Artists-authors now have the right to ongoing professional education. This has been official since the adoption of an amendment by the Senate on December 15, 2011. Everyone at ArtFx Training, a professional digital images instructional program, rejoiced at this news.

Each year for the past five years, our second-year students have created a film for the Clermont-Ferrand International short film Festival. This has been an important moment for these students because it is a team effort with everyone working to support the same film. It is also the first major project they see through from start to finish, conception to completion. As an added bonus, the film is in 3-D!

The 39th edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival will be held from January 26 to 29. Just like in previous years, ArtFx will be present. Students from ArtFx will create a photographic and video journal of this not-to-be-missed event, and ArtFx student creations will be projected at the Soleil publisher’s stand.

It is within the framework of the recent “Rencontres Animation Formation (Animation Training Conference)” in Angoulême that 15 schools announced the creation of the French Network of Cinema Animation (RECA) which took affect on January 1, 2012. ArtFx is a member of this network and I have personally worked on designing training tools to help facilitate this collaboration.

Do you know about the pinhole camera?
François Vogel recently wrote a book dedicated to this subject. Below is a review from ArtFx.