Studio Visit to Framestore 22 May 2026

Escape Studios visit to Framestore

We're delighted to announce a new studio visit to the London VFX house Framestore for our second year undergraduate animation students. 

This studio visit has been co-ordinated with Escapee Ana Erbasu who studied the Art of Computer Animation at Escape Studios, graduating Master of Arts, and went on to join Framestore as an animator. 

The studio visit takes place on Friday 22 May from 11am to 2pm at 28 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LB. 

Escape Studios 2027 Undergraduate Prospectus

Our brand-new Undergraduate Prospectus for 2027 is here.  Download your copy of interactive guide or grab a physical copy at our upcoming fairs and events. 

The Escape Studios Undergraduate Prospectus explores our courses, outlines careers in the creative industries, and shows the pathways into those careers. 

The Escape Studios Undergraduate Prospectus is free to download. You can find it here:  https://bit.ly/4ui1vw1

Tech, Hardware & Software at Escape Studios

Escape Studios VPN

What Hardware & Software do we use at Escape Studios? To get started, take a look at our official "What Hardware Do You Need" page, which you can find here.  We also have a handy page on tips for buying a laptop for home use.  

There is also a page on hardware in our classrooms, which you can find here.  You can also find out how to use the Escape Studios VPN (Virtual Private Network), which allows enrolled students to connect to our computers from home. 

Don't forget that a lot of theSoftware we use at Escape Studios can be downloaded at home for free.  For example, Autodesk Maya offers free licenses to enrolled students.  The open source software Blender is also free to download, and extremely versatile. 

Our 2D animation students can use Toonboom Harmony and TV Paint at Escape Studios, and also have access to discounted rates for home use. 

What Escape Studios Means to Us: Student Stories

What Escape Studios Means to Us: Student Stories from Escape Studios' students. If you're think of applying for any of our courses, watch the video above to get an idea of the student experience at Escape Studios.

Escape Studios UG Term Dates 2025-26

Our undergraduate term dates for the academic year starting in September 2025 have been published - you can see the dates on the left or download the full PDF here.

Enrolment for our new undergraduate students starts on Monday 8th September; Welcome Week starts on Monday 15th September, and formal teaching begins on Monday 22nd September.  As always, we will extend a warm welcome to all our new students this September.

Welcome To Our New International MA Students

Welcome to our new International Students

Escape Studios is delighted to welcome our new international students.  In 2024 we were able toannounce that - for the first time since Brexit - we can now sponsor international students to join our programmes on student visas. 

This comes in time for the launch of a number of brand-new courses starting in September 2025, including our new MA in Motion Graphics.

Why We Make Multiple Short Films

Father's Blade

For our Animation and VFX students at Escape Studios, creating multiple short films in a limited timeframe is a powerful way to develop skills, discover unique visual styles, and build a portfolio of polished work.  

While a longer year-long project might seem like an ideal opportunity to polish one film to perfection, here is why producing several short films can be a much more valuable learning experience:

Escape Studios International Student Guide

International Student Guide

This September Escape studios welcomed our first new international students since Brexit. 

Escape Studios recently received our UKVI Licence, meaning that we are now able to sponsor international students to study with us on student visas.

Now that we are once again in a position to open our doors to students from overseas, we have launched our new International Student Guide to answer questions about studying at Escape Studios, with all the information international students need in one place.

Visit our website and fill in the form for access to our International Student Guide.

Today is Graduation Day at Escape Studios

Today is Graduation Day at Escape Studios. This year's Graduation Ceremony takes place today, Monday 11th November 2024 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster at 4pm.  

On Graduation Day we welcome all our graduating students for the graduation ceremony and for the reception afterwards. 

The Escape Studios Graduation Ceremony is a formal occasion for our Escapees to receive their degrees from Escape Studios - and to celebrate their achievements after many years of hard work. 

Our Escapees have produced over 100 short films and won over 500 hundred festival awards. 

What's The Point of Winning Festival Awards?

Here at Escape Studios our student film-makers have won hundreds of festival awards - more than 500 over the past decade.  But what's the point of it all?  Do awards make a difference? 

At Escape Studios we train Studio-Ready Talent, teaching artists to work in teams and produce professional-quality work, simulating as closely as possible the realities of a studio environment. 

Festival awards are a recognition that the work produced by our students is of professional quality.  Awards also help to burnish our students' IMDB profiles - an important first step in winning recognition in our industry. 

New Coventry Marking Process at Escape Studios

Our Degrees are Validated by The University of Coventry

Since September 2024 our undergraduate degrees at Escape Studios have been validated by the University of Coventry, rather than by the University of Kent.  

