Rookie Awards 2022
The 12th 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
Rookie of the Year | 2D Animation
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category winners.
Winner: Brooke Burnett
Best friends Sadie and Jeff play a card game that merges imagination with reality, casting magical spells from their plays. As they progress, the cards become increasingly more and more ridiculous. With the battle at its height, the game becomes all too shockingly real.
Runner Up: Amber Iles
This film follows a squishy, red character on a mission to create the illusive creature, the Tardigrade.
Made by myself over the course of my final year at university. Sound design by Laurence Iles.
Highly Commended: Catherine Krahn
Two Room-Mates are left by their landlord Bertram with an ultimatum, Keep the apartment clean or face consequences they cant even imagine! Can these two blockheads keep themselves in line? or will they find themselves on the street.
Highly Commended: Jingqi Zhang
A cricket wants to achieve the dream in an abandoned quarry.
Highly Commended: Aiden Burkley
A stubborn mechanic sets out to fix the one thing no one can or even wants fixed. Metal Heart is a short film made for my senior year at the Cleveland Institute of Art!
Highly Commended: Liweijie Jiang
A pizza delivery guy must deliver a pizza in 15 minutes or less or else he doesn’t get paid, but he faces many challenging obstacles on the route to his destination.
Highly Commended: Saiya Lin
A young chef is torn between his dreams of becoming a hibachi chef and his fulfillment of familial expectations to take over his father’s high-end restaurant.
People's Choice: Lucie Castagnet
This is the last update of my demoreel. I'm working on 2D FX animation !
Please enjoy ^^
Finalists
Rookie of the Year | 2D Animation
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.