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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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Luis Cataldi

Global Education Evangelist for Epic Games and Unreal Engine

Luis Cataldi has been working in the computer graphic industry for over 20 years in roles varying from character TD, to animator, lighter, environment and FX artist, and art director. His work has appeared on television, in music videos, theme parks rides, feature animated movies such as “Robots” and “Ice Age II” and AAA video games. Cataldi served as one of the founding members of Kaos Studios in NYC as the art director. In the role, Cataldi built and lead an art team to make “Frontlines: Fuel of War” in 2007 and served as the initial art director on “Homefront” which shipped in 2011. Both games were made using Unreal Engine 3. Luis became impassioned with teaching in the late-1990s and conducted numerous workshops at The School of Visual Arts and as well as served as an instructor at New York University. He moved into the full-time role of professor and Department Chair of the Interactive Design and Game Development program at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010. During his tenure at SCAD, the department won the national E3 College Game competition 2 years in a row for 2013 and 2014. Luis joined Epic Games in 2014 working to build and promote an educational community around the amazing Unreal Engine 4. In this role, Luis visits schools worldwide demonstrating the beauty and power of Unreal Engine and sharing learning resources with students, educators, and game development enthusiasts. Despite numerous attempts over many years trying to explain his job, his mother still has no idea what he actually does.