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Rookie Awards 2019

Started in 2010, this is our biggest annual contest. It's 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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Furio Tedeschi

Furio Tedeschi

Freelance Concept Artist

Furio Tedeschi is a concept artist, currently freelancing at Paramount Pictures on a yet another unannounced film project. Tedeschi has more than 15 years of professional experience in the entertainment industry. Throughout the years he has worked for studios including Blitz Games, Krome Studios and award-winning visual effects company, Mr. X Inc. He has also freelanced for a wide range of clients, such as 343 Industries, Alliance Studios, WB Games, Gameloft, Blur Studio, McFarlane Toys, and Sapphire Technology. Bumblebee & A Quiet Place

More recently, he was senior concept and character artist at BioWare Montreal on Mass Effect: Andromeda, and later started freelancing at Paramount Pictures as a concept artist on the recently released Transformers: The Last Knight. Furio specialises in concept art, art direction, 3D sculptures and character game models. He has extensive knowledge and competencies in a range of advanced CG software including Photoshop, Mental Ray, VRay 3D Studio Max amongst others. He has been the ZBrush Summit sculpt off champion for the past 3 years.

He is described by peers as one of the top 3D character artists in the industry. “He has a keen sense of shapes & volumes, a great sense of detail combined with a talent to make his characters look pretty badass. Working with him makes things way easier, he’s been able to nail really fast what we were looking for and honestly, it was quite above our expectations.” Remi Despret, Art Director, Gameloft. When he’s not working or playing games, he enjoys developing personal projects, learning to use his skills.