The Animation Workshop Graduates’ Projects 2023 Available Online
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In Viborg lies the world’s fourth best international animation school The Animation Workshop, VIA University College (TAW). In January, a new class of graduates got ready to enter the wide-ranging animation industry and join fellow storytellers and visual artists.
In January 2023, after 3.5 years of intense studies, the graduates received their diplomas and became certified Character Animators and Computer Graphic Artists, and joined an alumnus of award-winning artists and filmmakers.
These are not just talented young artists but hard workers with skills who’ve learned a craft. As a student of animation, you can draw, yes, but you are educated to design characters, worlds and stories that resonate with an audience, these skills can be in any number of formats and with lots of different purposes.
-Lotte Kronborg, Head of Studies
All of the graduation projects from The Animation Workshop 2023 have been released online, and can be viewed at their YouTube Playlist, or watched below
Graduation projects of 2023
This year the graduates present a computer game, a pilot for a series, and three animated short films in both 2D and 3D.
Postmouse – Join Postmouse on their very first journey to deliver mail in a treacherous world unfit for a tiny mouse. Explore the ruins, meet charming characters and solve puzzles in this free, student-made adventure game – all in one mouse-sized package!
Bean Boy – Beanboy as a show, and Beanboy as a character, serves as a reminder for kids (and grownups) to retain their childlike qualities of living in the present, loving without shame, and most importantly: having fun!
Overgrown – When his garden, once a place of love and dedication, gets infected by bugs, a gardener finds himself faced with an impossible choice: to leave, and abandon all he’s been working for, or to stay, but at the cost of his own life.
Mano – On a slow morning near the outskirts of a Danish city, two brothers learn to take care of themselves. Due to their neglectful mother the older brother feels the need to protect his younger sibling from the struggles of a dysfunctional family.
Katabasis – Dylan, a ten year old boy, sets out on a journey into the underworld in an attempt to retrieve his Grandma who has recently passed away. He navigates in a disorienting, dreamlike world and encounters its eerie inhabitants.