"End of The Line" Wins Best Super Short Award

"End of The Line" wins "Best Super Short" at London Awards

Congratulations to the makers of "End of The Line" - the short animated film created at Escape Studios, which has won "Best Super Short Film" at the London Movie Awards.

Directed by Eren Arnold and produced by Zoe Walker,  End of The Line tells the story of an inebriated passenger who must confront his inner demons on a night train.  This is its third festival award.

End of The Line

"End of The Line" is the final film created by our graduating class of animation students at Escape Studios.  This is its third festival award.  You can watch End of The Line below:

End of The Line

End of The Line

End of The Line is a short film created by our graduating class of animation students, their final third year group project.  The animation pipeline employed motion capture techniques, supervised by Clement Gharini using the XSens MoCap system.  Editing was done in Premiere Pro, rendering was in Unreal Engine. 

Credits: 

• Eren Arnold - Director, Cinematographer, 2D Artist, Animator 
• Zoe Walker -  Producer, Animator 
• Christopher Marsden-Carleton - Editor, Sound Designer & Animator 
• Wiktor Brodowski - Technical Pipeline Director, Mocap Actor and Animator 
• Mehdy Alaoui - 2D and 3D Artist, Sound Designer
• Kiran James - Shader Artist, Animator 
• Guang Quan Thor - Texture Artist, Animator 
• Giorgos Konstantinou - Animator 

Escape Tutors
End of The Line was overseen by animation tutors Paul Harrison and Steven Lall.

Thanks 

Many thanks to our industry guests Will Lloyd-Cook from Blue Zoo and Juani Guiraldes from ILM for their generous support and feedback. 

Festival Success

End of The Line has won:

• Best Super Short Film at the London Movie Awards
• Best Student Short at the Makizhmithran Film Festival
• Best VFX at Future of Film Awards

Motion Capture Resources at Escape Studios

XSens MoCap System

To see more about motion capture at Escape Studios, follow the links below:

• Motion Capture Tutorials at Vimeo
• Simone Costa MoCap Animator at ILM
• Amedeo Beretta MoCap Webinar
• MoCap Comes to Escape Studios
• MoCap Retargeting with Amedeo Beretta
• MoCap Cleanup with Steve Lall
• Award winning "Alma" - the First MoCap Short Made at Escape Studios

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