Aspen Lane No2 at the Rookies for VR

What lurks inside No 2 Aspen Lane?

Many congratulations to our talented games students whose VR game "Aspen Lane - VR Paranormal Investigation" was ranked No2 at "The Rookies" in the VR category.

The Rookie Awards is an annual contest that is open to young creative talent in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3D visualisation. This year saw thousands of entries in all categories from animation schools all over the world - the most competitive year ever. You can find Aspen Lane here.

Aspen Lane - VR Paranormal Investigation
In Aspen Lane, you play as a Paranormal Investigator called to uncover evidence of a malicious haunting within a family home in North London. The family are relying on you. What mysteries will you uncover down Aspen Lane?

Aspen Lane Credits
cleous: Art Director/Lighting Artist
Theo Rust: Producer/Environment Artist
Kei Garner: FX/Prop Artist, Voice Acting
Palagamsan Sivapathasundaram: Tech/FX Artist
Zuquiel Abrahams: Environment/Materials Artist
Alex Crisan: Prop/Vehicle Artist
Dawid Batóg: Prop Artist/Audio
Bridget Wright: Prop Artist
Tyrone Harper: Prop Artist
Florin Iasinovschi: Prop Artist
Maxim Isakov: Prop Artist
Jeffry Siguencia: Environment Artist

2020 "Rookies"
This year, many of our students had films selected for The Rookies, including "VFX Film of the Year".

Three of our students' films were selected for the finals: "Offcut", "Seeker" and "The Lost City of Aztlan", all three of which are currently also in festival competition. 

Rookie Awards
The Rookie Awards is an annual contest that is open to young creative talent in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3D visualisation. The contest is open to amateur artists with less than one year of professional experience in their chosen category.

Escape Studios in The Rookies
At Escape Studios we encourage our students to enter the best work that they create during the the course of their studies. Success in the Rookies is especially notable as the number of entrants is enormous; this year there have been 3,769 entries, including work from 521 schools and 88 different countries.

"Offcut", "Seeker" and "The Lost City of Aztlan"
Escape students have the following three films as the finalists in the VFX Film of the Year award:

• “The Lost City Of Aztlan”, directed by Mariam Huseein https://www.therookies.co/entries/6674
• “Seeker” directed by Rassoul Edji https://www.therookies.co/entries/7346
• “Offcut”, directed by Petroc Menuhin https://www.therookies.co/entries/4509

Rassoul Edji - Finalist, "Rookie of the Year"
In addition, Rassoul Edji (director of “Seeker”) was selected as a finalist in the Rookie of the Year VFX category: https://www.therookies.co/entries/7529:

Game Art
We also had a number of Game Art entries in “Console & PC Finalists“, “Immersive Media Finalists“, “Lightfield Studio Internship Finalists” and “Ninja Theory Studio Internship Finalists“.

Well done to all our students on their remarkable work.

Escape Studios Ranked Global No 4 for VFX 
In 2019 The Rookies ranked us No 4 globally for Animation & VFX,  being "Highly Commended" in many categories,  and reaching the finals in many categories in animation, VFX and games.

Official Site
To see more, visit the official site.

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 2020, follow this link.   To apply, visit the official page here.