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Rookie Awards 2020

The 10th Annual Rookie Awards is open to young creatives in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3d visualisation. There is simply no better way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online.

Rookie Awards 2020
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Winners
Studio Internships | Epic Games

On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category winners.

Winner: Stephen Alexander Falk

Stephen Alexander Falk - UNSC Outpost on Instillation 01
This structure was inspired by the Halo 5 art style but I designed all aspects myself. It's a deployable UNSC garrison hidden in the mountains of the Instillation 01 Halo ring. This structure is a temporary base that can be flown in by pelicans and used as a forward base. The structure includes extendable leg
Internship - Winner

Winner: Lola Yiting Zhang

Lola Yiting Zhang - Lola Zhang's Entry 2020
Lola Zhang's Entry 2020
Internship - Winner

Winner: Junliang Zhang

Junliang Zhang - Procedural Forest Terrain with Houdini and UE4
The goal of this project is to create a procedural terrain with Houdini and generating all of the different terrain shapes in realtime in the UE4. This is one of my Technical Art course demos. Some assets are from Megascans and PLE - Procedural Landscape Ecosystem. Everything is one click done!! Always Proceduralism!!
Internship - Winner

Winner: Vinay Bhardwaj

Vinay Bhardwaj - Rya ,Leo Bonhart : The Bounty Hunter ,Fantasy Bug Warrior and Purple Wax
Hey everyone, I did these pieces for my demo reel class at gnomon taught by Miguel Ortega. Rya concept by - Sarah Jones ,Leo Bonhart Concept by Dmitry Skvortsov, Fantasy Bug Warrior - Original Concept Purple Wax - Maxim Marenkov.
Internship - Winner

Winner: Kevin Chiu

Kevin Chiu - Concept Art & Visual Development
A collection of concept designs for games and animations I've done this year.
Internship - Winner

Winner: Samantha Christianson

Samantha Christianson - Naturalist's Study
2020 Environment for Games demo reel. Real time scene made during my time at Think Tank Training Centre. The final scene was rendered in Unreal Engine 4.
Internship - Winner

Winner: Sean Gardner

Sean Gardner - Sean Gardner- 3D Generalist  2020
This is a collection of some of the projects that I've working on over the past year. Included is my current Demo Reel and my most recent projects. I hope you like my work!
Internship - Winner

Winner: Ben S Meng

Ben S Meng - KONO Express
The world was surrounded by nuclear fire because of greedy and selfishness. After the war, all lifeforms on Earth was almost destroyed, but not yet perished. To compete for surviving, human used their existing knowledge and the remaining material to build machines and raised mutant creatures to protect themselves.
Internship - Winner

Finalists
Studio Internships | Epic Games

On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.