Diploma in Dessin animé at Cégep du Vieux Montréal in Montréal, Canada is a diploma in Film & Animation programme. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Film & Animation
Duration: 3 years
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Leading to a DEC in Dessin animé (code 574.AB), this program covers the process of producing traditional animated film, including character and set design, storyboarding, animation, and coloring, with drawing skills developed on both paper and screen tablets. The page describes it as offered uniquely at this college among comparable programs, taught by instructors with professional animation industry backgrounds. Students create a complete animated short from start to finish, generating all production elements themselves, including characters, settings, and props, with substantial computer-based coursework in 2D digital animation software; the college is recognized as a Toon Boom software centre of excellence. It suits students focused specifically on traditional 2D character animation rather than 3D production or live-action filmmaking. Described career paths include animator, character designer, set designer, colorist, and illustrator, with employers spanning television and film production studios, advertising producers, video-game companies, and web animation studios. Graduates may pursue university studies in film studies, visual arts, or digital creation, subject to each institution's own admission requirements.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Cégep du Vieux Montréal's admission page for Dessin animé (574.AB) states no fixed course prerequisites beyond the college's general admission conditions, but the programme adds a competitive selection: a first cut is made on the secondary-school record, after which candidates may be called to a roughly two-hour drawing test, held on a Saturday in mid-March and marked by a committee of programme teachers whose decision is final; the college offers preparatory drawing courses to help applicants ready for it. The general academic basis is a Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES) or Diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP) with standard secondary courses completed, or an equivalent Canadian diploma. Applicants without French-language schooling in Quebec must pass the college's own French-proficiency test, with no pass mark published. International applicants need a DES-equivalent diploma (11 to 13 years of schooling, or the baccalauréat route) plus this programme's own prerequisites, and apply through admission.sram.qc.ca.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM): for Fall 2027 entry the online system opens mid-January 2027 and the round-one deadline is 1 March 2027, 11:59 p.m., with responses around 5 April and further rounds running into late May while places remain; Winter 2027 entry is already open, with a round-one deadline of 1 November 2026. International applicants follow a separate SRAM timeline: applications for Fall 2027 opened 15 March 2026 and close 14 March 2027, while Winter 2028 applications open 1 June 2026 and close 31 May 2027. Admission is not open-ended rolling, but SRAM runs successive rounds for as long as places remain. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
