Here at Escape, when teaching our compositing professional class – a question that always comes up is, “is Mari available for the Mac?” It gives me great pleasure to announce that it now is!
Next Hansel & Gretel promises to be 'Pretty Insane'
If you caught Hansel and Gretel at the cinema a few months ago, you’ll probably remember it for the imaginative violence, tongue in cheek dialogue and an out of place Jeremy Renner.
3D Printing to hit the masses sooner than we think?
We do love a good Kickstarter project, and with 3D printing being all the rage of late, this one in particular caught our eye.
Watching sport is set to get a hell of a lot better - brace yourselves for bullet time!
Being a sports fan, I have been consistently impressed with improvements in viewer experience over the last few years. Technology has improved the situation of the armchair fan tenfold, making the long trip to their ground of choice at the weekend, increasingly less appealing.
Escape Tutor Paul Harrison on the Wacom Cintiq13HD
Our Escape Tutors are always on the ball when it comes to the latest tech, and a couple of weeks back my eye was caught by one of our online mentors Paul Harrison, who was sketching on his new piece of Wacom kit, the latest addition to his arsenal of tools.
Alessio Bertotti @ Pixomondo Hamburg
Escapee Alessio Bertotti answers some questions on VFX and tells us about his time at Pixomondo Hamburg.
Project Kronos!
We were contacted a few weeks back by long-time friend of Escape Studios, Haz Dulull, who has recently been signed up as a Director for feature film representation by I AM Entertainment, (nice one Haz!) and delighted us even more by announcing the release of his latest project which went online last month.
Creator of VFX Youtube channel 'deepfriedectoplasm' takes on Escape Taster Course!
Acquiring some VFX skills is a natural path for most people who are currently using all the great tools we have today for video/film production and editing. The technology has matured to the point where we (the average single graphics guy or gal) use it almost on a daily basis.
Ready, Set, Design.
Set design is a real passion of mine, and I recently found this great video on the film club website, even though I’m a 3D artist I thoroughly enjoy seeing real models
The Scouts take on Game Design!
It’s no longer just about woggles, tying knots and collecting firewood, as the Scouts of America have fully embraced the digital age with perhaps the world's first digital badge of merit!
VFX on your tablet!
Cinefex, the long standing centre of behind the scenes VFX information is now finally available on the iPad and online, check out the free copy of issue 127.
A Deadly Combination!
In this modern age, the desk of the busy designer is likely to be filled with graphics tablets, laptops and PC’s, and let’s be honest, there is such a thing as too much clutter. But hopefully when this invention hits the design world, things will change!
Lee's App Of The Week: Zombies and Trains
OK I know I talk a lot about zombies and these days the topic of a zombie apocalypse is fairly meh BUT how could I ignore an app called Zombies And Trains?! This is the latest game app from Norwegian based Dragonhead Games and it is a corker!
Snapshots of the Serengeti
After watching my favourite geek show this last weekend, (BBC's ‘Click’ – If you haven’t heard of it, sort it out!) and found myself mesmerised by this wonderful project.
A School in the Cloud
Those who watch TED talks, will know that the theme of education has been making regular appearances of late. An emerging theory is that the nurturing of children’s natural curiosity is a way to educate.
Guess Who?
Although we can’t unveil the name of the top secret industry speaker at our next Academy Tour (on the 6th of March) I insisted that we dispatch a couple of ‘Guess Who?’ Q&A’s to get your minds racing, exciting!
Science fiction concept soon to become reality!
Ever wanted to control things with your mind? Get a secret message over to your pals in a public place? If so, then the future is going to be very exciting for you.
HaZ Dulull presents: Project Kronos
We were rather happy this week to hear from an old friend of Escape HaZ Dulull, a) because he has just been appointed as director for ‘IAM entertainment’ Hollywood, which is awesome! and b) because he is promoting his second VFX heavy short, Project Kronos.
Googly Eyes
Contrary to the title of this blog post, we're not writing about these googly eyes, no, this post is about the busy week we've had technologically. HTC unveiled their latest flagship smartphone here in London, the HTC One (not to be confused with the One X, One X+, One S, One V...). Sony announced the Playstation 4, boasting some serious specs as expected, although we don’t actually know what it looks like yet.
Where the gamers at!?
