As artificial intelligence disrupts and threatens the creative professions, ESMA is one of the first animation schools to integrate these new tools into its teaching. Its goal is to train professionals capable of combining artistic sensitivity, technical rigor, and an understanding of the innovations that are redefining the sector.
Equipping students with the means to understand and exploit AI
In its 3D animation training courses, ESMA integrates and introduces its students to the use of artificial intelligence: automation of secondary movements, assisted previewing, texture generation, and sequence analysis to optimize narrative rhythm. These uses do not replace the artist's hand, but accompany it, amplify it, and make it freer.
As highlighted in the Cahier des ICC #1 published by the Lab des Écoles Créatives, in which ESMA participates: "Artificial intelligence does not produce meaning by itself, but it can be mobilized in narrative processes where it interacts with humans. »
Thinking about AI with industry professionals
Far from being a technological gadget, the integration of AI is the subject of in-depth and thoughtful consideration within the school. The Lab des Écoles Créatives, a joint body of ESMA, CinéCréatis, ETPA, Pivaut, IFFDEC and the Salette and Marsan colleges, published in 2024 the first issue of the Cahiers des ICC – a journal dedicated to contemporary creative issues. The inaugural theme? The impact of AI on artistic processes.
This work also ties in with the Animation Development Innovation Meetings (RADI), where experts such as Marc Petit (Epic Games, Autodesk) come to share their vision of the future of AI-assisted animation with students.
Exchanges with these high-level practitioners allow students to gain a realistic and critical vision of their future professional environment.
Training to innovate, without giving up storytelling
By focusing on AI, ESMA is not seeking to dehumanize animation, but rather to enrich creative processes. The goal remains the same: to train visual storytellers capable of evoking emotion and building a world while conveying an idea.
With this in mind, ESMA has taken a clear position: to train creators capable of exploiting AI without becoming dependent on it. By questioning its limits, and above all, by continuing to tell stories that touch, challenge, or amaze.
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