departement was founded by Raoul Servais – well known internationally. During the last 30 years, the „tools” havechanged, as well as the general „image” for this studium. However, the vision of Raoul Servais himself has been respected in every way: filmmaker education that respects the self fulfilling and creative/technical method of working which should result in an artistic work, free from any compromise.
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre
The animation department of La Cambre provides a high level of artistic education, which results in the development of artistic and and personal sensitivity in students while at the same time practicing specific animation techniques. The school aims to train animators able to integrate professional world as well to develop their artistic singularity. Their education should result in helping the students to build through their own knowledge, their own style.
La Poudriére - Animation Film School
La Poudrière offers a two-year training course in directing animated fiml and is open both to French and foreign students who already have technical training or some practical experience in animation. The main goal of the scool is to train professionals capable of making films, either on their own or as part of a team.
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
For over 130 years, MOME has played influential role in Hungarian academic art education. The professional education of animation has been ongoing since 1980, and offers degrees on BA and MA levels.
The modular programs consist of practical tasks that build upon one another, and giving for the students a comprehensive knowledge of all the technical and creative stages of film production.
National Film and Television School
The National Film and Television School is the UK’s national centre of excellence for postgraduate education. Practice and more practice is the key to creative and technical mastery and at the NFTS students learn by making films and television programmes. As a result, when students graduate they will not only have professional skills in their own field but also a good understanding of the other key roles involved in bringing a new film or television programme to the screen.
Royal College of Art
The emphasis of the Animation Department is the de- velopment of auteur–artist–filmmakers with a relation- ship to the industry. Our department is very much about practising animation within a visually sophisticated, in- novative and multi-disciplinary art and design context, which includes and demands developing skills and ex- pertise.
University of Wales Newport
Skillset Scren Academy
Located between Bristol and Cardiff in the southwest region of the UK, the programme benefits from very impressive links with all the studios, large and small, including major companies such as Aardman and Calon. The main philosophy of the programme is, that students should graduate as filmmakers rather than animators. They should see themselves as creative individuals who make meaningful statements through their work, and who stretch the boundaries of what animation is and how it is perceived.
www.newport.ac.uk // www.screenacademywales.org
Supinfocom - Animation School
Supinfocom is a school where students learn how to create digital content of excellenc. The aims of education are: to instill a passion of beautiful images and a taste for narration and the creation of emotions. To encourage the development of new creative energy and teamwork. To train high-level computer graphic and digital directors, capable of understanding those disciplines and using them in a wide range of application.
The Animation Workshop
The Animation Workshop is a 20 year-old animation film school located in Viborg, Denmark. It is Denmark’s leading animation institution wich offers BA degrees at Character Animation and at CG Artist programmes.. The classical principles of animation in the mediums of hand-drawn 2D, flash and 3D on MAYA are the focus of the program of the Character Animation. CG Artist programme exploring the work methods of a CG production from start to finish, from concept design and storyboard through all aspects of the Maya 3D pipeline.
Arts Academy - Turku University of Applied Sciences
The aim of the animation training is to provide anima- tors and animation directors with a wide scale of ex- pertise. After four years’ training period students know the whole production process of animated film in tradi- tional puppet animation and drawing animation.