Rookie Awards 2021
The 11th 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.
Round of applause for our sponsors
Winners
Rookie of the Year | Immersive Media
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category winners.
Winner: Khong Yong Ting
Locked up in our rooms, tired of the pandemic, yet our creativity never stops. As we reach the end of our Digital Media course, we will embark into a new world. Metres away from reaching it, we were struck with the pandemic Using our imagination, we turn ourselves into mini "Minastras".
Runner up: Nick Rutten
Dream Droplets is the poetic VR experience that I made as my graduation project at HKU in 2020, The Netherlands. The experience focuses on communicating the internal world of Kim through the immersion of VR, visual storytelling, and a poem.
Highly Commended: Hans Palacios
This is my complete workflow detailing the evolution of my AR application deployed to an iOS mobile device that explores real-time FX through user interactivity. All of the work in this process was generated myself as part of my final project in the Master of Interactive Design & Game Development at SCAD.
People's Choice: Ng Jo Ling
Step Back in Time is a floor projection mapping that uses the technology of LIDAR and ultrashoot projector. The purpose of the installation is to allow users to feel and experience the changes of Klang in a day through the abstract form of storytelling during the interaction.
Finalists
Rookie of the Year | Immersive Media
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.