Unreal Engine for Film & TV Starts 29 April 2025

Our new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Film and TV starts on 29 April 2025.  Taught by industry veteran Shaun Foster MFA, this course teaches the Unreal Engine pipeline, showing how digital film-makers can render their shots in real time, rather than the many hours of render times taken by traditional ray tracing packages. To find out more follow this link: https://bit.ly/4hOhLNR

Unreal Engine for Architecture Starts 28 April 2025

Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Architecture

Our new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Architecture starts on 28 April 2025.  The course runs from 28 April until 17 June 2025; 12 evening classes over six weeks.  

Escape Studios has been an Unreal Engine Authorized Training Centre since 2020 - the first Unreal ATC in the UK. To find out more, follow this link: https://bit.ly/4hOhLNR.

Unreal Engine 5 offers capabilities that can transform the way architectural visualisation is approached and executed, speeding up the render process.  

This new Evening Class in Unreal Engine for Architecture is created specifically for architects, architectural students or people working in an art role within construction who want to add Unreal Engine to their arsenal.

Lights & Render in Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison

Lighting & Rendering in Unreal Engine with Paul Harrison

Escape Studios' Head of Animation Paul Harrison has prepared a new series of tutorials on Lighting and Rendering in Unreal Engine, available to our students at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel.

Unreal Engine renders shots in real time, allowing our students to focus their energy on animation and character performance. https://vimeo.com/showcase/10581878

Maya to Unreal Engine Pipeline with Paul Harrison

https://vimeo.com/showcase/10558978

Escape Studios' Head of Animation Paul Harrison has prepared a series of six tutorials on the Autodesk Maya to Unreal Engine pipeline, available to our students at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel.

Unreal Engine renders shots in real time, allowing our students to focus their energy on animation and character performance.

Realtime rendering is a growing part of the animation production pipeline. Whether our students are studying VFX, animation, or games, Unreal Engine offers big savings in render times.

Alex Maynard Teaches Unreal Engine 17 Jan 2023

Alex Maynard teaches Unreal Engine

Tomorrow Tuesday 17th January Escape Studios welcomes Studio Assistant Alex Maynard to introduce our second year animation students to the power of Unreal Engine. 

Realtime rendering is a growing part of the animation production pipeline. Whether our students are studying VFX, animation, or games, Unreal Engine offers big savings in render times.

"Step Up to Unreal" Free Course Starts Today

"Novem" - rendered in Unreal Engine

"Step Up to Unreal" starts today - a new free introduction to Unreal Engine at Escape Studios from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. 

The event has been made possible by ScreenSkills, and offers students the chance to take a paid work placement with some of the best VFX film and TV studios in the UK.

The event is free, and takes place from today Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. You can find out more here. 

Step Up to Unreal Engine 23-27 May 2022

Rendered in Unreal Engine at Escape Studios

We're running a new free introduction to Unreal Engine at Escape Studios from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. 

The event is made possible by ScreenSkills, and even offers the chance to take a paid work placement with some of the best VFX film and TV studios in the UK.

The event is free, and takes place from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2022. You can find out more here. 

Rise of the Engines - Real Time on 5 Dec 2021

Animation in real time Sunday 5 Dec 2021

Join Escape Studios' Michael Davies and St John Walker for a panel talk on "Animation in Real Time" hosted by the London International Animation Festival (LIAF), revealing the secrets of real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

The event is free and takes place online on Sunday 5 December 2021 at 11am.

PR6001 Studio Project Starts 20 Sept 2021

Award-winning Kiwi's Dream

Our third year animation students will soon be welcomed back to our High Holborn Campus, as we return to in-classroom teaching.  

Their first module is PR6001, The Studio Project (worth 60 Credits) which runs for the whole academic year.  It is a group module in which our animation students work together in teams to create short films - often winning festival awards.

Students collaborate to work together to a defined brief, designed as closely as possible to simulate working on a live client project. 

The Studio Project Module is broken up into two projects; the first is the VFX Project.  To see some fine examples of award-winning VFX Project work, check out Kiwi's Dream, BoxBots, Little Gestures,  Home Sweet Home and Jerich0.

Summer of Unreal Comes to an End

Our #SummerOfUnreal has come to an end; many congratulations to everyone who participated.  

We were all amazed by the quality of the group projects that were showcased last week. 

#SummerOfUnreal marks a new era for the European animation industry; in four weeks we trained over 1000 animation professionals on Unreal Engine with the help of 24 top industry trainers & presenters, and with the support from all our Escape Studios staff and European colleagues.

