Escape Academy

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.

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Meet the pros
  • Rick Makoul Rick Makoul

    Rick Makoul

    Compositing

    Rick Makoul

    Rick Makoul

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    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.

  • Vicky McCann Vicky McCann

    Vicky McCann

    VFX

    Vicky McCann

    Vicky McCann

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    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).

  • Daniel Shutt Daniel Shutt

    Daniel Shutt

    VFX

    Daniel Shutt

    Daniel Shutt

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    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.

  • Davi Stein Davi Stein

    Davi Stein

    Compositing

    Davi Stein

    Davi Stein

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    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'...

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Intensive Classroom Courses

Intensive Classroom Courses

Choose an intensive Computer Animation Course, and you’ll be rewarded with a comprehensive and practical knowledge of VFX. Apply online
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Online Self-Directed Courses

Online Self-Directed Courses

Our online self directed courses offer 3D Animation Tutorials to the same quality as full-time courses. Apply online
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Online Mentored Courses

Online Mentored Courses

An online 3D course allows you to learn over the internet with one of our expert tutors - perfect if you can’t make it to our London studios to study full time
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