Simon Fenton - Pearson College London Blog

Escape Studios is now an Unreal Authorized Training Center

I am very proud to announce that Escape Studios is now an Unreal Authorized Training Center.

Virtual Reality course at Escape Studios

Virtual Reality (VR) is the illusion that we are present somewhere that we are not. it is a digital medium that allows the users to be immersed and interact in a digital constructed world.

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Sony artists mentoring our 3rd years final projects

We have been very fortunate to have material artist Elouan Harmand and environment artist Ross Williams mentor our final year student projects. They have visited Escape Studios three times to

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Gina Jackson Head of Games at the Imaginarium, gives industry talk Escape Games students.

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VR project mentored by Framestore

We were very fortunate to have Karl Woolley, Michael Cable and Taekyu Yang from Framestore mentor our 3rd year undergraduate students for a 12 week VR group project.

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The mighty Tom Harle's UV Tricks Webinar

Don’t miss our next webinar, dedicated to the use of UVs and how you can play with them in Unreal Engine. Register to watch Tom Harle, our Games VFX tutor, animate this webinar aimed at 3D artists who have a basic understanding of the Unreal Engine and want to learn a few tricks about UVs.

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Allegorithmic are coming to Escape Studios

Join us for Substance Day London, an amazing day for learning and sharing with both the community and world-famous artists. The event will feature masterclasses with some of the world’s best Substance artists from the game, VFX and animation, industrial design and architecture industries.

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The Last of London

The Last of London is an Escape Studios 2nd yr student group project

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Tom Harle on 80 Level - Quick UE4 Tips

A great article from Escape's VFX tutor Tom featured on 80 Level.

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WOW! Look at some of the features coming up in the Unreal roadmap

In class I was talking about the proliferation of Unreal as it becomes used in VFX, Arch Vis, CG animation and VR.

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Elouan Harmand, Material Artist extraordinaire

We were very lucky this week to have Material Artist Elouan Harmand from Sony's London Studio visit us to give a talk about Substance Designer and what it takes to be a Material Artist in video games.

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Escape Studios Games Showreel

Our new Games Showreel has arrived! Check it out some amazing art created by our students.

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MA Game Art students' projects

I am very excited, my Game Art MA students have worked very hard all year, they have digitally speaking, been at it hammer and tongs. This is some work from their last projects and we are the proud parents of some very cool Unreal Engine Game Environments.

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Unreal 4 Lighting Academy

The Unreal Lighting Academy is a fantastic resource and one that I point my students to on the Games Art course.