Discover a new badge of graduates from The Animation Workshop 2025
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“I had no idea I’d be making games for a living! I didn’t even view it as a career option back then”, says Sophie Refshauge, Computer Graphic Artist-alumni from The Animation Workshop, who has been working 10+ years at the Danish company Funday Games.
‘Books are made of trees’ (Source: The Animation Workshop)
“All animation projects are about finding the right way to communicate a certain idea or concept”, Sophie explains as she looks back at her student life. Now she has the title of Art Director and follows games from conceptualization to the final marketing. “While you are a student you have a safety-net. It is exactly the time to experiment and try out as many things as possible. I have always kept an open mind and loved trying out different techniques and roles, both as a student but also in my professional career, all of which led me where I am today”.
Sophie has some final advice for the new professionals – “Animation is a craft and skill set which you continuously improve – even out of school. Ai is at the top of everyone’s mind now, but I find it irrelevant to focus on. I do see it as a motivation to keep finetuning my skills and become an even better artist. I believe that quality trumps quantity – always”.
The graduates started back in 2021 and will now pursuit a career in a multifaceted and ever-evolving animation industry.
Class of 2021-2025
The graduation projects are the final result after 3,5 years in school and are produced through one semester. The production teams consists of 4-12 people and are mixed Character Animators and Computer Graphic Artists. The class of 2021 totals 48 graduates that will now make their way into the animation industry where they will shape the future of entertainment, art, and visual communication.
‘Bliss’ (Source The Animation Workshop)
As in previous years the graduation projects will be made available online for free through TAW’s social media channels during spring and summer. The projects are world-class animation for adults and kids alike and this year the result is five wonderful short films and the two exhilarating games.
YouTube and Vimeo release TBA:
- Books are made of trees – In the face of danger looming over the Old Oak and its many inhabitants, Leon, a grumpy badger, refuses to abandon his beloved book collection.
- Rouge – A ruthless rogue bounty hunter finds out what it means to be shown no mercy.
- Servicebus – When pressing the service button in a plane we all know what will happen, but what happens when you press it on a bus?
- Bliss – On a passage towards the afterlife, an old woman crosses paths with the soul of a child.
- Potlem – A porcelain child comes to life in an ever-smiling family. Everything seems perfect until his fatal flaw comes to light: a frown.
Game release:
- Runeravers (Itch.io release date – Jan. 27th) – Compete with your friends in ritual combat to the beat of the music!
- The Walls have Eyes – In 1884’s Copenhagen a horrible murder traps a spirit inside a house and in its desperation to break free, it aids a lone detective in solving the mysterious crime, hoping that the truth will set it free.