Meet your tutors
Meet the Escape Studios team
They know exactly what skills and experience you'll need to kick-start your career. Best of all, they'll teach you real-world tips and tricks, as well as the latest industry software and techniques, throughout your programme of study.
Dr. Ian Palmer
Dean, Escape Studios
Dr. Ian is the Dean of Escape Studios. He is passionate about computer games and his research interests in graphics and imaging, multi-modal interfaces for computer games and intelligent game environments have meant that he has published 61 papers including his doctoral paper: REALISM: Reusable Elements for Animation using Local Integrated Simulation Model. He is also a member of the IET, IEEE Computer Society, Eurographics, ACM and SIGGRAPH. He is currently an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Bradford.
Mark Spevick
Head of 3D VFX
Davi Stein
Head of 2D VFX
Simon Fenton
Head of Games
Alex Williams
Head of Animation
Andrew Brassington
Programme Director
Francesca Adams
Storyboard Artist
Plamen Ananiev
2D Animation
Christian Avigini
Games Tutor
Adam Bennett
Motion Graphics Tutor
Amedeo Beretta
VFX and Animation Tutor
Lee Caller
Animation Tutor
Klaudija Cermak
VFX Compositing Tutor
Michael Davies
Programme Leader of Animation
Karin Mattsson
3D Animation Tutor
Clement Gharini
Cinematography Tutor
Allar Kaasik
Compositing Tutor
Jonathan McFall
Programme Leader of VFX
Nick Savy
3D Tutor
James Thompson
Python Tutor
Michael Morgan
Animation Tutor
Philip Meredith
Programme Leader of Games
Daniel Shutt
3D Tutor
Juriaan Van Linschoten
Associate Game Art Tutor
Steven Sole
Animation Tutor
Carlos Poon
3D VFX Tutor
Bob Thompson
Animation Production Tutor
Iliana Franklin
Storyboarding and Previs Tutor
The Centre for Industry Engagement Team
The Pearson College London Centre for Industry Engagement (CIE) lies at the heart of our mission to integrate the worlds of industry and academia for the mutual benefit of all our stakeholders - our students, our partners in industry and our academic community.
It aims to embody the Pearson College London mission of bridging the worlds of industry and academia for the benefit of all stakeholders in higher education. The Centre will define everything we do as a College – from designing and delivering new degree and degree apprenticeship programmes, in partnership with industry; to the creation of cutting edge research at the intersection of industry and pedagogy; to providing a forum at the heart of a FTSE100 company where leaders across industry, academia and politics can debate and discuss the key issues of the day in higher education and training.
Technology Enhanced Learning and Learning Resources Team
The teams role is to guide and inform the College’s technology enhanced learning strategy and offer training and support to staff and students at Pearson College. Their aim is to ensure that online learning embeds best practice and looks and feels as good as possible. They also offer guidance on how to teach with technology, and have high levels of expertise in using Blackboard, custom e-learning creation and multi-media asset development.