Richard Cunningham - External Examiner For Our New MA in Character & Creature Creation

Richard Cunningham

We're delighted that Richard Cunningham has agreed to be our External Examiner for our new Master's Degree in Character and Creature Creation at Escape Studios.

External examiners play an important part of quality control in UK higher education, ensuring that our courses meet the highest standards, and that the grades awarded are correct and appropriate.

We're honoured to have Richard onboard; he is an experienced animator and a lecturer in Computer Animation and Digital Media at Kingston University, and already acts as our external examiner for our MA in Animation. 

Richard is also a graduate of Bard College, New York, Kingston University, and Blue Zoo's Anim Dojo animation programme.

The role of an external examiner

Creature design by Max Brazier Jones

External examiners ensure that standards are consistent across the animation sector. They check our grades, making sure we're awarding marks appropriately, and that our standards are consistent with other universities and colleges in the UK.

For our MA students, this involves double-checking our marks, to make sure that both first and second marking (we second-mark all the results internally) has been carried out fairly, in accordance with the regulations of Kent University, who award our degrees. 

MA in Character & Creature Creation

Our new MA in Character & Creature Creation is all about designing, modeling, and rigging your own characters.  In this year long Master's Degree, students will learn all the stages of character creation from design through to final render. The MA course, which is now recruiting, starts in September 2021. To apply, visit the official course page here. You can read about it at AWN.com here.

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for our BA/MArt in 3D Animation, follow this link.  To apply for our storyboarding evening class, visit this page here.  For the next 12 week animation course, click here. And to apply for the next evening class in Producing Animation, see this page.