Producing for VFX Returns 23 June 2026

Producing for VFX returns on 24 March 2026

Our Evening Class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 23 June 2026.  Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). 

Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  VFX Producers and Line Producers remain a critical skills gap in industry. 

Producing VFX Evening Class Returns 24 March 2026

Producing for VFX returns on 24 March 2026

Our Evening Class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 24 March 2026.  Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). 

Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  VFX Producers and Line Producers remain a critical skills gap in industry. 

Producing for VFX is Back on 10 June 2025

Producing for VFX returns 10 June 2025

Our Evening Class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 10 June 2025.  Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). 

Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  VFX Producers and Line Producers remain a critical skills gap in industry. 

What Does a VFX Producer Do, Exactly?

VFX Producer Martin Gabriel

What Does a Visual Effects Producer Do, Exactly?  Martin Gabriel is a visual effects producer with a long list of successful feature films on his resume, including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, X-Men, The last Stand, Underdog and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Martin Gabriel also worked on the TV series Band of Brothers and The Prisoner.  Martin teaches our evening class in VFX Production at Escape Studios.  In the blog post below Martin explains what it is that VFX Producers actually do, exactly. 

Producing For VFX is Back on 5 March 2025

Producing for VFX returns 5 March 2025

Our Evening Class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 5 March 2025.  Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). 

Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  

Carine Ong Producer at Apple TV

Carine Ong

Many congratulations to Escapee Carine Ong who has joined MPC as a VFX Associate Producer.

MPC is one of the UK's longest-established VFX and animation houses; responsible for blockbuster hits such as The Lion King and The Jungle Book.

Carine  took our Evening class in 3D VFX ("VFX Foundation") at Escape Studios - joining the growing number of Escapees working in production roles across VFX, animation and games.

Producing for VFX is Back on 22nd Oct 2024

Our evening class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 22nd October 2024. Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  What does a VFX Producer actually do? Students learn the full ecosystem of VFX production, taught by veteran VFX producer Martin Gabriel. 

Alisha Huxtable Line Producer at DNEG

Alisha Huxtable

Many congratulations to Escapee Alisha Huxtable who has joined DNEG as a Line Producer.

Alisha Huxtable studied the Art of Visual Effects at Escape Studios, graduating with First Class Honours.  While at Escape, Alisha contributed to a number of VFX short films including the short film "BoxBots" (on which she served as compositing supervisor) which has won multiple festival awards. 

DNEG (formerly known as Double Negative) is one of the UK's longest-established VFX and animation houses; responsible for multiple blockbuster hits. 

Meet Your Tutors - Martin Gabriel

Martin Gabriel

Meet Your Tutors: VFX Producer Martin Gabriel teaches our evening class in Producing for Visual Effects.  Martin has worked in VFX for over twenty years, first as a VFX Coordinator and then as VFX Producer in London, Hollywood and in multiple international locations.  

Martin has experience of the process of VFX in film-making from pre-production to post, in film, television and commercials.  Martin's many movie credits include X-Men, Harry Potter, King Arthur and Tomb Raider.

Producing for VFX is Back on 29 March 2024

Our evening class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 29th March 2024. Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  What does a VFX Producer actually do? Students will learn the full ecosystem of VFX production, taught by veteran VFX producer Martin Gabriel. 

Producing for VFX is Back on 25 Oct 2022

Our evening class in Producing for VFX is back, starting on 25 October 2022. Producing for VFX is an eight week evening class, taught two nights a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-10pm). Producing for VFX is designed to give students a thorough understanding of how the VFX production pipeline works, and how to apply it in practice.  What does a VFX Producer actually do? Students will learn the full ecosystem of VFX production, taught by veteran VFX producer Martin Gabriel. 

Carine Ong VFX Associate Producer at MPC

Carine Ong

Many congratulations to Escapee Carine Ong who has joined MPC as a VFX Associate Producer.

MPC is one of the UK's longest-established VFX and animation houses; responsible for blockbuster hits such as The Lion King and The Jungle Book.

