SCHOOLS ARTFX – Montpellier, France ArtFX is a reference in France for the teaching of the picture synthesis and animation 3D, and the single school in Europe forming with the digital special effects. Whatever the speciality chosen, the students have access to the whole of the professional effects placed at their disposal to acquire a total knowledge of the line production. The course proceeds in four years, punctuated of workshops regular with, in particular, the professionals from the post-production studios. EMILE COHL – Lyon, France The school Emile-Cohl is an artistic private establishment of higher education recognized by the State, specifically devoted from the first year to four fields: the computer graphics-multimedia, the illustration, the cartoon and the animation drawing. Founded in 1984 by Philippe Rivière with the participation of Roland Andrieu, the school is today an institution recognized by the professional world. Teaching is exempted by the best specialists in the sector, living fruit of their talent and their knowledg, and eager to transmit and show. ESMA – Montpellier&Toulouse, France The professional cycle Animation 3D & digital special Effects of the ESMA forms in three years of the creators intended to occupy of the stations to responsibility in the world for the digital image. The shorts carried out in third year confront the students with the problems and the challenges of a production. All the steps are approached there. Each year, is shorts are selected and preceded in the greatest national and international festivals. GOBELINS – Paris, France Precursor in animation, the school Gobelins acquired an international repute today and adapts unceasingly to the evolutions of the animation profession, whose competences must be adaptable to any type of animation. The quality of the works completed by the students of the Gobelins is often rewarded. The animations shorts are preceded each year in famous international festivals. SUPINFOCOM – Valenciennes&Arles, France Created more than twenty years ago, with its pioneer spirit and its taste for the innovation and creation. Supinfocom forged a reputation for is universe of the formation for digital creation. Is shorts animation crossed the whole world and are projected in all the great international festivals. The school profits today recognition from the professional world and form each year the talents of tomorrow. HONG KONG DESIGN INSTITUTE – Hong Kong, China Design Institute Hong Kong (HKDI) is engaged to provide an education of quality, to build the system of knowledge and training, to cultivate the talents of design for creative industries. The ministry for the Communication Design and DIGITAL Media is a creative faculty, equipped with high equipment, in order to provide a complete program to their students, in design of publicity, animation, cartoon, effects visual, creative supports, digital music, photography, and edition. COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA – Nanjing, Chine Nanjing Communication University of (CUCN) is an independent four-year institute founded in 2004 by the Communication University of China in cooperation with Nanjing Meiya Educational Investment Co., in order to expand the brand, take advantage of the unversity’s high-quality educational resources, to meet China’s growing demand for application-oriented talents of the field of information&communication. The School was awarded in 2012 the best 50 Chinese Campus for environment satisfaction, in 2012 and 2013 Sina China’s top 10 brands of Independent Universities THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP – Viborg, Danemark The Animation Workshop is a formation attached to VIA University College which profits from an excellent university network and professional both in Denmark and in the world. The formation has as an ambition to train the students with animation but also with the scenarisation and the commercial dimension of the trade. The pedagogical team is international, which makes it possible for the students to discover multiple approaches of animation 2D and 3D, cartoon, scenarisation, but also in the universe of the video games. ESTIENNE – Paris, France L’École Estienne : école du livre et de la communication. En 2009, l’École Estienne a fêté ses 120 ans et continue d’allier innovation et tradition. Dédiée à l’origine à l’imprimerie, elle est devenue aussi école du design de communication et des métiers d’art du Livre. Pour former professionnels d’excellence, qu’ils soient imprimeurs, graphistes, designers ou éditeurs, pour conjuguer savoir-faire traditionnels et modernité, à toutes les époques, le souci constant de l’École a été de mettre à la disposition des professeurs et des étudiants, les technologies les plus modernes et les plus performantes, depuis l’introduction de la linotype en 1905 jusqu’aux logiciels d’animation en 3D aujourd’hui. ISART DIGITAL – Paris, France ISART DIGITAL, the school of the video game and animation 3D/FX, presents in Montreal, Paris and Niigata, offers a formations in alternation work-studies. The school is famous for its pedagogy original and innovating. The student projects gained more than 53 prizes (Unity Awards, Pixar Disney, Imagined Games Awards, Arte TV, SACD, TFOU…). The school proposes to its students the entreprenariat whose certain projects led to a marketing.