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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The short film Mésozoïque Alternatif, released in 2021, will be shown throughout the summer at Dinopédia, the largest animated dinosaur park in France, in La Grand-Combe.

Representatives from Cube Creative and Xilam came to meet students from Montpellier in the 4th year of the CG Animation and FX Master Degree, while students from other campuses were able to follow the conference via streaming.