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Rookie Awards 2020

The 10th 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 2020
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Winners
Rookie of the Year | Concept Art

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

Winner: Quentin Marsollier

Quentin Marsollier - Concept Art & Visual Development
The goals in my career are to become an illustrator and a concept artist for video games and animation movies. I realized that I wanted to work in the creative media and entertainment industry, especially in concept art since I begin to draw in the goal to create something new.
Rookie of the Year - Winner

Runner Up: Jay Blencowe

Jay Blencowe - Jay Blencowe - Concept Art
3D heavy workflow (Although I still draw). Interested in architecture in entertainment design. (I wrote an exegesis on it) I love turn of the 20th century design. Lately I've been expanding out to more natural environment exploration. Looking to work as a concept artist in film and games.
Rookie of the Year - Runner Up

Highly Commended: Aymeric Ruiz

Aymeric Ruiz - EDKO
My portfolio created for my graduation project at Syn Studio. Had a lot of fun building the world, elaborating a story and an art direction.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Thibaud Delaperche

Thibaud Delaperche - Labote Art 2
My name is Thibaud Delaperche, I'm french and I'm 24 years old. Today, I'm sure about what I want to do in my life. I want to become an artist in the creative industry. That's why I work everyday on my drawing, my metodology, my knowledge of new tools, my english. So, I'm really happy to share my work with all of you.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Inka Schulz

Inka Schulz - Altwelt: The Beginning
ALTWELT; The Old World, Germanic The Old World, riddled with mystery and magic, used to house bustling kingdoms filled with humans- until a spell destroyed all. Eons later, some Wizards began coming back from the dead as Liches, only to find themselves in where lie mystical ruins, beckoning to become the New World.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Ben S Meng

Ben S Meng - KONO Express
The world was surrounded by nuclear fire because of greedy and selfishness. After the war, all lifeforms on Earth was almost destroyed, but not yet perished. To compete for surviving, human used their existing knowledge and the remaining material to build machines and raised mutant creatures to protect themselves.
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

Highly Commended: Félix Donadio

Félix Donadio - Félix Donadio -  Concept Art & Illustration - 2020
Hi! I'm Félix, I'm really happy to share my work again for this awesome contest. It's like a big milestone for me!
Rookie of the Year - Highly Commended

People's Choice: Jeanne Plounevez

Jeanne Plounevez - Jeanne Plounevez - Concept Art & Illustration- 2020
Hello, I'm Jeanne! Here is my contribution to the 2020 awards in concept art & illustration. I hope you will like my work, feel free to contact me if you have any question or critics about what I did.
Rookie of the Year - People's Choice

Finalists
Rookie of the Year | Concept Art

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