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

Unreal Engine Tutorials at Vimeo

We've uploaded a new series of tutorials at our Vimeo Channel on how to use the Unreal Engine rendering pipeline.

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.

Many of our short films are rendered in Unreal Engine. The short films Planet Mars, Minuet and Adam & Eve Mk II were all rendered in Unreal Engine and enjoyed festival success, winning many awards.

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.

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.

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. 

"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. 

Escape Studios Official Unreal Engine ATC

We are proud to announce that Escape Studios is now an Unreal Engine ATC (Authorized Training Center); the only one in the UK and one of only two in Europe.  We are very honoured to be selected to be part of the program and to help train people in Unreal Engine.  As well as our Short Courses, UG and Masters programs we also train companies in UE4, most recently London VFX powerhouse Framestore.  Unreal's real time rendering capabilities, Blueprint system and ease of use is not only changing the games industry but the CGI industry as a whole, helping to speed up the process of animation, previsualisation, virtual reality and architectural visualisation.

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. 

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.

"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. 

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.

Download Unreal Engine Paragon Assets Free

Paragon from Epic Games

Epic Games and Unreal Engine have released their "Paragon" online assets - free. Any student at Escape Studios who wants to use these photo-real characters in their projects can use "$12 million worth of assets" for no charge.

The online game Paragon was cancelled on March 19th 2018. Developer Epic Games (owners of Unreal Engine) announced that they would release all $12,000,000 worth of game assets for free use by anyone working with the Unreal Engine 4, via the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

The first wave of released content included 20 characters, with their respective skins, animations, VFX and dialogue, along with over 1,500 environment components.  To find the Paragon assets online, follow this link.

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. 

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. 

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 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.

Studio Project Module PR6001 Returns for 2024-25

Scene from VFX Project "Jerich0"

Our Third Year animation & vfx students are currently tackling PR6001, a Studio Project module worth 60 Credits and which runs for the whole academic year.  In PR6001 our animation and vfx students work together in teams to create short films - winning many festival awards.

Students work together in a module designed as closely as possible to simulate working on a live client brief.

 

PR6001 Studio Project Starts 18 Sept 2023

Our third year animation & vfx students will arrive at our new Greenwich Campus on 18th September 2023.  

One of the first modules they will tackle is PR6001; a Studio Project module worth 60 Credits and which runs for the whole academic year.  In PR6001 our animation and vfx students work together in teams to create short films - winning many 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 an Unreal Engine Project, the second is the VFX Project.  To see some examples of award-winning project work, check out Kiwi's Dream, BoxBots, Little Gestures,  Home Sweet Home and Jerich0.

Unreal Training Day at Escape Studios 10 Nov

We're hosing an Unreal Engine Training Day at Escape Studios on 10th November. The event is open to students and industry professionals, and the day's training costs just $50.

We have two classes running on the same day, with 25 seats per class.

Escape Studios Unreal Authorized Training Ctr

Escape Studios is proud to announce that we are now an Unreal Engine Authorized Training Center, meaning that we are now formally authorised by Epic games (makers of "Fortnite") to run training sessions for their software, Unreal Engine.

Head of Games Simon Fenton started developing the games course way back in 2008; since then it has changed beyond recognition, as has the games industry.