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.
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Winners
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On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category winners.
Winner: Taanthip Tuchinda
Hi I'm Taan! I'm a Character artist that just graduated with a Game Development BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Here's a collection of some projects I've worked on in the past year.
Winner: Nate Thorman
Currently a student of VFX and Entertainment Design at Flinders University / CDW Studios. I specialize in environment concept art with a 3D heavy workflow. My goal is to become a concept artist for games and film.
Winner: Jonni Zhang
This is my final project for the Foundations term at Think Tank Online. Hope you like it!
Winner: Joe Rodrigues
Heka is an end-of-year project carried out with a team of 8 people, François Larrieu, Yutian Li, Kevin Chidiac, Maxime Lecas, Théau Guettier, Alexandre Benyahia, Antoine Zavagno and Joe Rodrigues. This project was carried out in 8 weeks with a team of 5 environment artists, two character artists and 1 tech artist.
Winner: Matthew Corsillo
This is my Senior Thesis project for Ringling College of Art and Design. I designed, modeled, textured, rigged, animated, lit, and composited all the characters and assets in the piece. I focused heavily on creating a unique story in a genre that I love and designing an off-beat, grotesque world to match it.
Finalists
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On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.