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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.

Rookie Awards 2022
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Winners
Rookie of the Year | Visual Effects

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

Winner: Loïc CIAUX

Loïc CIAUX - Loïc CIAUX  - Demoreel 2021 - CG Generalist
Hi there, I’m glad to share you my 2021 Graduation reel from my studies at ArtFX ! 5 years of studies inside a video of 90 seconds. Hope you’ll like it!
Rookie of the Year - Winner

Runner Up: Houra Ershad

Houra Ershad - Houra Ershad │ Character Creation Demo Reel 2022
I’m sharing here the last project I did for the Think Tank Training Centre online course. Big thanks to my mentor Alext Huget for his great feedback and knowledge, and to everyone in the Think Tank community for their help and support. Also, I’ve added a small throwback to my previous projects. Hope you enjoy it!
Rookie of the Year - Runner Up

Highly Commended: Bo-Mi Tak

Bo-Mi Tak - Little Hunter
I have been inspired by nature documentary. I tried to create a small world realistically.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Montasser Khalil

Montasser Khalil - Blog 22
"Blog 22" is a graduation project created by Montasser Khalil at Sheridan College, explaining the emotions people can experience when not accepted socially. Whether in a relationship, friendship, or meeting a significant other's family.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Laura Ludwig

Laura Ludwig - Lighting Demo Reel - Laura Ludwig
Welcome to my entry for this year's Rookies Awards! Here I will showcase and break down my lighting demo reel which I created during my education at PIXL VISN media arts academy last year.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Jonathan TRUONG

Jonathan TRUONG - My 2021-2022 Portfolio by Jonathan Truong
I'm a 20 yo, 3rd year student at VFX-Workshop and I will graduate in July 2022 so this is a selection of my best work, that gonna end up in my portfolio and Demoreel as a CG Generalist.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Pierre Legargeant

Pierre Legargeant - Student Showreel 2021
This is a selection of my personal and school projects during the last year of studies ! The first half is dedicated to my graduation movie, realized with 5 other people - I was in charge of the whole procedural modelization, and lead FX. the second half is my projects created during my free time.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Ruben Brouns

Ruben Brouns - Ruben Brouns - 2022 Portfolio
Hi there! My name is Ruben Brouns. I'm a 3rd-year student from The Netherlands. This entry contains projects I worked on over the past 2 years. I'm mainly into Texturing, Shading, Lighting, and Look-Development but I also do a little bit of Hard-Surface Modeling as well.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

People's Choice: Bavly Hanna

Bavly Hanna - Bavly Hanna - 3D Generalist
Hi, I'm Bavly, I'm currently studying at Gnomon School of VFX as a 3D Generalist. I had a dream to work in the film/game industry, and I came to Gnomon knowing nothing about 3D. A few terms in, I found passion in every bit of it, and I'm proud to present a different variety of 3D pieces I've been working on!
Rookie of the Year - People's Choice

Finalists
Rookie of the Year | Visual Effects

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