Put your title at the front of your film Here at Escape Studios we make a lot of short films, many of which go on to win festival awards.  Y...

Short films need posters (also known as "One Sheets"), and posters need taglines. A great tagline encapsulates what the film is ab...

Don't forget to credit the writer  The screen credit most commonly neglected by our student filmmakers is that of writer. Why should thi...

Get your screen credits right Screen Credits are important to get right.  Don't leave people out, and don't mis-spell their names. M...

Father's Blade For our Animation and VFX students at Escape Studios, creating multiple short films in a limited timeframe is a powerful ...

What is the Rule of Thirds?  It is a "rule of thumb" for composing visual images.  The Rule of Thirds proposes that an image shoul...

CGI Aircraft You may have noticed a recent trend: filmmakers claiming that they shot everything "practical" and "on camera...

What comes Next ? So you've pitched a project at Escape Studios and - hurrah! - your project got selected.  What happens next? Generall...

For all our students storyboarding their short films we're recommending the video above by Russell Hasenauer titled "Storyboarding...

60-90 Second Challenge Here at Escape Studios we're announcing "The 60-90 Second Challenge" for all our students. The Challen...

What is Grammelot? And why do animators need it? Sometimes you want your characters to speak, but what they are actually saying isn't ...

  What are the key creative roles on a short animated film? Or, simply put, what are the jobs that absolutely have to get done in order to f...

artofthetitle.com Part of making any film is thinking about titles, and typography.  A good title sets the tone and style for the forthcomin...

A sound designer at work Animators need sound design. If you're working on a short film, sound design is a necessary part of the animati...

  Above is a short video on How to Make a Short Animated Film, recorded a few years ago, and the first step in a long series of videos and b...

One question that animators often ask when making a short film, or compiling their demo reel, is where to get Royalty Free Music - either fo...

Low poly spider "Raa" animated by Alex Southcombe There are many many free rigs and sets now available to students on an education...

" Alma"  is the first fully motion capture CG short film created at Escape Studios .  In this video above, the key members of the ...

Original music composition helps to lift our student films to a professional level, as our students learn to collaborate with composers and ...

Jerich0 - excellent shot continuity Animators working on short film projects can easily get tunnel vision - just focusing on their own ...