Escape Studios at the 2024 BAA Awards

2024 BAA Awards

Last night the UK animation industry celebrated the winners at the biennial British Animation (BAA) Awards at London's South Bank.

A number of Escapees and current students at Escape Studios volunteered to help out on the night.  Many thanks to current students Alfie Williams, Yusuf Uddin and Escapee Oliver Gallagher, whose hard work helped make the evening a success.  

BAA Awards 2024

Escapee Oliver Gallagher and 3rd year Alfie Williams 

The BAAs are the biggest UK animation event, taking place biennially at the BFI at London's South Bank. This year the event was hosted by "German Comedy Ambassador" Henning Wehn.  You can see the list of BAA winners here.

Animation Studios
Studios in attendance included Aardman Animation, Locksmith, Blue Zoo, Disney, Nickelodeon and ILM.

Volunteers
A number of Escapees and current students volunteered to help out on the night, earning themselves free tickets to the event, plus the chance to network with industry professionals on UK animation's biggest biennial event.  

Escapees Studios

Yusuf Uddin - volunteer at the 2024 BAA awards

Many thanks to current students Alfie Williams,  Yusuf Uddin and Escapee Oliver Gallagher, who helped make the evening a success.   BAA President Helen Brunsdon said "Escape Studios students and Escapees did a lovely job - we were delighted to have them help us out on the night".

Volunteering
We strongly encourage all our students to volunteer for industry events like this one. It's a great chance to build informal connections in the industry and find out what job opportunities are out there. 

British Animation Awards 2022

The BAAs take place every two years at London's South Bank.  Two years ago the BAAs offered our students a special challenge - to animate an Ident for the Awards Ceremony at the BFI on 10 March.  To see the official BAA idents created by our talented students, follow this link.  In all our students animated around a dozen idents, which you can find here at our YouTube Channel.  

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