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Wednesday, 2 April 2025
Unreal Engine for Film & TV Starts 29 April 2025
Our new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Film and TV starts on 29 April 2025. Taught by industry veteran Shaun Foster MFA, this course teaches the Unreal Engine pipeline, showing how digital film-makers can render their shots in real time, rather than the many hours of render times taken by traditional ray tracing packages. To find out more follow this link: https://bit.ly/4hOhLNR
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Introducing "Mini Mail"
Introducing Mini Mail, the latest VFX short from Escape Studios. Mini Mail was created by our third year graduating class of VFX students at Escape Studios; it was written and directed by Thomas Greensmith and produced by Nilufer Redet. Asia Gayle was the 3D VFX lead, and Daniel Beeching was the 2D VFX Lead. John Oakes-Pearson stars as the delivery guy. Industry feedback was generously provided by Industrial Light & Magic.
Monday, 31 March 2025
Checkmate Wins Best Student Film at Reels Fest
"Checkmate" wins Best Student Film at Reels Film Fest |
Checkmate was completed as part of Studio Module PR5001, a collaborative module in which second-year animation students work together on short film projects. Checkmate was directed by Cara Masters and produced by Erminas Surgautas. This is its fourth festival award.
Friday, 28 March 2025
Unreal Engine for Architecture Starts 28 April 2025
Our new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Architecture starts on 28 April 2025. The course runs from 28 April until 17 June 2025; 12 evening classes over six weeks.
Escape Studios has been an Unreal Engine Authorized Training Centre since 2020 - the first Unreal ATC in the UK. To find out more, follow this link: https://bit.ly/4hOhLNR.
Unreal Engine 5 offers capabilities that can transform the way architectural visualisation is approached and executed, speeding up the render process.
This new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Architecture is created specifically for architects, architectural students or people working in an art role within construction who want to add Unreal Engine to their arsenal.
Thursday, 27 March 2025
X-Terminate Wins Best VFX at Reels Fest
X-Terminate wins "Best VFX" at Reels Film Festival Awards |
Directed by Maria Freitas and produced by Emmanuel Rahman, X-Terminate was a collaboration between undergraduate animation students and VFX students at Escape Studios, working together to create an original story. Guy Dijkhuis was the 3D VFX Lead; Caterina Castiglione was the 2D VFX Lead. This is the fifth festival award for X-Terminate.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Last Call for 3D Anim Evening Class Starts 7 April
Our 3D Animation Evening Class runs for 20 weeks on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 7-10pm, and is taught online by veteran animator Matteo Sanna.
Students start with basic exercises and build towards an industry-ready demo reel.
The 3D Animation Evening Class returns on 7 April 2025.
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Introducing "Crawl Space" by James Hothi
Escape Studios is proud to present "Crawl Space", a new short animation created by MA Animation student James Hothi. James Hothi is studying the Art of Computer Animation at Escape Studios, taught by industry veteran Kevin Richards.
Monday, 24 March 2025
Introducing the 3D VFX Team at Escape Studios
Meet the 3D VFX Team at Escape Studios. VFX is at the heart of Escape Studios; it's where we began 20 years ago - when the industry was just starting to expand and grow.
Back in the early 2000s there were few places in the UK where students could learn the necessary skills to land that crucial first job in the VFX industry. Below are our talented tutors who teach the art and craft of VFX at Escape Studios, helping to ensure we remain the UK's leading centre for the study of VFX.
Friday, 21 March 2025
How Animators Find Industry Mentors
One question I sometimes get asked by students at Escape Studios is "How Do I Find a Mentor?" The answer (of course!) is to start with your tutors, and then broaden out from there. Over the course of a long animation career our Escapees are likely to have many mentors, though very few of these (if any) will be formal mentorship roles; most will be informal, and you might not even realise these people were mentors until many years later. In my case I have been lucky enough to be mentored by animators such as James Baxter (Road to El Dorado), Andreas Deja (Lion King), Duncan Marjoribanks (Pocahontas) and also Glen Keane, whose notes on planning animation I still refer to today. But mentorship is, in each and every case, very much what you make of it.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
"Ongo" Wins "Best Super Short" in Florence
Congratulations to the makers of Ongo, which has won Best Super Short Film at the Florence Film Awards. Ongo was created by our third year graduating class of 3D animation students at Escape Studios.
