On y va Gobelins! (english version)

Well...To start, I didn't know if I was going to write in portuguese, english, french, germain, spanish, italian or russian... But i'll try to do the english version too. Let's see how it works.

 I'm sorry if I do any mistakes, hein!

I should have started the blog in April, when I did the test to enter Gobelins, but you

know... Flight tickets, visa, lugagges, maps, french classes and eating the last

delicious things in Brazil...

I keep thinking about the doubts I had before coming to Gobelins, so I'll start writing about the "application" process for the school.

In march I subscribed for Animateur 3D, wich is a 1 year program dedicatd to 3D

character animation. 

For more information, prices, dates, tests: Gobelins Website

The idea of this program is to have a Demoreel with all types of animation (realistic,

cartoon; animals...).

The "application" part is not so easy, specially for the ones who doesn't speak french, like me. But thanks God Google Translator exists and, of course, friends who speaks french!

I started private french classes in April (5 months before the begging of classes at Gobelins) what, obviouslly, is n ot enough, but it helped a lot. Nowadays I can understand around 60% of what the teachers are saying, but... ok... ok. The classmates always helps me.

Well... After the french, the most annoying part of the "application" is the

documentation. The school asks for all the documents of your life, + Curriculum +

Demoreel of 1 minute + Making of the demoreel + Apresentation video spoken in

french AND english. But... It doesn't have to be a video full of effects, you just need to

be clear. They just want to know you.

After 2 weeks the list of approveds was on the Gobelin's website! And... Voila! Buying flight tickets, getting documentations ready and studying french... Two weeks later I needed to be in Paris just to do the test. That's absurd! Just for the test!

But then; I had my first french croissant, saw the Eiffel tour, walked by the Champs Elysée and thought "Ok... It makes sense".

At the pratical test, they gave us a "briefing" and we had 8 hours to do an animation.

They give you a rigged character (that looks like Norman), and you can choose the software you prefer (Maya, 3D Max or XSI). In the end you can do only a playbast in case you don't want to do a render.

 

That day I was known as "the girl who lost everything" because I did the blocking of the animation in the morning, we went out for lunch, and when we came back... Maya destroyed my rig, and, of course, my animation was destroyed with it.

Yes, I saved many versions while I was doing the blocking, but none (I repeat: none) of the files was working.

I had to restart from the beggining, what was super exciting. In the end, I did a luch better animation in 3 hours. Simpler, but more "polished".

C'est la vie!

The day after I had the interview. I was interviewed by 2 coordinators of Gobelins and the coordinator of CITIA. It's a maximum 30 minutes interview, where you talk about your studies, professional life, your goals and dreams. They ask you to explain everything you did in your pratical test, how was the creative process and which method you used.

One thing I thought was super interesting was the personal questions like "what do you think about living 1 year in France? is your family going to miss you? What about your friends?"

Ok. I admit. At that time I laughed... Living 1 year in France? Awsome!

Family missing me? There's always Skype! Facetime!

Friends lissing me? Facebook! Whatsapp!

Until today they care about the students. They care about the interaction of the students and what, maybe, we may need. So, we have help if we need.

Around 2 weeks later I got an e-mail from Gobelins (everything in french... Really... I was desesperated! I'm still desesperated) wich I don't really know if they were inviting me to study at Gobelins or if they were just thanking me for my interest in the school. HAHA But yes... I was approved.

And then... The most delicious part started: more documentations.

I did it. Got all my documentation for the Visa ready, all the documents for schools, the nursery of the school, got all my injections against hepatitis, got all the bank information and started the Visa Process.

I followed all the steps on the website Campus France. But I advise getting this whole process as quickly as possible because there are 2 "interviews". So ... It takes a while...

This was the pre-France process. Whne you get here, there's much more to do. HAHAHA

I'll continue another day...

 Bisous!

=)