Escape Studios
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Escape Studios is one of the UK's leading animation, games and VFX schools training professionals and students in the creative industries. Its main campus is situated in North Greenwich, London, offering short courses and degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Escape Studios' primary offering includes study programmes in Visual Effects (VFX), Game Art, Game Design, Concept Art, Programming, Animation, Motion Graphics and Technical Art. Since the foundation of Escape Studios in 2002, more than 5,000 students1 (dubbed Escapees) have passed through its doors, moving into jobs in the creative industries.
Escape Studios is one of the UK's leading animation, games and VFX schools training professionals and students in the creative industries. Its main campus is situated in North Greenwich, London, offering short courses and degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Escape Studios' primary offering includes study programmes in Visual Effects (VFX), Game Art, Game Design, Concept Art, Programming, Animation, Motion Graphics and Technical Art. Since the foundation of Escape Studios in 2002, more than 5,000 students (dubbed Escapees) have passed through its doors, moving into jobs in the creative industries.
Industry Partnerships
Industry partners include Atomhawk, Bild Studios, Black Kite, BlueBolt, Blue Zoo, Boulder Media, Cinesite, Climax, Creative Assembly, DBLG, DNEG, DNEG Animation, Electric Square, Electric Theatre Collective, Epic Games, Framestore, Fudge Animation, Goodbye Kansas, ILM, Milk, Outpost VFX, Passion Pictures, Peerless, Pixomondo, Playground Games, Rise, Rebellion, State of Play, The Boundary,The Third Floor, Time Based Arts, Territory Studio and Union VFX. In 2012 Escape Studios launched the first VFX Festival in London, in partnership with MPC, Framestore and Cinesite. which was reimagined into Escapeverse Live in 2025. Escapeverse Live is free festival of online events showcasing projects and talent across the VFX, Games, Animation and Technology industries. Escape Studios participates in the National Saturday Club, an outreach program that aims to help students from diverse backgrounds gain access to the creative industries. It also co-operates with ScreenSkills to offer courses aimed at under-represented groups such as women and minorities. In 2025 Escape Studios announced a new undergraduate degree in comics and visual storytelling developed in collaboration with Comic Book UK. Escape Studios develops all of its programmes with industry input using a unique Degree Concept Team approach which brings together academics, industry and students to develop and review programmes to ensure they are aligned to the skilled needed in the workplace.
Awards
Students from Escape Studios have won a number of awards. The short film Home Sweet Home, directed by Maria Robertson, won Best Student Animation at the 2019 British Animation Film Festival. The short film Jericho was short-listed for a student BAFTA in 2019.
References
The British film and television industries: Decline or Opportunity? Published by The Stationery Office, 24 January 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2018
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