Meet the pros
Our instructors are all professional 3D artists with experience at the very top of their field. Each combines their unique insight into the way real CG artists and studios work with a laidback teaching style that helps you learn quickly in a friendly, inclusive atmosphere.
Click on an instructor to find out more about them.
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Rick Makoul
Rick Makoul
Compositing
Compositing
Rick Makoul has a passion for all things CG and a desire to teach what he’s learned from the industry. He says that one of the neatest things he does as an instructor is to help others discover the sometimes “invisible” art of visual effects.
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Vicky McCann
Vicky McCann
VFX
VFX
Vicky’s worked on many films. Among her favorites is Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and she says she did some work simulating cloth on the dementors in Harry Potter 3: Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (which she says was pretty cool).
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Daniel Shutt
Daniel Shutt
VFX
VFX
Daniel has over 15 years’ experience in a wide variety of 3D fields from feature film FX and games graphics to TV commercials and architectural rendering.
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Davi Stein
Davi Stein
Compositing
Compositing
Davi Stein joins us as compositing tutor at Escape Studios in London bringing with her an impressive list of films in which she was Senior Compositor, including ‘The Dark Night’, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'...