Study Environment
The Animation Workshop’s many activities are generally very international as teachers, students, course participants, artists in residence and staff members come from all over the world.
The 3D Artist course has in recent years come to include course participants from many EU countries which brings a very lively and dynamic interaction into the classroom.
The 3D Artist course takes place on The Animation Workshop campus in a classroom specially set up for the students. Everyone has his/her own work station with all the equipment needed, exactly as in a studio. Students and teachers have access to the room at all hours of the day.
A typical school day starts at 9.30 and ends at 17.30; including an hour for lunch. Mornings are usually reserved for lectures and demos prepared by the teacher, and afternoons are spent working on specific exercises and individual final projects. At the end of each module, the students will be asked to present and perhaps discuss their work in further detail in order to receive critique from class mates and teachers. It is of course expected that the students meet assignment deadlines set by the teacher. This will mean a good amount of homework during evenings and weekends, and we do as such not recommend students to take on any freelance work for the duration of the course.
After school activities at The Animation Workshop vary from week to week, but will normally entail free access to life drawing classes, various sports activities, morning dance, movie nights and TAW Talks which is a regularly recurring event during which one or more of our currently in-house teachers talk about a specific topic, show personal projects, and/or generally talk about their career. Apart from this, the student party committee regularly organizes Friday Pub Nights in the school’s very own pub (Högni) and various theme parties a few times a year. Furthermore, the students on the 3D Character Animation course traditionally organize class dinners and weekend trips to other parts of Denmark.
The 3D Artist course takes place on The Animation Workshop campus in a classroom specially set up for the students. Everyone has his/her own work station with all the equipment needed, exactly as in a studio. Students and teachers have access to the room at all hours of the day.
A typical school day starts at 9.30 and ends at 17.30; including an hour for lunch. Mornings are usually reserved for lectures and demos prepared by the teacher, and afternoons are spent working on specific exercises and individual final projects. At the end of each module, the students will be asked to present and perhaps discuss their work in further detail in order to receive critique from class mates and teachers. It is of course expected that the students meet assignment deadlines set by the teacher. This will mean a good amount of homework during evenings and weekends, and we do as such not recommend students to take on any freelance work for the duration of the course.
After school activities at The Animation Workshop vary from week to week, but will normally entail free access to life drawing classes, various sports activities, morning dance, movie nights and TAW Talks which is a regularly recurring event during which one or more of our currently in-house teachers talk about a specific topic, show personal projects, and/or generally talk about their career. Apart from this, the student party committee regularly organizes Friday Pub Nights in the school’s very own pub (Högni) and various theme parties a few times a year. Furthermore, the students on the 3D Character Animation course traditionally organize class dinners and weekend trips to other parts of Denmark.
