Gobelins

Gobelins, l'école de l'image, is a school of visual communication operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris. It offers both basic and professional training in multimedia (web design, interactive projects), photography, graphic arts, industrial graphics (traditional and digital printing), video and animation (hand-drawn, digital and 3D). The animation department was founded over 30 years ago to prepare artists for the needs of the emerging French animation film industry. Working professionals, taking time out from their busy schedules in studios and production companies, teach nearly 90% of the courses. Numerous Gobelins graduates of the animation course currently work in major studios around the world and are prized for their creative and technical excellence as well as their professional level. The Annecy International Animation Festival, held June 11-16, 2007, is the number one international competitive festival. For over 45 years the town has been showing off the very best in the art during six days of animated festivities. Annecy is one of the high points of studies at Gobelins. For more than 20 years, the school's animation students have created curtain-raisers for this worldwide gathering.