"Step Up to Unreal" Free Course Starts Today

"Novem" - rendered in Unreal Engine

"Step Up to Unreal" starts today - a new free introduction to Unreal Engine at Escape Studios from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. 

The event has been made possible by ScreenSkills, and offers students the chance to take a paid work placement with some of the best VFX film and TV studios in the UK.

The event is free, and takes place from today Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. You can find out more here. 

Learn Unreal Engine

Learn Unreal Engine for free and get the chance to take a paid work placement with some of the best VFX film and TV studios in the UK. Escape Studios and ScreenSkills are collaborating to help ensure the UK VFX industry gets the talent it needs, trained in the expanding field of real time rendering and production.

Free to Join
This course is completely free - thanks to funding from the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund with contributions from UK high-end TV productions and the BFI. To apply, follow this link.

Industry Placements

Companies interested in offering placements to Step Up to Unreal attendees currently include: Framestore, Halon Entertainment, Garden Studios, Lux Machina, Dimension Studios, Untold, The Mill and Technicolour.

Requirements

"Hat Shop" rendered in Unreal Engine

The course is aimed at applicants with at least two years of professional experience.

Course Details
Location: Online
Course dates: 23rd - 27th May 2022
Price: Free

"Summer of Unreal" Engine Training

Escape Studios - Authorised ATC

Last year's "Summer of Unreal" was the largest Unreal Engine training ever attempted across Europe.  Escape Studios helped over 1,000 industry professionals to learn the Unreal Engine animation tools.

About Unreal Engine
Unreal Engine has become a core part of the Escape games, vfx and animation courses - and fundamental in helping us train our students towards becoming industry ready talent. 

Unreal Engine in Animation

The games industry has long been used to real-time rendering, but the advantages of the technology are now being rolled out for VFX and animation.  The animation department at Escape Studios first began rendering with Unreal Engine in 2018 with the award-winning short Planet Mars, directed by Sebastian Kuder. 

Unreal Engine 23rd - 27th May 2022
Our students will benefit from five days of free training; most will already have some knowledge of 3D software, but we start with the basics and work our way up.  Classes are taught live online and will run from 23 May to 27th May. 

Escape Studios "Unreal" Films

Planet Mars  - rendered in Unreal Engine

To see a selection of award-winning films at Escape Studios, rendered in Unreal Engine, see the links below:

• SideQuest (2021)
• The Beauty of Nature (2021)
• Malloe (2021)
• Over Under (2020)
• Quarantine Chorus (2020)
• Adam & Eve Mk II (2019)
• Planet Mars (2018)

Unreal ATC

Adam & Eve Mk II rendered in Unreal Engine

Escape Studios is an Unreal Engine Authorised Training Centre (ATC), the first of its kind in the UK and one of only a handful in Europe.

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.