Your path at ARTFX, from the baccalaureate to the studio doors

The course at ARTFX ends with creating an end-of-studies project – a short film or video game – as a team and in similar conditions to those of a studio, under the supervision of our executive producer, teachers and professional contributors from the school.
Each student can choose to join a team within which to write and carry out a project from A to Z or work for one or more teams as a “specialist.”
Both types of profiles have their place at ARTFX and in the studios, who are looking for excellent professionals and veritable artist-writers…. and potential future directors!
The end-of-studies projects, screened before a jury of professionals, are then sent to international festivals.
They are a valuable means for our students to be identified by recruiters, complementing their demo tape, which is crafted during the 4th year.

More than 70 % of the ARTFX alumni work abroad and contribute to the renown of our school at an international level.
Likewise, the students’ work is regularly nominated in the most important international festivals dedicated to digital arts (more than 1,000 nominations to date).
You too can use your talent to travel!
To this end, you will benefit from a reinforcement of English in the 1st year, and you can join an international class, in which 100% of the lessons are given in English. In addition, you will be immersed in a multicultural environment: in 2020, ARTFX hosted students from over 60 different nationalities.

ARTFX places great importance on the teaching and practice of business English.If your level allows it, you can join a 100% English-speaking class as of your 1st year, in which you will be mixed with students from different nationalities (27 in 2019). Otherwise, you will benefit from courses in French with a reinforcement of English before progressively benefiting from lessons taught in English as you move forward through your courses.

ARTFX maintains close ties with studios around the world through its alumni, management team and contributors.
This is to know and anticipate their needs, identify the technologies that are in vogue among professionals and update the content of its courses each year accordingly.
In addition, a jobdating day is organised each year, after the end-of-studies jury.
In this way, each student can present themselves to the various studios invited to the school’s premises (around thirty studios in 2021).

In 2021, ARTFX had 800 working alumni, of which 70% internationally.
The most senior members have already spent more than 15 years in the fields of special effects, animation and video games and now hold key positions in the world’s largest studios.
Not a single major production is released today without the name of alumni in the credits!
This network is open to ARTFX students and remains accessible during their entire careers.
A means to open the doors of the biggest studios to complete an internship or find your first job!

Studios are regularly invited to the school to present their working methods, share their experience, and discuss trends, emerging technologies, and our professions’ future with the students.
To this end, in recent years, ARTFX has physically or virtually hosted representatives from French and international studios such as Illumination Mac Guff, Buff, Mikros, Ubisoft, SideFX, Weta, Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Double Negative (DNEG), etc.
The school is also a member of several school networks and professional associations that work to bring schools and studios closer together through regional events.