AVE 348 - Animation Story Telling at Gobelins in the heart of Paris

Prerequisites, instructor consent required. Dodge students only. This is an 18-day intensive travel course centered around a Visual Storytelling summer program for international students at the world renowned Gobelins Animation School in central Paris. The first four days are an immersive educational experience in Parisian architecture and art history and the second two weeks are dedicated to the intensive summer workshop at Gobelins that has been created and designed exclusively for Chapman students. For the first week we will visit iconic Parisian destinations including The Louvre, The Eiffel Tower, Arc De Triomphe, Notre Dame, Musee de Orsay, Musee de l’Orangerie, Versailles Palace, The Pompidou Center, as well optional suggestions, and offerings. Gobelins is widely regarded as the world’s leading animation school. Founded over fifty years ago it has maintained an impeccable reputation with a number one ranking in the world in 2023 by the Animation Career Review. The Gobelins summer course objective is to create and pitch an idea for short form story driven animated content. Instruction and presentations on story analysis, script writing, pitch preparation, visual development, story development and supplemental life drawing classes are mixed with group critiques and one-on-one tutoring. The course concludes with all participants presenting a pitch and receiving feedback from a jury of French instructors. Letter grade. (Offered summer session.) 3 credits