What is an Animation Foundation course?
The Animation Foundation offered at Atelier de Sèvres is a course designed to prepare students for the competitive entrance exams for the major Animation schools.
Whether public or private – depending on the institution – an Animation Foundation offers a range of specialised courses as well as exam conditions that are essential for preparing for the competitive exams. Catherine Totems, head of the animation foundation and animation degree course at Atelier de Sèvres, tells us more about the Animation Foundation.
What is a foundation course?
A foundation course is a higher education course that students can join after high school to prepare for the entrance exams to different schools.
An Animation Foundation, whether public or private, like that at Atelier de Sèvres, allows you to target your knowledge and skills and to strengthen them to optimise your chances of passing the entrance exams, written and oral, at major Animation Schools.
“An animation foundation is one year of workshops and classes to prepare for the competitive exams for graduate animation schools. It focuses on learning the basics of drawing (observation-perspective and life drawing), cinematographic vocabulary, movement, the creation of characters and sets, the approach of the notion of style and different animation techniques, whether traditional or digital." —Catherine Totems
The admissions criteria for the major schools are based mainly on the quality of the training chosen by the student, and the number of places may seem very low compared to the number of candidates applying. This is why the choice of your Animation Foundation is very important.
The Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres
Atelier de Sèvres, through the courses it offers, enables a solid preparation for the written and oral tests for admission to the most prestigious schools in France and abroad.
The Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres offers a year of solid training during which you will learn to develop your creativity, your general artistic knowledge as well as your means of expression and your visual acuity.
Atelier de Sèvres: a comprehensive range of artistic teaching
Thanks to specialised teaching provided by Animation professionals, in addition to classes related to artistic knowledge and observational and expressive drawing, the private Animation Foundation course at Atelier de Sèvres trains its students to be prepared for the competetive exams for entrance into the top animation schools, such as Gobelins, Rubika, EMCA (Angoulême) and Georges Méliès.
The Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres prepares dozens of students every year for the best animation schools thanks to a varied and complete range of classes ranging from observation design to computer graphics, including illustration, character and set design, and animation techniques.
The Animation Foundation offers continuous preparation for the entrance exams
Throughout the year, the Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres, based in Paris, welcomes Animation professionals from all over the world for workshops and conferences designed to shed light on the industry and also develop the students’ creativity.
Over the course of the year, each student on the Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres is put to the test through mock exams in the presence of a judging panel in exam conditions, so that they can be better prepared for the reality of the competitive exams.
"The aim of this year at Atelier de Sèvres is for each student to create a portfolio adapted to the schools they are aiming for and to provide them with guidance in preparing for the entrance exams of the major animation schools," says Catherine Totems.
Find out more about the admission requirements to enrol on the Animation Foundation at Atelier de Sèvres. The top animation schools are waiting for you!
