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Rookie Awards 2022

The 12th 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 2022
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Philippe Gaulier

Art Director | Framestore

I graduated in 1999 from the ESAG Penninghen in Paris (graphic design/Illustration/Art direction). Following that, I spent a few years concepting and texturing at In-Utero, a video games company in Paris, as well as Ubisoft Shanghai (China). Around 2002, it was time for me to explore new horizons, so I grabbed my umbrella, crossed the sea (didn’t take too long) and arrived in London where I started in TV, then moved onto films, joining a few art departments along the way. There I had the opportunity to work on numerous film productions, quite a few VFX facilities (MPC, Double Negative, Method Studios… etc) as well as some on-set Art Departments directly for Marvel/Disney and Warner Brothers, to name a few. Some of the films I worked on include a few Harry Potter, The Dark Knight Rises, Fury Road, Jupiter Ascending, Doctor Strange… I am currently Senior Art Director at Framestore, Los Angeles where it has been raining a lot lately, and I still own an umbrella.