Hi! I love your work! I'm also interested in taking the Gobelins entrance exams next year. Ummm... I'm sorry if I'm being rude for asking this, but could you tell what kind of exercises they have in the entrance exams besides 3 hour of animating and 3 hours of storyboarding?
Hey! Thank you very much! Actually, I'm here at Gobelins as an exchange student from CalArts, so I didn't have to pass the Gobelins exam -which is very hard! I did try to get in three years ago and didn't pass, but luckily I got accepted into CalArts, where they have a different criteria of acceptance in my opinion. Gobelins is very technical! So be sure to practice drawing a lot. It's probably better you ask someone else, but I can tell you that the Gobelins application is a three step process. You can read this also in blogs of other students that ask for advice. - going to Paris, passing day long drawing exam that includes drawing a character in different poses from a model sheet they give you (the character and the actions are surprise), animation test (in-betweening a three dimensional shape, completing walk cycles, etc) narrative writing ( I don't remember very well... but they give you a story to read and you have to write it from another point of view if I'm not mistaken) and finally the hardest (in my opinion!) storyboard. they give you tale or story and you have to adapt it in story board format (paying attention to using film language, strong compositions, posing and acting, and understanding the rhythm of the story you're telling) - a strong portfolio including life drawings, character designs, backgrounds, sketches - for this I recommend looking at portfolios of accepted students that post their "Gobelins book" to get an idea. if you are selected to be a finalist you have to pass the final test which is an interview with film analysis where you show an understanding of film, art, etc (I have no idea about this part because I didn't get this far hehe) Good luck!!
You have a nice sense of storytelling, the sand story is great ! I was quite suprised at first, thinking this was an entrance exam portfolio, because it's quite specialised in story development whereas usually the portfolios shown are more generalist :) Anyway your work is really great !
I took the entrance exam for the third time this year, so if Hye-Jin comes by again I'll add some informations :) Because the exam is a bit different now. The animation test consists in breaking down an action done by a given character in a background. This year we had Figaro's model sheet from Pinocchio and the background layout was a living room. We had to make the cat go from the table in the foreground on the left to the sofa in the background on the right. We also had another background layout, not related to the one for the animation test. We had to draw it again as a low-angle shot and as a reverse shot. Which make one kind of animation without a pegbar (it's more like a posing exercise) and two background layouts to do in 3 and a half hours.. Not cleaned up of course, you can keep it rough. The storyboard test hasn't changed :)
I got to the interview last year, it was with a panel made up of three people. They look at your portfolio while you're waiting in the corridor, then they let you in and you have to - pitch your film project (you're meant to bring one, it's the greatest and toughest change in the whole exam) - talk with them about your motivation, what brings you here, what have you done since now etc The mark given after the interview depends on 3 criterias : the portfolio, the pitch and the interview There's no more film analysis, it's just these three things :)
Hi! I love your work! I'm also interested in taking the Gobelins entrance exams next year. Ummm... I'm sorry if I'm being rude for asking this, but could you tell what kind of exercises they have in the entrance exams besides 3 hour of animating and 3 hours of storyboarding?
ReplyDeleteHey! Thank you very much!
DeleteActually, I'm here at Gobelins as an exchange student from CalArts, so I didn't have to pass the Gobelins exam -which is very hard! I did try to get in three years ago and didn't pass, but luckily I got accepted into CalArts, where they have a different criteria of acceptance in my opinion.
Gobelins is very technical! So be sure to practice drawing a lot.
It's probably better you ask someone else, but I can tell you that the Gobelins application is a three step process. You can read this also in blogs of other students that ask for advice.
- going to Paris, passing day long drawing exam that includes drawing a character in different poses from a model sheet they give you (the character and the actions are surprise), animation test (in-betweening a three dimensional shape, completing walk cycles, etc) narrative writing ( I don't remember very well... but they give you a story to read and you have to write it from another point of view if I'm not mistaken) and finally the hardest (in my opinion!) storyboard. they give you tale or story and you have to adapt it in story board format (paying attention to using film language, strong compositions, posing and acting, and understanding the rhythm of the story you're telling)
- a strong portfolio including life drawings, character designs, backgrounds, sketches - for this I recommend looking at portfolios of accepted students that post their "Gobelins book" to get an idea.
if you are selected to be a finalist you have to pass the final test which is an interview with film analysis where you show an understanding of film, art, etc (I have no idea about this part because I didn't get this far hehe)
Good luck!!
You have a nice sense of storytelling, the sand story is great ! I was quite suprised at first, thinking this was an entrance exam portfolio, because it's quite specialised in story development whereas usually the portfolios shown are more generalist :) Anyway your work is really great !
ReplyDeleteI took the entrance exam for the third time this year, so if Hye-Jin comes by again I'll add some informations :) Because the exam is a bit different now.
The animation test consists in breaking down an action done by a given character in a background. This year we had Figaro's model sheet from Pinocchio and the background layout was a living room. We had to make the cat go from the table in the foreground on the left to the sofa in the background on the right. We also had another background layout, not related to the one for the animation test. We had to draw it again as a low-angle shot and as a reverse shot. Which make one kind of animation without a pegbar (it's more like a posing exercise) and two background layouts to do in 3 and a half hours.. Not cleaned up of course, you can keep it rough.
The storyboard test hasn't changed :)
I got to the interview last year, it was with a panel made up of three people. They look at your portfolio while you're waiting in the corridor, then they let you in and you have to
- pitch your film project (you're meant to bring one, it's the greatest and toughest change in the whole exam)
- talk with them about your motivation, what brings you here, what have you done since now etc
The mark given after the interview depends on 3 criterias : the portfolio, the pitch and the interview
There's no more film analysis, it's just these three things :)