Parkour Founder Sebastien Foucan is Back

Sebastien Foucan in Casino Royale 

We're delighted to welcome back Parkour founder Sebastien Foucan to Escape Studios tomorrow Friday 24 November.

Sebastien Foucan will talking to our third year animation students about what makes a great action scene. How does an animator go about choosing the right action for the right circumstance?

Sebastien Foucan is the founder of the Foucan Academy and also one of the founders of the Parkour Movement, the athletic training discipline in which practitioners move in the most fluid way possible.

"Spidey Swing" by Giorgos Konstantinou

Check out the "Spidey" parkour animation above by Escape Studios third year animation student Giorgos Konstaninou.  Giorgos has been working on a number of animation exercises over the past year, as well as directing the multiple-award-winning short "Papercut", which has enjoyed considerable festival success.  Giorgos' animation displays a growing mastery of locomotion and mechanics, as well as cinematography, graphic design, sound design and comic timing. 

Sebastien Foucan Visits Escape Studios

Sebastien Foucan in Casino Royale 

We're delighted to welcome back Parkour founder Sebastien Foucan to Escape Studios.

Sebastien Foucan was talking to our third year animation students this week about what makes a great action scene. How does an animator go about choosing the right action for the right circumstance?

Sebastien Foucan is the founder of the Foucan Academy and also one of the founders of the Parkour Movement, the athletic training discipline in which practitioners move in the most fluid way possible.

Sebastien Foucan Teaches at Escape Studios

Sebastien Foucan

We're delighted to welcome Parkour founder Sebastien Foucan to Escape Studios on Monday 14 March at 10am.

Sebastien Foucan will be talking to our third year animation students about what makes a great action scene. How does an animator go about choosing the right action for the right circumstance?

Sebastien Foucan is the founder of the Foucan Academy and also one of the founders of the Parkour Movement, the athletic training discipline in which practitioners move in the most fluid way possible.

Parkour Tutorial with Paloma Zhu

We've uploaded a new parkour animation tutorial to our expanding Vimeo channel; this time a parkour animation shot by Paloma Zhu; you can find it here.

The shot was originally animated by Paloma on the short film "Street Ratz", which was nominated for Best Trailer at the Assurdo Film Festival.  In this tutorial, Paloma shows how she created live action reference clips and edited them together to block out her animation, ensuring realism, accuracy and believability.