Rubika is a school founded in 1988 in

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...

, France. It specializes in 2D/3D animation, video games and industrial design. It is a consortium of institutes including ISD Rubika, Supinfocom and Supinfogame. Rubika has campuses in France, India and Canada. It has about 1200 students.

ISD Rubika

Institut Supérieur du Design (ISD) Rubika is a French school of design located at two sites, in

(France) and in

Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...

(India). It was founded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grand Hainaut in 1987. It offers professional certificates in Management in Engineering Design, Product Design and transports design in five years.

History

ISD Rubika was founded in 1987 at Valenciennes, aiming to train designers to work in manufacturing and mass retail companies. Since 1987, ISD is a member of

ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH is the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques based in New York. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was ...

Research

ISD’s Research-Transfer-Innovation unit conducts about 50 applied research projects every year with industrial, commercial and scientific partners. The other field of applied research concerns engineering pedagogy, developed on the basis of industrial forecasting, the evolution of tools and methods of product conception and mobility systems for goods and passengers. ISD has a ‘laboratory collaboration’ agreement with the Engineering Pedagogy lab of the

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Group.

Supinfocom

Supinfocom (, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in

Arles Arles ( , , ; ; Classical ) is a coastal city and Communes of France, commune in the South of France, a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône Departments of France, department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Reg ...

(

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) and

(

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

). Founded in 1988 in

, the school offers a five-year course leading to a diploma of digital direction (certified Level I). A second campus in

opened in 2000, while a third one opened in 2008 in

. In November 2007, the school was ranked #1 worldwide by the American magazine "3D World" with criteria such as the distribution of student films and prizes in festivals around the world. The curriculum includes: * Two years of preparatory courses (design and applied art, perspective, film analysis, video, color,

2D animation Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there was a shif ...

, art history, sculpture, communication, English); * Three years of specialization in computer graphics (3D software, screenplay, storyboards, animation, compositing, 3D production, sound, editing). The final year of study is devoted to the team-based production of a short film in CG. Until the class of 2007 entered, there were only two years of specialization courses; there are now three.

Supinfogame

Supinfogame is the first French school fully dedicated to the videogame industry. Located in

, it is one of the three schools of Rubika. Based on a

chamber of commerce A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to a ...

initiative and launched in 2001, Supinfogame trains students in

game design Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, Wargame (video games), war ga ...

, game art,

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

and

game programming Game programming, a subset of game development, is the software development of video games. Game programming requires substantial skill in software engineering and computer programming in a given language, as well as specialization in one or ...

. Each year, 40 baccalaureate laureates pass the test to start the 3-year first Cycle, in Management/Game Design or Management/Game Art Section. The second cycle is open to candidates with an HND level (equivalent to a Bac+2 or Bac+3). The number of students in the Second cycle is 25 places for Management/Game Design, 20 places for Management/Game Art and 16 for Management/Programming. The diploma delivered is recognized by the French Government and its title is : Videogame Director. It is a Bac+5 diploma. The school is also supported by the SELL, the SNJV and by the

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as part of ESF and ERDF.

Supinfogame and the videogame industry

Since its beginning, Supinfogame has built its educational content with the help of professionals. In France and abroad, videogame companies (both developers and publishers) trust SUPINFOGAME's pedagogy and therefore offer internships and positions to students in France and worldwide (

Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Anno'', '' Assassin's Creed'', ' ...

2K Czech 2K Czech, s.r.o. (formerly Illusion Softworks, a.s.) was a Czech video game developer based in Brno, founded as Illusion Softworks in 1997 by Petr Vochozka and Jan Kudera. The company was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in January 2008 and sub ...

Arkane Studios Arkane Studios SASU is a French video game developer based in Lyon. It was founded in 1999, and released its first game, ''Arx Fatalis'', in 2002. The studio has created the popular Dishonored (series), ''Dishonored'' series as well as developi ...

Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by former Apple Inc., Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry ...

Gameloft Gameloft SE is a French video game company based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide, and publishes games for mobile devices, video game consoles, and ...

Eden Games Eden Games SA (formerly known as Eden Studios) is a French video game developer based in Lyon, France, that mainly focuses on the development of racing video games. History The company was formed as a development group within Infogrames' Europea ...

Ankama Ankama is a French entertainment company headquartered in Roubaix, France, focused on the design of massive multiplayer online role playing games ('' Dofus'', '' Dofus Arena'' and '' Wakfu''). The company is also active in publishing, animation ...

). Thus, many students and graduates appear in the credits of significant published games like:

Dishonored ''Dishonored'' is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall, ''Dishonored'' follows the story of Corvo Attano, bodyguard to th ...

Assassin's Creed ''Assassin's Creed'' is a historical fiction, historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil (game engine), Anvil and its m ...

Crysis 2 ''Crysis 2'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Officially announced on Jun ...

, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier,

Far Cry 3 ''Far Cry 3'' is a 2012 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the third main installment in the '' Far Cry'' series after ''Far Cry 2''. The game takes place on the fictional Rook Islands, a t ...

, Splinter Cell Double Agent,

Rayman Raving Rabbids ''Rayman Raving Rabbids'' () is a 2006 party video game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft for the Wii. It was also released for the PlayStation 2 and Windows in 2006 as well as the Xbox 360 in 2007 and Mac OS X in 2008. ...

, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance and so on.

Awards

* In 2011 : SACD AWARDS for Best Student Game for Hollywood Zombie Pinball Apocalypse * In 2011 : MICROSOFT, IMAGINE CUP: World Gold Medal for Game Design on Mobile for Brainergy * In 2010 : UNITY AWARDS for Best Visual Design for the Uncanny Fish Hunt. * In 2009 : IMAGINA AWARDS for Alice en Pièces.

International partnerships

*In 2007 a MoU was signed between Supinfogame and the

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Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

for student's exchanges. *The same year, the Indian group D.S.Kulkarni call upon SUPINFOCOM GROUP to expand their know-how. In 2008 Supinfogame, Supinfocom and the ISD launched their pedagogy on the international campus of

, in

. *20.0% of our 200 alumni work in foreign countries: in the USA (New York City and San Francisco), in Canada (Montreal and Toronto), in China (Shanghai), in Korea (Seoul).

Career prospects

Supinfogame offers a wide range of careers:

game designer Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, Wargame (video games), war ga ...

level designer In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective. Video game levels generally have progressively incre ...

production assistant A production assistant, also known as a PA, is a member of the film crew and is a job title used in filmmaking and television for a person responsible for various aspects of a production. The job of a PA can vary greatly depending on the budget ...

project manager A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers have the responsibility of the Project planning, planning, procurement and execution of a project, in any undertaking that has a defined scope, defined star ...

, 2D/3D, 2D/3D animator,

character designer Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * Character (novel), ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * Characters (Theophrastus), ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek se ...

, and

screenplay writer A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. Out of 200 diplomaed students, 98.0% actually work in the Gaming Industry.

References

External links

Official Website

Official site of Supinfocom Valenciennes

Official site of DSK Supinfocom Pune

DSK Supinfogame Official Website

Les meilleurs projets des étudiants (Vidéos)
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