Carine  studied animation and VFX at Escape Studios, and joins a growing number of Escapees working in production roles across VFX, animation and games.

"Producing" Taster Day Tuesday 5th July at 5pm

Join us on Tuesday July 5th at 5pm for a free taster in the art of producing for animation, games and VFX.  Production teams are at the heart of all VFX and Animation projects; experienced producers are in short supply, and there is growing demand for new talent across the whole sector.

This free online taster is designed to give you an insight into the VFX industry and the production roles which are currently available as well as an overview of the course. 

Our courses in producing are designed in collaboration with our industry partners to ensure all our students learn the fundamental skills required to enter the industry.

"Producing Animation" Specialism for CR5001

One of our second year animation students recently asked me what would be involved in selecting "Producing Animation" as their chosen specialism for the second year Specialism Module CR5001. 

It's a good question, and the answer is to dig as deeply as possible into what exactly a good producer does - and then produce a detailed report, complete with bibliography, references and inline citations.  The important elements of producing such as a sample budget and production schedule should also be included.

It would also be a good idea to contact the tutors at Escape Studios who have experience of producing animation, such as veteran producer Steve Burch, and Iliana Franklin, as well as some of the many Escapees who have gone on to fill production roles at animation, vfx and games companies around the globe.

How to find them? Don't forget the awesome power of LinkedIn to reach out and connect to animation professionals.  

An Evening With...Hasraf "Haz" Dulull 25 March

Join us on Wednesday 25th March for one of our regular "Evening with..." events at Escape Studios.

The event takes place on Wednesday 25 March as we welcome Hasraf "Haz" Dulull to talk about making the transition from award-winning visual effects to directing and producing his own independent sci-fi feature films. 

Olivia Unwin Production Asstnt at Framestore

Olivia Unwin

Many congratulations to Escapee Olivia Unwin who has recently started a new position as a Production Assistant at London VFX powerhouse Framestore.

Olivia took our BA in the Art of Video Games, and specialised in producing studio projects, where our students come together in groups to mimic as closely as possible the realities of working in industry.

Chrissy Metge Teaches Producing at Escape

Chrissy Metge

We're delighted to welcome a new animation tutor to Escape Studios; animation & VFX producer Chrissy Metge will teach a class on "Producing for Animators" to our second year undergraduate animators at Escape Studios tomorrow, Thursday 7th November.

Chrissy is an experienced producer, and also creative director at Fuzzy Duckling Media and Duckling Publishing.  She has worked in the animation film and TV industry for 18 years, and has film credits on many movies, including VFX blockbusters The Hobbit, Ironman 3 and Hunger Games 2.

You can see Chrissy's full list of credits at her IMDB page here. 

Carine Ong Line Producer at Framestore

Carine Ong, Escapee

Many congratulations to Carine Ong, an Escapee who studied 3D VFX and animation, who has just become a line producer at Framestore in London.

Prior to moving to Framestore, Carine worked as a production co-ordinator at London VFX pioneer One of Us, at Double Negative, Method Studios, and also at Rushes.

In 2018 returned to Escape Studios (at one of our "Evening with..." events), and gave an excellent talk about her work on many VFX projects, including Star Wars - The Last Jedi.

Producing For VFX Returns on 5 Feb 2019

Learn from the producer of Ultramarines

Producing for visual effects is returning to Escape Studios on 5th February. This six week intensive class, supported by Access VFX, ScreenSkills and the BFI, will take place at our 190 High Holborn campus.

The course will prepare VFX producers for the challenges of pitches, budgets, spreadsheets and all the commercial knowledge that underpins our industry. And, of course, the creative side of the business - because every blockbuster project starts with a great idea.

This unique class is taught by a variety of producers including Ultramarines producer Bob Thompson, an experienced industry veteran with a long and successful track record of producing animated feature films, commercials and VFX projects.

So, what can our students expect?