As a general rule we are unable to offer work experience or on-the-job experience to students or people looking to explore the realms of the Animation Industry.

The reasons for this are varied but in short we simply do not have the time or personnel to supervise students or extra people in the studio.

Since the commission of the studio in 2008, GruntWorks has quickly established a number of full time productions and unfortunately all hands are on deck to fulfil our production needs.

Our production schedule is generally running at a consistent level, with the majority of tasks requiring a high degree of experience, so in short there is very little for inexperienced people to do in the studio.

So you would be happy to look around the studio and see how things work and how we go about producing animation! Well that in itself creates another set of issues, the most notable being commercial confidentiality. Our clients expect a high level of security associated with their production assets and therefore most materials carry a level of commercial sensitivity which GruntWorks will not under general circumstances allow to be jeopardized.

We are constantly approached with requests for work experience, and as GruntWorks is a small company, we simply can not accommodate so many requests. It may be possible in the future for us to change our policy on work experience, however at this time we are unable to accept any such requests.

We are well aware some people can be quite 'persistent' therefore as a guide, the following will not help you:

	Getting your parents or teachers to contact us on your behalf. Use your own initiative,
	Sending us multiple emails enquiring about work experience. One is generally enough and please be patient!, or
	Consistently calling us. We have better things to do than answering questions about information that is available on our web site.

We do on the other hand quite frequently advertise positions available at GruntWorks in our Employment Section. We will always welcome submissions of your work or applications for available positions. Please always send a Submission Release Form, available from the Job Opportunities page with any demo reels or works you would like us to take a look at.