Simone Giampaolo to Teach at Escape Studios

Simone Giampaolo

We're delighted to welcome animation director Simone Giampaolo to Escape Studios, to teach our short course and masters' animation students.

Simone worked at Blue Zoo animation in London for many years as an animator, rising to become animation supervisor and eventually director of some of Blue Zoo's best animation shorts.

Simone is now working as an animation director for Aardman animation in Bristol, but we managed to find a couple of gaps in his schedule to teach our animation students.

Simone Giampaolo - Animation Director Reel 2018 from Simone Giampaolo on Vimeo.

Simone worked at Blue Zoo for many years, animating TV Series such as Miffy's Adventures Big and Small.  At Blue Zoo Simone honed his craft, learning how to deliver excellent quality animation on unforgiving TV schedules.

Simone will be teaching animation to our short course and MA students from Monday 10 December. To see more of Simone's work, check out his website here.

Advanced Animation - Monday January 14th
Simone will also be teaching the Advanced Animation class for three weeks, the week starting Monday January 14th, Monday January 21st, and Monday January 28th. He will be teaching advanced character acting, drawing from his extensive experience at Blue Zoo and Aardman.  

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2019, follow this link.   To apply, visit the official page here.