Ongo was written and directed by Anna Reyes Ramirez and produced by Stephanie Quelal Castaneda. Industry feedback was generously provided by Charlie Tetlow and Felipe De Lanteuil from Industrial Light & Magic. This is the third festival award for Ongo,
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Escapeverse Live 2025 - Now at YouTube
For anyone who missed the EscapeVerse Live Festival at the end of February, we've now uploaded the full schedule of talks, panels and webinars to our YouTube channel. Above is the Teamwork Panel I hosted on 25 February, with Escapees Adam Dewhirst, Ricardo Ferreira, Stefano Ferron and Harry Symonds. They were all great guests and had many entertaining insights into the importance of good teamwork - as well as some horror stories about teamwork gone wrong (such as Adam's fishy tale at 31:31). You can find the full EscapeVerse 2025 playlist here.
Monday, 17 March 2025
Introducing "Save Yourself"
Introducing Save Yourself, the latest VFX short from Escape Studios. Save Yourself was created by our third year graduating class of VFX students at Escape Studios. The short film was written and directed by Jasmine Patel and produced by Charlie Cope. Harrison Davies was the 3D VFX lead, and Fiona Lee was the 2D VFX Lead. Cinematography was by Irene Gomez-Emilsson. Industry feedback was generously provided by Industrial Light & Magic.
Friday, 14 March 2025
"Ongo" Wins "Best Animation" at NYC Awards
Ongo wins Best Animated Film at NYC Movie Awards |
Ongo was written and directed by Anna Reyes Ramirez and produced by Stephanie Quelal Castaneda. Industry feedback was generously provided by Charlie Tetlow and Felipe De Lanteuil from Industrial Light & Magic. This is the second festival award for Ongo,
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Introducing The 2D VFX Team at Escape Studios
Meet the 2D VFX Team at Escape Studios. 2D VFX is all about compositing, and is primarily taught in Nuke, by The Foundry.
Our graduates in 2D Compositing have enjoyed considerable success in recent years, with a very high proportion of our students finding work in their chosen field. Compositing continues to be a vital part of the VFX Pipeline.
Below are the talented tutors who teach the art and craft of 2D VFX at Escape Studios, helping to ensure we remain the UK's leading centre for the study of VFX.
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Introducing "Cursed Bond"
Introducing "Cursed Bond", the story of a mysterious hermit who finds a strange creature in the forest. "Cursed Bond" was created by our third year graduating class of VFX students at Escape Studios. The short film was written and directed by Ted Walker, and produced by Mahak Chowdhary. Cinematography was by Irene Gomez Emilsson and the VFX Supervisor was Oliver Eveson. Art direction was by Quimey Dasso.
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Escape Studios and The Art of The Ident
Ident created by Maria Robertson |
Many students have also created custom idents for their short film projects, and in 2022 our students created a series of custom idents for the British Animation Awards (BAAs). Scroll down to see some of the best Escape Studios idents below.
Monday, 10 March 2025
"Vivid" Wins Best VFX in Makizhmithran Fest
"Vivid" Wins "Best VFX" at Makizhmithran Film Festival |
"Vivid" was created by our third year graduating class of VFX students. Vivid was written and directed by Kia Claire, and produced by Amber Coventry. Samuel Greer was the 3D VFX Lead and William Griffith was the 2D VFX Lead.
This is the film's fourth festival award.
Friday, 7 March 2025
Meet The Motion Graphics Team at Escape Studios
Motion Graphics Team at Escape Studios |
Our new Master's Degree in Motion Graphics (just launched) teaches the art of motion graphics as well as the underlying theory and structure.
In September 2025 we launch our new BA/MArt in Motion Graphics, offering an undergraduate study route for the first time.
We also offer an Evening Class in Motion Graphics for part-time distance learners.
All our tutors come from industry, with experience in 2D and 3D Motion Graphics.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
"Ongo" Wins "Best Super Short Film" in London
Ongo wins Best Super Short at London Movie Awards |
Ongo was written and directed by Anna Reyes Ramirez and produced by Stephanie Quelal Castaneda. Industry feedback was generously provided by Charlie Tetlow and Felipe De Lanteuil from Industrial Light & Magic. This is the first festival award for Ongo,
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
How Long Does It Take To Learn Autodesk Maya?
Many of our first year students at Escape Studios will never have opened Maya before. Or, at least, they won't be very familiar with it. Maya is a big, complex piece of software - the interface can look daunting at first. But don't be discouraged, with time and practice - you will get there in the end.
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