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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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Kacy McDonald

Kacy McDonald

Executive Producer | ILM

Kacy McDonald is a Visual Effects Executive Producer at Industrial Light & Magic. McDonald has worked to deliver Hollywood blockbuster films like Ready Player One and Solo: A Star Wars Story. McDonald began her film career at DisneyToon Studios in Sydney Australia after graduating from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies. From here her passion and skill for filmmaking helped her quickly progress into an Associate Production Manager role while working on Lilo and Stitch: Stitch Has a Glitch and Tarzan 2. McDonald moved from the 2D animation world into her first 3D feature animation project to work as a Production Supervisor on the Academy Award-winning Happy Feet produced at Animal Logic. Since this time McDonald has worked on a range of high profile Visual Effects and Feature Animation projects at other studios around the world such as Framestore, Flying Bark Productions and Digital Domain.