04.09 | 16:00

The discussion Back to School raises the issue of education in Ukraine. We will talk with the best schools of animation, graphics, gaming and visual effects, about their courses, perspectives their graduates have, interesting collaboration cases, extracurricular projects and plans for the future.

Projector Creative & Tech School is the school for designers, illustrators, animators, developers and marketing professionals. It was founded in 2015. To date, over 60 educational programmes and 7 yearly courses are available, over 6000 students graduated from it. 

Art Craft is an international school of computer graphics and digital drawing. Since 2016, it combines creativity and modern technology. It has over 7000 students all around the world, and over 100 000 participants of free ArtCraft activities and new formats of "Lite / Sandbox"!

Games Academy is the first game development school offering the full cycle of education in Ukraine. The main objective is to train novice professionals to work in the gaming industry and help them with employment. Over 500 professionals graduated from the school in different areas – ranging from game design to 3D modeling.  

TFX Workshop is the first school in Ukraine where future VFX specialists are trained directly in the studio and based on real projects. It is a true ‘workshop’ school that teaches professionals and is ready to employ them afterwards. It aims to teach how to create visual effects for films, games, commercials and any other type of video content. 

Pause to play trains students in the main types of animation. It offers courses in 2D, 3D, Stop Motion and frame-by-frame animation from scratch. The practice is in the centre of the teaching process of Pause to play. In this school, students work on large-scale projects that help them turn their beginners' skills into real art.