Practical Information

When an artist/project has been accepted to the Open Workshop, along with an approved budget and production schedule, the Open Workshop provides:

• Studio space (out of approximately 500 square meters, plus access to a full music studio)
• All necessary materials and equipment, with a quite wide range of possibilities, from any digital production set-up to experimental stop-motion
• Housing for the resident artist/project leader and crew if necessary (usually very simple military-style shared housing in one of the Kaserne barracks, less than 100 meters from The Animation Workshop)
• Production supervision and planning, when necessary line production
• Professional consulting, in any necessary form, on the project
• Monthly project meetings, where new and current resident artists gather to give progress updates and gather feedback on their projects or pitch new projects
• Maybe most importantly, live access to The Animation Workshop’s vast network of national and international guest professionals, which constantly flows and pulses through the school

In certain cases:

• Salaries for crew members

In the case of projects produced externally by young studios from North- and Mid-Jutland who are applying for financial support:

• A cash “work grant” or salaries for crew members, which would then be Danish young talents

In the case of larger-scale projects, after the development phase at the Open Workshop:

• Direct and assisted connections to studios in Denmark and Europe who can take over parts of or the entire actual production
• Training, support and consultancy for further development and production funding applications

With regards to daily economy, the Open Workshop does NOT provide living money or any type of personal cash for its resident artists. We do however provide them with ample opportunities for paid work around the school and the region, such as teaching, project supervision, various animation jobs, consulting and many more.