Rookie Awards 2024 - Open for Entries!

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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Alyssa Zarate

Art Director | The VFX Mentor

Alyssa Zarate is currently an Art Director at The VFX Mentor. For over a decade, she has worked on films such as Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs The Machines, Game of Thrones, The Wolverine, Jurassic World, Prometheus, The Chronicles of Narnia to name a few; and various shows produced by HBO, Starz, National Geographic, Amazon Prime, Disney and Netflix.

She started out working in the Arts Department as an on-set Production Illustrator & Designer for Film & Television productions around New Zealand & Australia. She is passionate about mentoring and inspiring current and future generations of artists in Visual Effects & Animation.