CG-ARTS Opens Animation Skills Test With Five Production Companies Scoring
The test turns hiring evaluation over to five active CG production companies, so the scores and advice students receive come from the same studios that recruit them.
Reporting from 1 source: GameBusiness.jp.
CG-ARTS will hold its Animation Practical Skills Test 2026 for students aiming to become CG animators. Institutional registration begins October 1, 2026, and exam entries run from early November until November 30. Capacity is 500 on a first-come, first-served basis. Anima, OLM Digital, Orange, Sanzigen, and Polygon Pictures score the submitted works, with scores, advice comments, and national rankings returned to examinees.
The exam fee is 7,700 yen including tax, raised from 6,700 yen. Scoring splits evenly between a basic evaluation and a company evaluation. The basic evaluation covers posing, animation, direction, layout and camera work, and length and specifications against criteria set by the evaluating companies. The company evaluation uses new graduate hiring level as its standard, and an advice comment arrives from one company picked at random from the evaluating companies or the secretariat. Works that fall below a certain standard in the basic evaluation receive detailed comments from the secretariat.
Supporting member companies recruited as Like! Companies can mark assignments they like, letting examinees see which companies evaluated their work.
- Anima Inc.: evaluating company
- OLM Digital, Inc.: evaluating company
- Orange Co., Ltd.: evaluating company
- Sanzigen Inc.: evaluating company
- Polygon Pictures, Inc.: evaluating company
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- GameBusiness.jp CG-ARTS「アニメーション実技試験2026」実施。CGプロダクション5社が学生の手付けアニメーションを評価