Animation Tutorials with Marc Stevenson

Marc Stevenson YouTube Channel

Escape Studios' tutor Marc Stevenson 

has built up a comprehensive library of animation video tutorials, which can be found at his personal YouTube Channel here.  

Marc’s animation tutorials are all completely free, and can be used at any time by any of our students to catch up on classroom exercises or develop their animation skills. 

Marc Stevenson

Marc Stevenson

Marc Stevenson joined us at Escape Studios in November 2019, originally teaching animation basics - AN4001 - to our first year undergraduate students. Now he teaches the second year animation students the art of character and creature animation.

Marc has credits on many Hollywood hit films including Fast & Furious 6, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Moon, and Victor Frankenstein.
He also worked on Underdog, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and Marmaduke, and is currently studying for his master's degree in Animation.

Marc's online tutorials complement the existing - and growing - collection of tutorials that we create for student use, with a view to improving the experience of all our students at Escape Studios.

Online Tutorials for Our Students

The Escape Studios Vimeo Tutorial Channel is our main hub for our animation and VFX video tutorials, making it easy for our students to find tutorials to support their classroom studies. 

Our tutorials cover Animation, 3D VFX,  Compositing, Rigging, Motion Graphics, Storyboarding & Character Design, Unreal Engine and Cinematography. 

Vimeo Channel

Online learning forms one of the Five Pillars of "The Escape Method", which you can read about here.  Our goal is to provide online digital support to supplement classroom studies; video tutorials make it easy for students to catch up quickly and painlessly.  

The Vimeo Channel is available all our students at Escape Studios.  Below you can find the album links to the video tutorials. They are all password protected; if you don't have the password, ask your tutor, or send me an email at alex.williams1@pearson.com

Free for Current Students and Recent Escapees
All our tutorials are free for our current students and recent Escapees (those who have taken a course with us within the last two years).

Tutorials by Subject

To find individual Vimeo Tutorials by Subject, follow the links below:

3D Animation

• All Animation Tutorials (includes 2D and 3D Animation)
• Animation Tutorials - Locomotion & Mechanics
• Character Animation
• Animal & Creature Animation
• Storyboarding & Character Design
• Previs Animation, Cinematography, Camera & 3D Layout
• Rigging Tutorials with Michael Davies
• FX Animation in Maya (includes nCloth and Muscle Systems)
• Motion Capture Animation
• Maya Plugins & Tools (includes the Tween Machine and the Parent Master)
• Animating with Blend Shapes

2D Animation 

• 2D Animation with ToonBoom Harmony

FX Animation (Houdini, Maya and After Effects)

• FX Animation in Houdini
• FX Animation in Maya (includes nCloth and Muscle Systems)
• FX Animation in After Effects

VFX - Gen

• 3D VFX Tutorials (all tutorials)
• Rigging in Maya

VFX - Modeling

• 3D Modeling (Maya, Mudbox & ZBrush)
• 3D Modeling in ZBrush 
• 3D Modeling in Mudbox

VFX - Materials, Lighting and Rendering

• Materials, Lighting and Rendering
• Texturing in Substance Painter
• Lighting and Shadows in Maya 
• An Introduction to the Arnold Renderer
• Real-Time Rendering with Unreal Engine
• 3D Stereo Rendering
• Escape Studios Qube Render Farm 

2D VFX (Compositing)

• 2D VFX - Compositing in Nuke

Motion Graphics (After Effects)

• Motion Graphics Animation Tutorials

Adobe Creative Suite

• Editing Basics with Adobe Premiere

Unreal Engine

• Real-Time Rendering with Unreal Engine

Maya Basics

To get started with our tutorials, begin with the Maya Basics videos below, which offer a basic introduction to our most-used software; Autodesk Maya.

Introduction to Maya

Maya basics by Michael Davies. 

This playlist offers a basic introduction to the Maya interface.
https://vimeo.com/album/5389397

Maya Basics by Escape Studios
A complete introduction to 3D basics in Maya in a series of 36 short videos, recorded at Escape Studios in Maya 2016, including modelling, lighting, animation and rendering.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu7u7lQGdDyZnpwdedWEKBi9SvGTrQIOf

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 2023, follow this link.   To apply, visit the official page here.