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.
Adrien Vallecilla
Lookdev & Lighting Artist
All my life I’ve wanted to work on the visual effects industry, I spent hundreds of hours as a teenager creating procedural shaders on a simple sphere in Maya.
One day I finally had the chance to start studying visual effects for real, I got accepted on the great visual school named Artfx in the South of France, and after 3 really demanding years I graduated, one month later I was in a plane for Vancouver to start my first job at MPC as a lighter TD.
I worked one year at MPC Vancouver, after that I worked one more year at Scanline VFX as a CG generalist artist, and then I got the chance to get a job as a lookdev and lighting artist at Digital Domain, where 2 years later I’m still working at as a lookdev and lighting artist.
On a bit more than 4 years experience I worked on 10+ movies and got the chance to Lead one of them for Digital Domain, Ant Man 2.
I remember back on the day participating on the 2015 Rookies, where I got into the 10 finalists with my student demo reel.