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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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Christophe Desse

Christophe Desse

Lead Technical Artist | Naughty Dog

Christophe worked as a special effect artist and modeller for advertising, tv, film, and games in France, Germany and Singapore. He is working at Naughty Dog in Santa Monica since 2006, first as an environment artist, then a Technical Artist artist and now as a technical lead artist. He started to thinker with 3d software back in 1991 and is now experienced with most industry-standard packages and workflows. When he is not working on industry defining AAA titles at work ( Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2 Uncharted 3, the Last of Us, Uncharted 4, Lost Legacy and currently The Last of Us 2). Beside teaching texturing and rendering at the Gnomon school, he enjoys creating cartoony or stylized characters and supercharged muscle cars.