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Rookie Awards 2023

The 13th 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 2023
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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: Berenika Zemanek

Berenika Zemanek - Party at the Museum - Environment
I created this environment as part of one of my university modules. It is inspired by the interior of the Natural History Museum in London and my love of dinosaurs. In this project, I explored a trim sheet and modular kit workflows. A goal that I set for myself with this scene was also embedding a story into it.
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Winner: Callum Thorndyke

Callum Thorndyke - Inside a Looking Glass - A Cooperative VR Experience
Cooperative Science-Fiction VR experience taking place in parallel dimension environments tasking each player to portray a mirrored version of one another to work together and find the cause of the tears in the multiverse affecting a hotel caught between worlds. Built using the Unity game engine for Oculus Headsets.
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Winner: Kim Myung Ju

Kim Myung Ju - To My Buddy
It is a short 3D animation about a Christmas tree decoration doll who sets out to find his precious mate who has fallen into the basement.
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Winner: Mario Gallego Cano

Mario Gallego Cano - PlumVR
PlumVR is an innovative virtual reality (VR) programming project that aims to revolutionize professional plumbing training. This training system utilizes VR to facilitate the learning and mastery of plumbing skills, offering three levels of difficulty tailored to each user's needs. Through an immersive experience, Plum
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Winner: Tianran (Troy) Xia

Tianran (Troy) Xia - Windmill - Interactive VR Animation
Windmill is a VR storytelling experience. It is a story about how a boy tells an old painter named Daniel to embrace life by using color. The environment was designed to be a monochromatic wheatfield that looks like a painted world.
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Finalists
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On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.