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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
Career Opportunities | realworld one

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

Winner: Kateryna Yavorska

Kateryna Yavorska - Abandoned London Pub Diorama
I did this project to improve my skills in creating modular environments. The house inside the snow globe is the same house as you see outside, I just used different trim sheets.
Winner

Runner Up: Leonardo F. Betancur Díaz

Leonardo F. Betancur  Díaz - Space complex rest room EGEORED | UE5 Environment
This is the conclusion of two months of hard work, learning about decal techniques, trimsheet workflows, material creation inside unreal engine and a bunch of workflows widely used in the game and inmersive industry.hope you like it! Software used: Unreal Engine 5, Blender, Substance Painter, Marmoset & Krita
Runner Up

Highly Commended: Mingyuan Li

Mingyuan Li - Mingyuan Li 3D Environment Narrative Short
This narrative short is my MFA graduation thesis. I try to tell a story only by environment and camera moves as I'd like to push myself in storytelling in environment art.
Highly Commended

People's Choice: Jordi Soler

Jordi Soler  - Environment and Prop Art
In this entry I share my last projects: the Hero Prop "Wooton Desk 1850" and the Unreal Engine Environment "The Bathroom".
People's Choice

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