Center of Excellence

LISAA School of Animation & Video Games in Paris – L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués – is a private, higher education institution recognized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications. Since 2001, LISAA has been training creators in the fields of 2D & 3D animation, video games, and special effects. The school is regularly rated among the Top 10 of France’s animation and video games schools and within the world’s Top 25. All programs are designed to balance a traditional creative approach with the use of digital tools and techniques that apply to each field.

Founded in June 2003 by Antoine Durieu, Piktura is an institute of excellence that welcomes more than 250 students each year. Piktura prepares students to be immediately operational in the creative industry. In 15 years, 585 alumni have found employment opportunities in animation, video game, audiovisual and digital communication companies.

Depuis 35 ans, 3iS forme aux métiers créatifs. D’abord spécialisé dans l’univers du Cinéma et de l’audiovisuel, le groupe s’est diversifié pour couvrir l’ensemble des industries créatives : son, spectacle vivant, jeu vidéo, cinéma d’animation, effets spéciaux ou encore acting. Cette transversalité est une des forces du groupe, ce qui a permis de développer au fil des promotions une réelle expertise dans l’échange inter-filière, et ce afin de renforcer l’employabilité de nos apprenants. En effet, l’insertion professionnelle est au cœur des ambitions de 3iS, grâce aux liens étroits entretenus avec les entreprises des industries culturelles mais également par les dispositifs d’apprentissage valorisés sur de nombreuses formations. L’école, créée en 1988 en région parisienne, s’est développée au fil des années en région, d’abord sur Bordeaux en 2016, puis sur Lyon, Nantes et Avignon. Véritable entreprise familiale, c’est de père en fille que l’excellence pédagogique se transmet.

For more than fifty years, the Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, animation, fashion, visual communication and management.

The CSC’s course in animation cinema, established in 2001 in agreement with the Piedmont Region and based in Turin, is an important reference point in Italy for young people who see animation as their means of expression and their artistic and professional future. The school’s goal is to cultivate their talent to train artists and technicians with knowledge and understanding of the process of creating and making animated films, equipped with professional artistic and technical skills in the main areas of production. Special emphasis is placed on animation as a medium of artistic expression and research.

The International School of Comics, founded by the eclectic cartoonist Dino Caterini (General Director of all Comics branches), was established in 1979 and has carried out a great deal of activity, both socially and didactically, offering courses ranging across the figurative, graphic, digital and literary arts. Its commitment in the social and cultural sphere is constant, as is its support for non-profit associations, in order to create an international education network. Over the years, it has become a true Academy of visual, graphic, digital, musical and literary arts.

Founded in 1980, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, with campus in Milan and in Rome, is the largest private art academy in Italy. Since 1981 NABA is legally recognised by the Higher Education in Art and Music system (AFAM, Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale), regulated by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR). The NABA Media Design and New Technologies Area’s didactic approach, with its BAs in Film and Animation and in Creative Technologies, the MA in Creative Media Production and the Academic Master in Screenwriting for Series, is aimed to expand knowledge and the most advanced media and creative technology-based methods to create complex and contemporary authorial and research projects as well as grow professionals able to deal with the increasingly powerful, widespread, differentiated technologies in the productive practice.

Our 2D Animation course aims to train, through a 3-year course, junior professionals in the field of Animation. Our students not only have the opportunity to specialize as paperless and cut-out 2D animators, but also to develop experience in all phases of the processing of a 2D animation project. The International School of Comics provides the basis for introducing students to the world of work with a 360-degree knowledge of all project development procedures and more. In fact, in our educational path, we deal with all the processing phases linked to not only creative but also commercial development, giving students the opportunity to create their own personal project starting from direction and storytelling and to follow the project in the subsequent production and video post-production, gaining experience in a wide range of roles, including storyboarding, character concept development, special effects development and more, preparing pupils to develop their own artistic skills and ideas and to tackle different situations and roles within the entire creative process.