Meet Your Tutors - Jonathan McFall

Jonathan McFall

Meet Your Tutors - Industry Veteran Jonathan McFall teaches both our Concept Art Evening Class at Escape Studios and also our Evening Class in Character Creation. 

Concept Art and Character Creation are part-time evening classes, designed to fit around jobs and families, focused on preparing our students for entry-level jobs in the creative industries.

Jonathan McFall is a veteran VFX artist with experience on multiple VFX hits such as Immortals, Men in Black 3, Harry Potter and Wrath of The Titans.  Jonathan is a cg generalist, bringing a wealth of knowledge and software skills to his evening classes. 

Concept Art Evening Class

Concept Art is of the most competitive parts of our industry, requiring a broad skillset of 2D and 3D talents.  It's also one of the interesting places to be, close to the director and the production designer, helping to determine the look and feel of a production.

Concept artists can help visual effects studios sell their services, dazzling clients with beautiful artwork and helping to land big VFX contracts. 

When
Concept Art Evening Class starts on 10th January 2024. Character Creation Evening Class starts on 8 January 2024.  Both classes are aimed at training students for entry-level jobs in industry. 

Tutor
The Concept Art course is taught by Jonathan McFall

Concept Art by Jonathan McFall

, veteran of the Harry Potter series, Men in Black 3, and Immortals. 

You can see Jonathan McFall's IMDB page here, and also see his personal website here, along with samples of his excellent work.

What's involved?

Being a concept artist involves a broad range of skills, such as 3D software, 2D software, drawing and painting.  

Jonathan will introduce students to a wide variety of techniques, showing students how to achieve

Artwork by Jonathan McFall

strong results with a wide variety of different approaches. Every shot is different, and part of the skill is knowing how to get the best result in the shortest amount of time.

How to apply
Click here to find the official course page.

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, follow this link.  To apply, visit the offical page here.