The creative industries refers to a range of activities that occur within the creative economy; this can be anything from activities that relate to the likes of graphic design, photography, games, website coding, animation or compositing for VFX. At Escape Studios, we focus on VFX, Games, Animation and Motion Graphics courses, which are all designed, developed and delivered by industry, ensuring our students leave equipped with the skills required to succeed in their chosen field.

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Pixar's Aaron Hartline gave a great talk at the VFX Festival  earlier this year on the subject of creativity, titled "Turning on Your Creative Light Bulb". Aaron was here in London to mentor our short course animators, and help us reach Pixar-quality standards in our animation teaching. His talk was aimed in particular at animators, who are always looking to come up with inventive and fresh solutions to animation problems.

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How do animation students find internships and temporary placements in the industry? It's a question we get asked a lot here at Escape Studios. Jobs in the entertainment industry have always been highly competitive, and even unpaid internships can be hard to pin down. There are many ways - official jobs postings, word of mouth, rumours in the pub, personal contacts, even cold-calling - all of these can be effective ways to find an internship in the business.

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How do you start a small animation business? At Escape Studios we don't just train animators to do excellent work, we help them to turn that knowledge into a successful career. And one way of dealing with the uncertainty of being an employee in the creative industries is to start up your own business.

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How do animators break into the entertainment industry? Digital media and outlets like YouTube and Vimeo have made it easier than ever to gain exposure, but increased competition can make it seem harder than ever to get that first job in a mainstream studio.

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Our taster days are very similar to our open days but they focus on a specific subject, rather than giving you an overview of life at Escape Studios.

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Are you looking to upskill or thinking of a change in career? Open Evenings are your chance to find out more about our short course and postgraduate degrees. You’ll tour our studios, chat to our academics and find out more about what it’s like studying at Escape Studios first hand from our students and alumni.

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Last week was a busy week at Escape Studios, our short course Animation students were treated to, not one but two guest tutors. The first one was industry veteran Sydney Padua. 

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Building on the success of the 2017 BAFTA’s, VFX powerhouses Framestore and DNeg took home the 90th Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Visual Effects. The sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic was up for five nominations including: cinematography, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.

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Catarina studied our Advanced Compositing for VFX course in 2014 and now works as a Roto Prep Artist at Double Negative.

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