With this change of oversight comes changes to the way we mark undergraduate work; the main change being to simplify our marking systems.  

Where's my Classroom at Escape Studios?

Classroom Guide at Escape Studios

Where's my classroom? As Escape Studios expands, it gets harder to know where all our classrooms are located. 

To see where you are studying, see the map on the left, which shows which floor each classroom is on - and never get lost again. 

We moved into our new North Greenwich Campus in the summer of 2023, located in located in the North Greenwich Peninsula, right next to The O2, in the Design District.

Later, in the summer of 2024 we expanded into the Sixth Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, to house our growing student community. 

We're Expanding: Sixth Floor at 6 Mitre Passage Open

Welcome to the Sixth Floor at Escape Studios

Escape Studios is expanding - our brand new 6th Floor is now open for study.  This week we welcomed our new students to our newly expanded location here in North Greenwich. 

6 Mitre Passage, the new home of Escape Studios, first opened its doors to our students in September 2023.  Our new campus located in the North Greenwich Peninsula, right next to The O2, in the Design District. 

Welcome to Our New Students!

We're extending a warm welcome to our new undergraduate students at Escape Studios. Undergraduate teaching starts on today - Monday 23rd September.  You can see the full 2024-25 term dates here.   

Classes take place at our Greenwich Campus at 6 Mitre Passage SE10. 
  
Core Textbook - The Animator's Survival Kit

We recommend that all our animation students buy a copy of  The Animator's Survival Kit, by Richard Williams; now the standard textbook for animators and easily the most comprehensive book available for learning animation.

We have many copies in the Animation Library here at Escape Studios (we also have many other books on animation and digital film-making), but they are often out on loan so it's a good idea to get your own copy.

What is "The Escapeverse"?

The "Escapeverse"

What is "The Escapeverse"? The Escapeverse is the Escape Studios universe - the ecosystem in which we teach, recruit, and work with industry to deliver the highest possible quality of education in the fields of animation, games and visual effects. 

Our tutors come from industry, ensuring that they understand not just the theory behind their craft but also the practical day-to-day reality of surviving in industry.  Many of our tutors are themselves former Escapees, so they understand what we do.

Escape Studios UG Term Dates for 2024-25

Our undergraduate term dates for the academic year starting in September 2024 have been published - you can see the dates on the left or download the full PDF here.

Enrolment for our new undergraduate students starts on Monday 9th September; Welcome Week starts on Monday 16th September, and formal teaching begins on Monday 23rd September.  As always, we will extend a warm welcome to all our new Animation, VFX and Games students this September.

Graduation Day 11 November 2024 - Save The Date

Graduation Day - 11 Nov 2024 at the QE2 Centre

Save the Date! Escape Studios' Graduation Day is back this November.  This year's Graduation Ceremony takes place on Monday 11th November 2024 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster.  On Graduation Day we welcome all our graduating students for the graduation ceremony and for the reception afterwards. 

Why Escape Studios is Like a Gym

Monty in the Gym by Sam Baker

Escape Studios' Head of Creative Technology Michael Davies likes to say that studying at Escape Studios is like joining a gym. 

Joining a gym won't make you fit, but regular use of the equipment will.  The same principle applies at Escape Studios, where we offer a system of blended learning, a mixture of classroom teaching and also self study using our video tutorials, available exclusively for our students. We call this "The Escape Method".

La Salle Exchange Programme Returns For 2025

Ramon Llull University, Barcelona

Escape Studios is delighted to announce the return of our Exchange Programme with La Salle, part of the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Catalonia.

La Salle offers degrees in Digital Arts and Animation, a perfect fit with our courses at Escape Studios.  The Exchange will take place in the Spring of 2025, and we'll be looking for expressions of interest from our first year undergraduate students in the next few weeks. 

Since 2021 a number of Escape students have travelled to La Salle to study, and a similar number have come to Escape Studios, studying the Art of Computer Animation, Games and Visual Effects.

The La Salle Exchange Programme is a welcome opportunity for our students to study overseas in one of Europe's most beautiful cities. 

The Animation & VFX Course at La Salle is taught in Catalan, Spanish - and (of course) English. 

Escape Studios Visits Blue Bolt VFX

Escape visits Blue Bolt in Victoria, London

Escape Studios' students were delighted to visit VFX house Blue Bolt this past week. 

Blue Bolt are a cutting-edge VFX house based in London, Victoria.  The studio visit was led by Escape Studios' Talent Development Manager Will Hughes, who met Blue Bolt VFX Supervisor Richard Frazer, as well of Head of 3D Nicholas Birmingham and 3D artists Amandeep Kukreja (a fellow Escapee) and Alex Charilaou.