Our background

Escape Studios is one of the UK’s leading animation, games and VFX schools, supplying the industry with studio-ready talent since 2002. Our courses are designed and delivered with industry experts within a welcoming, close-knit and successful community.

Our world-class industry partners include Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, DNEG, Milk VFX, Creative Assembly, Cinesite and Blue Zoo. Through our partnership with Epic Games, we were the UK’s first Unreal Authorized Training Center and are an Unreal Engine Academic Partner. Since 2024, we are a Toon Boom Harmony Authorised Training Center.

Approved and endorsed internationally as a Rookies and Houdini certified school, we are an award-winning institution with both our students and alumni (Escapees) taking the creative industry by storm with their projects.

Based in London, we’re close to some of the world’s biggest studios. Our campus is in the heart of London’s Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula, with amazing views of the River Thames and Canary Wharf.

Escape Studios Showreel

Our courses

Designed, developed and delivered with industry. We offer undergraduate degrees, postgraduate masters and short courses that specialise in animation, games, visual effects (VFX), concept art and motion graphics.

We work with a range of world-class industry partners, including the likes of Blue Zoo, Creative Assembly, DNEG, Industrial Light & Magic and MPC. They’re central to the way we’re run; from the curriculum we teach and how it’s delivered, to special events, scholarships and industry feedback on student work.

Our industry-experienced tutors are experts in their fields, including certified trainers for Unreal Engine, Autodesk and Houdini. They’ve worked at studios such as Walt Disney, EA and Framestore, on credits including Doctor Strange and Bond: Spectre.

Shaping studio-ready graduates

Throughout your studies, our industry-expert tutors prep our students for life after graduating through career-building opportunities such as Escapeverse Live, our annual Student Showcase, mock interviews, one-to-one coaching, CV workshops, showreel clinics and industry challenges.

Our Escapees have gone on to work in BAFTA and Oscar nominated projects such as Dune, Avengers: Infinity War, Stranger Things, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted 2.

Recent data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency indicates that 85% of full-time undergraduate students from Escape Studios who graduated in 2021/2022 are employed, with 82% of those holding highly skilled graduate-level positions.

Source: Graduate Outcomes 2021/22 survey results published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). HESA open data is published under the (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Student life

Student life at Escape Studios is supportive, fun and memorable! With the help of our Student Experience team, Studio Assistants and the Escape Student Association (ESA), there are plenty of creative events and societies where you can explore your passion, deepen your community and get to know North Greenwich! At Escape, you can expect events such as:

• Our ‘An Evening With...’ series - hear from industry professionals about the behind-the-scenes of their latest projects
• Seasonal parties such as our Halloween bash, Christmas party and end of year summer party
• Student societies like Bouldering, Tabletop Gaming, Football and Drawing Club
• The annual Student Showcase, this year held at the Vue Cinema in London’s famous Leicester Square, where our final-year students present their projects to industry professionals
• Escapeverse Live, our annual conference where people from all over within the creative industries get together to share exclusive behind-the-scenes knowledge and professional advice
• And of course, the graduation ceremony held in London!

Our accommodation

There are many accommodation options to live a short journey away from Escape Studios. You can find out more and browse your options on our Accommodation and Commuting page./a> We’re also partnered with University of London Housing Services who offer free support to our students and offer holders.

School and college Outreach

Our outreach team travel all over the UK working with schools and colleges to raise awareness of careers in the creative industries. Whether it’s a curated workshop, a masterclass or a specialised talk, we’d love to come down to your school and talk everything Escape Studios!

You can contact the team at [email protected]

Events

We host plenty of events throughout the year to give students a taste of what studying at Escape Studios is like.

Open Days

Open days are a great way for you to find out more about our courses, dive into the discipline that interests you the most, meet your future tutors and ask all your burning questions!

Taster Days

Taster Days are more hands-on, to get to know what student life will be like. You’ll be in classroom sessions designed to teach you all about your chosen discipline and the industry software you’ll be learning and mastering.

Campus Tours

Can’t make an open day or taster day? No worries! Our campus tours are a great way for you to learn about Escape Studios with your own private tour with an applicant advisor.

Meet the Masters

Our meet the masters is a regular webinar series, where you can meet people who’ve mastered their craft in the creative industries. You’ll get to hear their journey to their chosen career in a special one-hour webinar.

Saturday Club

Aimed towards 13–16-year-olds, Saturday Club is a publicly funded programme which aims to involve younger children in creative subjects. This is a great way to raise awareness of creative subjects and careers they can go into.