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GOBELINS, l’école de l’image

GOBELINS: still and animated images

Gobelins is one of the top French schools specialising in applied arts, print and digital media and has been training professionals for nearly 50 years:

• Photography (since 1963)
• Graphic communication and printing (since 1969)
• Animation film making (since 1975)
• Video and broadcast technology (since 1984)
• Interactive and digital communication (multimedia) (since

1991) Courses can be studied full time, or part-time while working as an apprentice inside a company. There are also adult training courses for working professionals.

Student body and faculty

• Over 700 students including 390 apprentices.
• 1 200 trainees in professional training courses.
• 90 % of graduates find a job within 6 months
• 45 permanent teachers
• 400 visiting professionals to teach courses

Our assets

• National and international recognition
• The support of the professional sectors

(companies, federations, unions)

• Highly professional administration team,

qualified teaching staff (both permanent and visiting professional experts)

• First class equipment (e.g.: 4-colour press,

photo development equipment etc.)

• Highly developed IT resources : 840

computers

• High-end technology in use in all

deparments

An international dimension

• 14 partners (Germany, England, the USA, Denmark, Hungary):

London College of Communication for graphic communication and printing, Calarts in California and Filmakademie in Germany for animated film, to name but a few. Educational trips, student exchanges.

• International summer school: Animation Film Making.
• Master classes in Animation Film Making in Asia.
• European course ‘Animation sans frontières’ (Animation

Without Borders) : Gobelins, Filmakademie in Germany, MOME in Hungary, Animation Workshop in Denmark.

• Exhibitions, trade shows abroad.

Project-based teaching

• The courses have 3 dimensions: creative skills, technical skills

and professional skills.

• Group work develops individual and team work skills.
• Projects of professional quality produced to order: short films

for the opening ceremony of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, interactive marketing and communication tools, design of visual identities etc.

Specificities of interactive projects

• Project development for specific professional sector and

users (schools, hospitals, companies, art institutions…)

• Projects produced in collaboration with an expert of the

target sector to define context, standards, uses

• Production teams seek functional but innovative design

and techniques

• Content enhancement by artistic flair and creativity
• Ultimate goal : added value

On the red carpet in Hollywood

• In 2009, the Gobelins student animation film OKTAPODI

nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animation Short.

Pursuing quality and excellence: the crucial role

• f schools as crucibles of emerging talent