PR6001 Studio Project Starts 18 Sept 2023

Our third year animation & vfx students will arrive at our new Greenwich Campus on 18th September 2023.  

One of the first modules they will tackle is PR6001; a Studio Project module worth 60 Credits and which runs for the whole academic year.  In PR6001 our animation and vfx students work together in teams to create short films - winning many festival awards.

Students collaborate to work together to a defined brief, designed as closely as possible to simulate working on a live client project. 

The Studio Project Module is broken up into two projects; the first is an Unreal Engine Project, the second is the VFX Project.  To see some examples of award-winning project work, check out Kiwi's Dream, BoxBots, Little Gestures,  Home Sweet Home and Jerich0.

Studio Project 1: Unreal Engine Project - September 2023
For our animation students, Studio Project 1 - the Unreal Engine Project - starts in September 2023.  In the Unreal Engine Project, animation students create professional-quality animation, using the Unreal Engine pipeline, which utilises real-time rendering. 

Unreal Engine Project - Real-Time Rendering

 Unreal Engine

Rendering in real time has become a major priority for many of our industry partners, such as Blue Zoo, saving time in post-production and permitting resources to be more efficiently deployed elsewhere in the pipeline.

Malloe and Minuet

Successful Unreal Engine projects include Malloe and Minuet.   Both Malloe and Minuet have won multiple festival awards. 

 Minuet - Final year animated short film - Escape Studios from Aaron Hopwood on Vimeo.

Studio Project 2: VFX project. 

In this group project, which starts in January 2024, animation students work alongside VFX students, both 3D and 2D, to create professional-quality 3D animation, such as the short film Jerich0 below, which has won multiple awards: it was selected for the BFI London Film Festival, and was also short-listed for a student BAFTA.


Jericho - VFX Short Film from Matthew Wight on Vimeo.
 

VFX Project - 10 Weeks

"Malloe" has won multiple awards

The VFX project runs for approximately 12 weeks; the films are usually around 90 seconds long. 

Teamwork
The third year of animation at Escape Studios focuses on students working together in teams to create original content, industry-quality work, to formal deadlines.

Tutors

To see who teaches the Third Year at Escape Studios, see this blog post.

Third year Animation and VFX tutors

PR6001 is taught by our third year animation and VFX tutors, all of who have extensive experience of working in industry:

• Paul Harrison
• Sokratis Synitos
• Sagar Rathod
• Clement Gharini

Vimeo Channel

Vimeo Tutorial Channel

In addition, students have access to our large and growing range of tutorials at our Vimeo Channel, allowing them to learn online and at their own convenience. 

More Information
To see how undergraduate studies at Escape Studios are structured, follow the links below:

• First year at Escape Studios. 
• Second year at Escape Studios.
• Third Year at Escape Studios
• Fourth year at Escape Studios.

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.