"Summer of Unreal" Training Begins

Our free four-week course in Unreal Engine began yesterday,  offering training in Unreal Engine for industry professionals.  The Summer of Unreal is a free, four-week boot camp created in collaboration with Epic Games, teaching artists practical real-time skills in Unreal Engine.  The event is designed and hosted by Escape Studios, the UK’s first and only Unreal Authorised Training Center. 

Free Training in Unreal Engine Starts 26 July

Summer of Unreal Engine Starts July 26

If you work in the animation or 3D CGI industry in Europe, in games, VFX, motion graphics or film & TV  (or teaching these subjects), come and join our free four-week course in Unreal Engine, starting 26 July. 

The Summer of Unreal is a free, four-week boot camp created in collaboration with Epic Games, teaching artists practical real-time skills in Unreal Engine.

The event is hosted by Escape Studios, the UK’s only Unreal Authorised Training Center. 

Michael Davies Unreal Engine Webinar 27 July

27 July Webinar with Michael Davies

On Tuesday 27th July at 6pm industry veteran and animation program leader Michael Davies will deliver a free webinar on the use of Unreal Engine, the real-time renderer that is transforming the animation and VFX industries.

In this one hour webinar Michael will utilise free online content and motion capture to show students how to use the latest tools in Unreal Engine 5 to create real-time cinematics.

Escape Studios is now an officially accredited Unreal Engine Authorised Training Centre (ATC), the only one in the UK and one of only two in Europe. 

Unreal Engine Summer at Escape Studios

Unreal Engine at Escape Studios

Why not learn the fundamentals of Unreal Engine online with Escape Studios this summer.  Our online courses in Unreal Engine have been launched in partnership with Epic Games, the creators of the software.

Unreal Engine is a real-time renderer that is changing the way that animation and VFX is working; the industry is rapidly switching from traditional (and time-intensive) ray-tracers to real-time rendering technology.  To sign up, follow this link to the official page, and register your interest. 

Win a Dell Computer in the May 11 Second Club

This month we are encouraging all our student animators enter the monthly 11 Second Club Competition. 

In May 2021 Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Engine real-time renderer, launched a special prize challenge with The 11Second Club, in association with Dell Computers.  First prize is a Dell Workstation.

Cinematography in Unreal Engine with Clem

Clement Gharini

Cinematographer Clement Gharini is currently leading classes in cinematography in Unreal Engine to all our MA students at Escape Studios.  These classes will be of special interest to students studying our MA in Storyboarding & Previsualisation. 

As Unreal Engine becomes an increasingly important visualisation tool,  not just in Games but in Animation & VFX, Clem is introducing our students to the use of cameras in Unreal Engine, demonstrating how to integrate different tools across multiple platforms. 

Learn Unreal Engine at Escape Studios

 

Learn the fundamentals of Unreal Engine online with Escape Studios.  Our new online course has been launched in partnership with Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine.  Unreal Engine is a real-time renderer that is changing the way that animation and VFX is working; the industry is switching from traditional (and time-intensive) ray-tracers to real-time technology. Come on board and join the revolution.

Edoardo Sartori Shot Creator at The Third Floor

Edoardo Sartori

Congratulations to Escape Studios student Edoardo Sartori who is now working part-time as a Shot Creator at one of the UK's leading previsualisation houses: The Third Floor.  

Edoardo is helping to previs a big budget Hollywood movie being made by one of the world's most famous directors. 

Edoardo has broken into the animation and VFX industry thanks to his extensive knowledge of real-time rendering in Unreal Engine, the rendering platform which is fast replacing traditional ray-trace technology. 

Alex Budulan Unreal Engine TD at DNEG

Alex Budulan

Many congratulations to Escapee Alex Budulan who has become an Unreal Engine Technical Director (TD) at DNEG, one of the UK's leading visual effects houses.

Unreal Engine is a growing part of the animation and VFX industry, one where new technology is driving opportunities for employment and growth.

Real time rendering is an area where the technology has shifted in the past few years, with animation and VFX houses abandoning traditional ray-tracers in favour of real time rendering.

"Unreal Fortnight" Free Training 15-26 March

Escape Studios is proud to announce "Unreal Fortnight", a new training opportunity for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine from 15-26 March.    

Escape Studios is partnering with Epic Games and ScreenSkills to create "Unreal Fortnight", a series of short training courses in Unreal Engine,  to help retrain UK film production in the latest rendering  technology. The course is free for freelancers and furloughed workers; there is a small fee for sole traders and micro-SMEs.