Preparatory Year in Digital Arts (non-ACS)

Are you still hesitating between Animation and Video Games? Your drawing skills are not yet perfect? The preparatory year is made for you!
The preparatory year in Digital Arts is an intensive 450-hour course designed to introduce students to the world of animation and video games. It will allow you to acquire a traditional artistic training and to develop technical skills specific to Digital Arts.
It also aims to bring its students up to speed, create a portfolio, a personal project and prepare for competitive exams.

Objectives of the training

Intensive short course – Teaching languages: French/English – Montreal

We are committed to training the creative people of tomorrow.

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Enrich

your general and artistic culture

Promote

teamwork and interaction

Discover

the fields of animation and video games

Explore

your study project

Acquire

the tools and techniques of artistic creation

Build up

your application + portfolio

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Boo les humains

Projet Boardgame Prépa

Les Mystères de Stonebridge

Projet Boardgame Prépa

Celfipiade

Projet Boardgame Prépa

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Training details (non-ACS)

There are two main areas of instruction in your preparatory year:
Drawing and traditional artistic practices: Drawing a Character, introduction to sculpture and live models, introduction to animation etc…
The discovery and initiation to the mastery of technical and creative software: Introduction to Adobe Suite, programming, introduction to Unity, discovering the board game and
3D graphics etc…
As well as the accompaniment on the creation of a personal project, of your portfolio and preparation for competitions.

During your course, you will also complete two team projects : a 2D platform game and a board game.

At the end of your training, you will be able to choose the training that suits you best

Hours of lessons: 450 hours
Cost of training: $9250 CAD/year

Entrance exam

”Production of a digital animation film NTL.1J” program (2D/3D Animation) or ”Artistic and technical production of video games” program (Tech-Art) or Other trainings

Training

The versatility of this training will allow you to learn and discover essential artistic techniques.

Introduction to Character Design

Introduction to Animation

Set design and staging

Observation drawing

Textures & materials

Theory and practice of color

Introduction to matte painting

Introduction to 2D rendering techniques

General artistic culture of film and video games

2D/3D digital tools

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator…)

Maya Unreal/Unity

Boardgame

Introduction to Live model

Introduction to sound design

Training

The versatility of this training will allow you to learn and discover essential artistic techniques.

Introduction to Character Design

Introduction to Animation

Set design and staging

Observation drawing

Textures & materials

Theory and practice of color

Introduction to matte painting

Introduction to 2D rendering techniques

General artistic culture of film and video games

2D/3D digital tools

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator…)

Maya Unreal/Unity

Boardgame

Introduction to Live model

Introduction to sound design

Entrance exam

”Production of a digital animation film NTL.1J” program (2D/3D Animation) or ”Artistic and technical production of video games” program (Tech-Art) or Other trainings

Your future teachers

Our teachers are active professionals who conveys to you skills from their domain of expertise. This allows us, in other words, to assure you as a future graduate, to be at the cutting edge of technology required by the industry.

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Admission requirements

You are passionate, you have artistic creations and you wish to learn the fundamentals of animation and video games, the preparatory year is the training that suits you.
To enter this program, you need a high school diploma if you are from Quebec and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent if you are an international candidate.

To enter, you will have to pass an entrance exam consisting of a general culture test and a test specialized in animation and video games, a drawing test, an imagination test, a mathematics and logic test and an oral interview.

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