- 2D
- 3D
- Animation
- Cinema
- Digital
- Video game
ARTFX
- 2D animated film, 3D character animation
- 3D & digital visual effects (VFX)
ARTFX, founded in 2004, is an international school of digital arts training students for careers in cinema, animation, visual effects and video games, with campuses in France and London.
Its Lille campus, in the heart of EuraCreative, offers a cutting-edge creative and technological environment dedicated to cinema, 2D/3D animation and VFX.
What they do
ARTFX is the first French school to train students in digital visual effects (VFX). It was founded in 2004 in Montpellier by a team of creative industry professionals, including Gilbert Kiner, a pioneer of visual effects in France.
Since then, ARTFX has established itself as an international school of digital arts, specialising in cinema, animation, visual effects and video games, with campuses in Montpellier, Paris and Lille, and a new campus opened in London in 2026.
Across the group, ARTFX trains young French and international talent in 2D and 3D animation, digital visual effects (VFX), digital directing and video games, combining traditional arts (drawing, life modelling, photography, anatomy, staging) with advanced technologies (3D software, real-time engines, AI, procedural tools, filming, compositing, etc.). The curricula are organised as a 5-year Master’s cycle, with team-made graduation projects defended before panels of professionals.
ARTFX is regularly ranked among the best creative schools in the world, notably in The Rookies rankings, where it is among the top schools in Visual Effects and Video Games. Students’ graduation projects are selected at many international festivals and regularly win awards, such as Best Student Film at PIDS Enghien 2026 with the film Two Kings, the first film by Lille’s graduating class.
The ARTFX group is part of a wider ecosystem: its campus hosts École 24, which trains students for film careers from screenwriting through to post-production, as well as 24 Acting, with its 3-year course to become an actor. ARTFX is also developing new programmes, such as the Content Creator course, over 2 intensive years.
To discover all the courses, projects and news:
- The ARTFX website: https://artfx.school
- The ARTFX Linktree (all the information and links in one click): https://linktr.ee/ARTFX
- Graduation projects: https://artfx.school/projets-fin-etudes/
- The Rookies 2025 ranking: https://artfx.school/actualite/artfx-encore-classee-parmi-les-meilleures-ecoles-creatives-au-monde-the-rookies-2025/
ARTFX Lille campus
Established in Lille since 2020, ARTFX moved in 2023 to a brand-new, ultra-modern campus in the heart of EuraCreative, the first European hub for creative industries, in Tourcoing. The Lille-EuraCreative campus covers 6,000 m² of teaching and practice space, with 400 m² of filming studios, a lecture theatre, a cinema room, art and computer rooms, and a 500-unit student residence located just opposite the school.
In Lille, ARTFX trains talent for careers in cinema, 2D/3D animation and digital visual effects (VFX), without offering a dedicated video game course on this campus. The curricula are built around a 5-year Master’s cycle, combining artistic fundamentals and advanced technical skills, in an environment close to industry pipelines and firmly rooted in storytelling and staging.
The campus welcomes more than 450 students, supervised by more than 40 industry professionals from film, animation and VFX studios. Student productions shine on the international stage, such as the film Two Kings, the first film by Lille’s graduating class, which won the Best Student Film Award at PIDS Enghien in 2026 in the VFX/CGI category.
The same campus also hosts École 24, which trains students for film careers from screenwriting through to post-production, as well as 24 Acting, with its 3-year course to become an actor.
