2024 3D Jury !

Last week the “3D Jury 2024” took place, an event during which we were able to unveil the new films of graduates of the 3D animation and visual effects cinema training at ESMA Montreal, on which they have worked for more than 6 months. It was also an opportunity to celebrate the end of their program with the presentation of their diplomas!

The creation of the shorts

To make these five films, the students, supervised by teachers, had to go through different stages:

• The creation of a scenario in Martin Cright’s course, then the selection of five final scenarios, those of Johanna Guinodeau, Juan Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Meyer Derique, Nadine Karkour and Antoine Demange
• Pre-production, in Christine Thibodeau’s class, with the creation of storyboards, settings and characters
• Production and post-production, with teachers Thomas Rousvoal, Serge Kponsou, Vincent Philippon, David Décoste, Anthony Cabula, Nicola Sterpone and Adrien Elmlih
• The partnership with the Musitechnic school, whose students produced the mixing, music and sound design of the films, supervised by their teachers Rémy Viala, Amanda Mckay and Iohann Miller!
• Creating film posters with graphic design students from Salette College

the GROUPS

Here are the teams who made the films, accompanied by their posters:

APOLLO NUTS

With Johanna Guinodeau, Aizhan Chulakova, Jérémy Daigneault, Élodie Boudrias, Audrey Paradis, Maxime Lemasson and Samuel Chabot.

THE LITTLE PAPER PLANE

With Paul Henry de Tremaudan, Nicole Nunes, Rositsa Zaharieva, Lovepreet Kaur, Juan Nicoas Dominguez et Nelson Van Vulpen

CATCH THEM ALL

With Elliot Meyer Derique, Benoit Gliedner, Erika Pageau, Juliane L’Allier and Rania Ben Haj

THE MISSING PIECE

With Nadine Karkour, Elysa Thys, Gaiael Bonilla Gastelum, Leticia Coelho, Tatum Dubois, Kaitlyn Koenning and Barbara Yoris.

LE VOILIER DES SABLES

With Antoine Demange, Tristan Villegier, Mathieu Van Acker, Jules Tydtgat, Maxime Hade, Ivenska Holbrook and Félix Paul St-Pierre

the JURY

Once the films were finalized, we invited one of many artists and members of 3D animation and visual effects studios so that they could discover them and ask their questions to the graduates in order to then vote for them. the “2024 jury prize”.

We would like to thank all the members of the studios present at this event:

• Blue Spirit
• Cinesite
• DNEG Animation
• Dreamworks
• Framestore
• Mathematic
• Mikros Animation
• ONF
• Rodeo FX
• Squeeze Animation

Meeting studios and graduates

Once the vote was completed, the juries present were able to meet the graduates individually and discover their portfolios, demoreels and other work! It was a great opportunity for our two groups to demonstrate their talent and motivation to officially be part of the industry!

Here are some photos of this meeting moment:

PREMIÈRE of the FILMS

We then opened the doors of the school to welcome relatives of the graduates, guests, and members of the Creative Schools who were in turn able to discover the demoreels and work of the students. e·s. We would like to thank the many participants who came to support the two groups of graduates during this event!

We were then able to begin the presentation of the five new films made by the graduates! Once on stage, each student was able to receive their diploma, presented by Cathy Fournier, registrar of the Creative Schools!

BEST GRADES PRIZE !

After viewing the films, ESMA Montreal wanted to highlight the excellent work of the two students who had the best average in their respective groups. It was our partners WACOM and Annex Pro, who wanted to reward these two students by offering them each a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet!

The students with the best overall averages in groups 722 and 772 are Mathieu Van Acker and Rositsa Zaharieva, congratulations to both of you!

2024 jury prize

Finally, after counting the votes of the juries, we were able to announce the film that won the “2024 jury prize”: Le Voilier des Sables!

Each member of the group received a trophy offered by the school and given in person by the different teachers who followed the graduates throughout the creation process!

Congratulations to the Le Voilier des Sables group!

We would also like to congratulate all the graduates of the 2024 cohort for their tenacity and their very good work over the last two years. The films are of impressive quality and we look forward to showing them to you soon on our ESMA Montreal YouTube channel!

THANKS TO

We would like once again to thank all the people who made these different projects and this event possible:

• the graduates for their tenacity and for their extraordinary work;
• the teachers who accompanied the graduates all the way to create these superb projects;

• the studios and their members for the conferences, interventions and visits organized as well as their presence on this jury which was a most enriching opportunity for these new talents in the industry;
• our partners Wacom and Annex pro, for the prizes awarded to our two best students;
• the Musitechnic students, teachers and technicians who worked on the films for several months and enabled the event to run smoothly;
• the students and teachers of Collège Salette for the superb film posters;
• Carlos Riobo, photographer and member of the Creative Schools who took the magnificent photos of this event;
• the members of the administration who followed and supported the students throughout their journey;
• and finally all the participants of this event who made it even more unforgettable for the graduates!See you next year for the 3D 2025 jury!