CR4002 – Creative Foundations - Craft Module

CR4002 Artwork by Ronnie Kaye

CR4002 – Creative Foundations Craft - is a 30 Credit Module taken by all of our First Year Undergraduate Students at Escape Studios.  

Creative Foundations is a Foundation Module in creativity and creative thinking.  Some software, such as Photoshop, is taught in this module, but the main focus is to explore fresh and original ideas.

CR4002 is broken down into a number of "mini modules", including Movement & Narrative, Photography & Composition, Cinematography & Lighting, Art Foundation and TRAP - (Teamwork, academic writing, and presentation skills). 

Steve Sole is Back for "Movement & Narrative"

Steven Sole

We're delighted to welcome back character designer & visual development artist Steven Sole to teach at Escape Studios.

Steven will teach our first year undergraduate students Movement & Narrative, a mini-module in which students are invited to develop their skills in creativity, design, and visual narrative, which starts on Monday 14th September. This year the module will be taught partly in the classroom, and partly online.

Steven Sole comes to us from Framestore and also from Tiger Aspect Productions, where he was Art Director on Mr Bean.  To see some of Steve's work, visit his official site.

Giles & Rupert's Prehistoric Predicament

Giles and Rupert's Prehistoric Predicament is a teaser/trailer for an original animated TV series created at Escape Studios by Toby Haslam, Denise Esposito, Louis Chevis, Cameron Haley, Joseph Dunn and Oriyarna Olaku. The project was created as part of CR4002 and PR4001, two first year modules in which students first create an original idea for a TV series, and then turn it into an animatic - a filmed version of the storyboard. In this case, Toby, Denise and their team have included the previs edit shown above, setting the bar even higher for what can be achieved in the first year at Escape.

CR4002 - Showcase - "Animation Bibles"

Soap Opera by Bruno Urzi

At the end of 2019 our first year undergraduate animation students completed the Creative Foundations Craft Module, which is a foundation course in creativity and creative thinking, taken by all our first year students, whether they are studying games, animation or VFX.

Part of the module was "Movement & Narrative", a two-week mini-module taught by character designer Steven Sole and exploring the basics of creativity, storytelling, and design, at the end of which our students pitched an idea for an original TV or web series, including a so-called "animation bible".