Master’s Degree of Art Director in Video Game Design
Certified level 7 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)
Today's video game industry is essentially made up of rather modest production studios which develop their own video games. Developing your own video game is paramount to convince investors or the French Video Game Fund (FAJV) to release future funding. It is also the opportunity to showcase to the game publishers and the studios your skills and ability to oversee a project.
The objectives of the program are:
- To design and develop a video game.
- To acquire the related know-hows required for your future career.
- To have the opportunity to experience the reality of the after-publishing industry.
- And most of all, to get a first experience as a student to develop, publish, and market a video game.
Pascal LUBAN, Game Designer and Creative Director (Ubisoft, Activision, Sony, DICE) is in charge of reviewing and validating the program's syllabus.
Possible status, pace: You can apply to this Master's Degree as a graduate student, as part of your continuous education or with a work-study program (apprenticeships or vocational training schemes). Indicative pace: one week spent in school for every two weeks spent working in a company. 1120 hours of training. This program is APEL compatible.
Duration of the course: Two years
Career Prospects: After graduating, your multidisciplinary skill set will be an asset to join a development studio and to work efficiently as part of a team.
As an Art Director, you will be able to take charge of the whole project, from the analysis of the client's needs, to the execution and the implementation of the working plan. You are accountable for the compliance and quality of the product. The art director in video game design's role is of a strategic, organisational and managerial nature. Depending on the organisation where you will be working, you will be in charge of all or parts of the following areas of work:
- Analysing a client's request and defining strategic recommandations
- Drawing up a proposal
- Designing and executing the project
- Managing a team
- Competitve intelligence, monitoring the market and the latest artistic and technological trends.
- Financial management of the project
Depending on your specialisation, you could also take part to the following activities: 3D character and set designs, character animation, game design, data integration/scripting into the game's real-time engine, etc.
Certifications
Dual degree:
This program grants access to the title of Art Director in Graphic Design, certified at level 7 (former level 1) by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP) pursuant to the ministerial decree of May 17, 2018 published in the Official Journal on May 24, 2018.
Recognised as an International Master's Degree by the FEDE (Federation for EDucation in Europe) and IDELart-culture.
An INGO, the FEDE is holding the participatory status with the Council of Europe. It is a European network of higher education and vocational education institutions that share a common project of high standards, quality and ambition. The FEDE network aims at improving the comprehensibility of the diplomas issued by the schools and fosters student mobility and student exchanges between schools.
Graduation is subjected to the completion and validation of 120 ECTS credits (60 credits per year).
Students enrolled in the Master's Degree are eligible to apply to bilateral student exchange programs.
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