Article about LISAA - June 2007

Lisaa (L'Institut Superieure des Arts Appliques) is a french school based in Paris, Rennes, Nantes and Strasbourg. This institut, recognized by the ministry of culture and communication, propose a big set of course:

* One foundation course for the big French school of arts like 'Les Gobelins'. You can follow it in each school of the institute.
* A 2-years course of stylization at Paris.
* A 2-years 2D animation, 3D animation or Video Games course at Paris. This course use TVPaint Animation for the 2D traditional lessons.
* A 2-years architecture course at Paris, Rennes and Nantes.
* A 2-years Web Designer and illustrator course in each school of the institute.

Visit the Lisaa Website at www.lisaa.com.

Between TVPaint Animation and Lisaa, it's like a nice love story that has been lasting for 3 years now. Renaud Jungmann, Lisaa's teachings director, chose TVPaint Animation when it was sold under the Mirage name in 2005 for its 2D animation courses. At this time, Lisaa was the very first school in France to accept the challenge. « I'd like to encourage the use of this tool in any part of a workflow (layout/background, anim test, animatics, visual editing...) but also to use as a tool to teach the 2D animation basics. Our animation lessons start on Mirage for the 2D and the 3D animation cursus since it has several objectives :

first to teach the fundamentals (rhythm, slow motion, keys and betweenings) and then students quickly jump into TVPaint Animation in order to start the animatics of their projects.

Based on the animatics, being quickly able to use a digital environment gives us a huge production capacity as well as the ability to modify the project quickly (which is essential for students who are learning how to tell a story). This step also allow to produce several reference documents which will be used during the rest of the production (for backgrounds, keys, color researches...).

Today TVPaint Animation is fully a part of our 2D and 3D animation department and we can see that the students from the video game department start having interest in it in order to prepare the cinematics of their projects » Renaud said.

This is with the same enthusiasm than TVPaint has been participating to the professional jury of Lisaa for its 2D and 3D animation students the last 3 years.

It is approximatively 50 projects which are screened during 2 days, allowing to discover some real talented young people. Constrained with very strict conditions of production (4 months to make an entire project from scratch, sometimes for one single student!), the students have to produced 2 projects during the second year of the formation. And results are amazing... Combining real storytelling skills and technical abilities, students from Lisaa have this special ability to be really versatile.

As a part of the events leading up to the graduation ceremony, TVPaint offers licenses to some of the young 2D animators who impressed the jury with their works, often combining scholar and personal works.

This is the way TVPaint chose to encourage and to help these students whose reality is then to struggle on the job market. Whatever the time it may take, these young pros now have the tool they need to keep practicing their animation technique and who knows maybe the result is a personal short movie that will be screened worldwide in animation festivals.

Kim said:

First I wanted to thank TVPaint for this license which will be very useful to me. It will allow me to start working with TVPaint immediately! I was already very happy to be graduated, also because my short movies have been selected for festivals, especially Maestro Cuisine which was one of the favorite project during the professional jury and in addition of all of that, the TVPaint license, what else to ask for?

Nathalie said:

Thank you for this very nice gift that you gave to me and to my teammates during the graduation events. I was not expecting it at all and honestly I almost passed out when our educational director, Renaud, handed us the box which contained the licenses!

Today I'm still looking for a job as a 2D animator. It's hard but I'm holding on because I do know what I want to do!

That's why these licenses are for us a symbol of trust from you and a strong encouragement.

Thank you again for that.