Escape Studios
Escape Studioswas founded in April 2002 and is Europe’s premier visual effects academy with 13 years experience in creating world-class, studio-ready talent. Based in Shepherds Bush, London UK, Escape offers undergraduate, postgraduate and short courses in Visual Effects (VFX), Game Art, Animation and Motion Graphics. Escape Studios’ industry partners include, Framestore, The Mill, MPC, Electric Theatre Collective, Jellyfish Pictures, Bluebolt, Cinesite, DNeg and Milk.
Courses at Escape Studios
Escape Studios offers full-time and part-time courses designed to take complete beginners to the point where they are able to perform at an industry entry-level.
Undergraduate:
- BA/MArt The Art of Animation (Integrated Masters)
- BA/MArt The Art of Video Games (Integrated Masters)
- BA/MArt The Art of Visual Effects (Integrated Masters)
Postgraduate:
Short Courses:
- Animation (12 weeks)
- Storyboarding (Evening - 8 weeks)
- Motion Graphics (3 weeks)
- Motion Graphics (Evening - 12 weeks)
- 360 VR - From Shoot to Headset (1 week)
- Cinematography and Filmmaking for Visual Effects (VFX) (1 week)
- Cinematography and Filmmaking for Visual Effects (VFX) (1 week)
- VFX On-Set Supervision: A Practical and Theoretical Approach
- Video Games Art Production (12 weeks)
- Video Games Art and Effects Production (18 weeks)
- Compositing for VFX (12 weeks)
- Compositing for VFX (Evening - 20 weeks)
- Advanced Compositing for VFX (18 weeks)
- 3D Foundation (Evening - 30 weeks)
- 3D for VFX (12 weeks)
- Advanced 3D for VFX (18 weeks)
- Camera Tracking (1 week)
- Camera Tracking (Evening - 5 weeks)
- Introduction to Houdini (1 week)
- Introduction to Houdini (Evening - 5 weeks)
- Houdini - Dynamics (1 week)
- Houdini Dynamics (Evening - 5 weeks)
- Houdini - Tools and Pipelines (1 week)
- Houdini - Tools and Pipelines (Evening - 5 weeks)
Tutors/Instructors
All of the tutors at Escape Studios have worked in the industry and have been hand-picked from successful studios and have many years of professional productions experience. The tutors include:
- Head of Animation - Alex Williams
- Head of Games - Simon Fenton
- Head of 3D - Mark Spevick
- Head of 2D - Davi Stein
- Head of Motion Graphics - JM Blay
- 3D Tutor - Daniel Shutt
- Compositing Tutor - Allar Kaasik
- Cinematography Tutor - Clement Gharini