Escape Blog » CG Whiz http://www.escapestudios.com/blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006-2008 marketing@escapestudios.com (Escape Studios) marketing@escapestudios.com (Escape Studios) posts 1440 vfx, film, training, jobs, advice Providing the computer graphics industry with the best training, technology and talent in the world. Just another WordPress weblog Escape Studios Escape Studios marketing@escapestudios.com No no http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/wp-content/themes/escape/images/ESC_Logo_sm.gif Escape Blog http://www.escapestudios.com/blog 144 144 CG Whiz Awards video http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-awards-video/ http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-awards-video/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:03:16 +0000 Isabelle Duarte http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/?p=858 Regular readers of the blog will know that last week we had the awards ceremony of the CG Whiz competition. We managed to grab the three winners and some of the judges, including Steve Venning from The Mill, to film their views on the competition. We think everyone had a great time, and over the next few months we’re hoping to have blog posts from Adam Droy, the overall winner, and runners up Ronan McMeel and Marco Barrato, to see how the competition prizes have helped them break into the CG industry.


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Well done to all who entered – we were astounded by the standard of the entries. For all those of you inspired by the entries keep an eye out for next year’s competition, and the chance to win another potentially career transforming prize.

]]> http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-awards-video/feed/ 5 Announcing The Winners of the CG Whiz Competition… http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-competition-winners/ http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-competition-winners/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:42:07 +0000 Isabelle Duarte http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/?p=773 Congratulations to all the finalists of our CG Whiz competition. We had a great time at the Reveal Event last night, meeting the future stars of the CG industry. As we’ve said before, we were overwhelmed by the sheer number and quality of the entries we’ve received.

It’s clear that there’s a lot of talent out there, but there could only be one winner – Adam Droy (spikeycactus)!

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Adam excelled across the board. His showreel highlighted his creative flair whilst demonstrating a sound understanding of the techniques involved. We’re very much looking forward to Adam studying with us at Escape next year, and wish him the best of luck during his work placement at The Mill.

The two runners up should also be commended, having fought off stiff competition from over 130 entrants.

Ronan McMeel’s (MrMeel) showreel earned him the runners up position, impressing the judges with his creativity and incorporating a storyline throughout his work.

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Marco Baratto (smileandwave1987) also wowed the judges with a technically sound showreel – inspired by the “HP Hand” commercial.

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Ronan and Marco – we hope you enjoy Escape Studios’ online courses and exclusive tour of The Mill.

For those of you that missed out this year, or didn’t get around to entering, don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for information on next year’s competition. You’ll hear about it here first.

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Escape Studios and The Mill are delighted to announce the shortlist of our CG Whiz competition. We’re astounded by both the level of interest and the standard of entries: we’ve had 136 entries, whilst the videos have received over 8,300 views!

The shortlist (in no particular order) is:

The shortlisted entries beat stiff competition and will now go forward for a chance to win the top prize of a course at Escape Studios followed by work placement with The Mill. Two runners-up will win online courses, and ten other runners-up will receive subscriptions to leading industry magazines Shots and 3D Artist.

The winners and runners-up will be announced on the 8th December at a prize giving event at Escape Studios.

Stephen Venning, 3D Executive Producer at The Mill, said: “We were very impressed by the sheer creativity and diversity of the entries we received from applicants around the world. It’s been extremely hard to pick the top entries so those we’ve shortlisted should be very proud of what they’ve achieved.”

The following have been specially commended by the judges:

All those listed in the ” Specially Commended” list are invited to contact Escape Studios in the coming days. Your entries have attracted our attention and we would like to hear more about you.

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The judges are currently making their way through the entries and the tough decision of a final shortlist will be announced on Friday 20th November. The winners will be revealed at a get together in early December.

Keep your eyes peeled for the news, you’ll read it here first.

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Anyone who would like feedback should get in touch, letting us know the name of their entry and an email address. We’ll be announcing the winners soon, so keep an eye out.

]]> http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/cg-whiz-update/feed/ 0 Last call for entries http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/last-call-for-entries/ http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/last-call-for-entries/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:01:40 +0000 Isabelle Duarte http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/?p=423 We’re almost at the end! The CG Whiz competition ends at midnight tonight, so if you’re going to enter act now. We’ve had a tremendous response so far, with over 125 entries posted here.

To enter, all you need to do is post your portfolio as a response to our video. As a reminder, the winner of CG Whiz will get a place on one of Escape’s world class 3D training courses, plus a much-coveted work placement at Oscar-winning visual effects company The Mill. There are also two 12 month online Maya courses and a behind-the-scenes tour of The Mill on offer for the runners up, plus subscriptions to leading industry magazines 3D Artist and Shots.

What are you waiting for? Get your entries in now! We won’t count any entries posted after 00:00 31st October, so don’t waste any more time.

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Remember, the deadline is Friday 30th October, and to enter you need to post your entry to this video. Don’t leave it until the last minute, get posting now!

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Here’s a couple to give you an idea of what other people are doing:


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Inspired to enter? Enter via YouTube, by posting a video response to this clip. The competition closes on 30th October 2009 and the winner will be announced in mid November. Good luck!

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Remember, for the chance to win a place on one of our fantastic Visual Effects training courses, plus a work placement with The Mill, all you need to do is post your animation or graphic illustration portfolio as a video response to our YouTube video below by the 30th October 2009. That’s it!

Check out the entries we’ve received so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3cr8TGReI


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There’s some awesome CG talent out there, and some of these entries look like the work of professional CG artists – but please keep in mind that we can’t accept entries from the pros, we want to give others a leg-up into the world of films and visual effects.

What’s your favourite entry so far? As always we’d love to hear your feedback – either share it here on our blog or on our YouTube channel.

For full details, see the competition homepage at: www.escapestudios.com/CGWhiz

]]> http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/keep-those-entries-coming%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 Revamping of Escape Studios’ website http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/revamping-of-escape-studios%e2%80%99-website/ http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/revamping-of-escape-studios%e2%80%99-website/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:41:59 +0000 Isabelle Duarte http://www.escapestudios.com/blog/?p=304 I’m sure you’ve all seen that our website’s undergone a bit of a makeover recently. We’ve added lots more news on our latest courses, free tutorials and information on events including the launch of our fantastic competition CG Whiz.

Tell us what you think about the new design and features. Is it more user friendly and interactive? We’d love to know what you think.

You’ll see on our homepage that we’ve added links to our social media channels, so join us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.

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