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So You Wanna Make Games?

A 10-part educational series that tells you straight up everything you need to know. With quick foundational lessons, examples and interviews with real working artists, they debunk the myths behind what it’s really like to work on video games.

New Contest - Knight Spider Animation Challenge

Knight Spider is standing in a bind-pose right now, and looking a little sad. We want you to bring him to life! Your brief is to create a 10 second performance video or dynamic poses to really show off Spider Kings attitude and emotions.

Announcement: 2021 Best Creative Media & Entertainment Art Schools in the World

We are excited to announce our 11th annual ranking lists naming the Top 50 schools offering programs in game design, animation, visual effects, concept art, motion graphics and architectural visualisation.

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The Secrets Behind Specialist Jobs in Animation and VFX

UTS Animal Logic Academy, have put together a breakdown of some of the key specific industry roles, from industry pros, to help you prepare for your future job in Animation and VFX.

Achieving Realistic Skin Details With Manual Sculpting in Zbrush

Want to achieve realistic skin details for your 3D Portraits? Parth Shah, a Modeling TD at Double Negative, explains how to achieve realistic skin details using manual sculpting techniques in Zbrush.

Lighting and Compositing a Futuristic Cityscape

Thomas Eckstein, a Lighting/LookDev Artist at TRIXTER, shares his breakdown of how to create a stylised futuristic cityscape by pushing the boundaries of look development, lighting and compositing.

Weekly Drills 068 - #TextureCubes

This week we want you to paint a bunch of textured cubes using your preferred tools and workflows, then upload it to your Rookies profile and tag it #RookiesWeeklyDrills and #TextureCubes.

Learn How to Make Realistic Props for Games

Aspiring to join the gaming industry, 3D Artist Kartikeya's focus has been to hone his existing skills and learn new ones, producing jaw-dropping models in between. This is a great article to read if you are wanting to learn how to make realistic game-ready props for your 3D Art portfolio.

Development Update: Project Sorting

We have just released a new feature to help make you Portfolio look the way you want it. You can now take full control over the order in which people will see your projects.

Fundamentals for Lighting 3D Animated Scenes

Ivan Pechalin, a Lighting Artist and 3D Animation & VFX Student at PIXLVISN Media Arts Academy, takes us through the fundamental of lighting to create a stand-out lighting piece for your portfolio.

How to Create Award Winning Motion Graphics For Your Portfolio

David Inlines, a VFX Arist at Gameloft and Rookie of The Year 2020 Runner Up in the 3D Motion Graphics category, gives us some insight into how to create an award-winning motion graphics piece for your 3D and FX portfolio.

Win an Autodesk license, Epic Games merch and 1-on-1 Mentorship

Win big! The sweepstake is open to all self-taught artists, students and recent graduates who want to work in creative media and entertainment industries like games, film, animation and design.

Featured Schools

CG Spectrum

Our mentors meet students from around the world online for small classes or 1-on-1 specialised industry diploma courses. Apply now and launch your career in games or film.

ArtFX School

Created by professionals of the film and video games industries.

Think Tank Training Centre

World-class VFX training and mentorship by industry professionals

Recent Certified Schools

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VFX-Workshop

VFX-Workshop is the school of digital visual effects and 3D CGI. The training lasts three years. It is directly accessible after the Baccalauréat, without preparatory class. Our teaching is based on a technical technical approach applied to production.

UniSA / Rising Sun Pictures

Delivering specialist degrees in a world-class visual effects studio and empowering the next generation to start their career in film and television.

butic The New School

Training in the field of new technologies is essential to progress in today's digital world.

The DAVE School

The DAVE School consistently produces skilled graduates who are uniquely prepared for industry positions. DAVE graduates have worked on Oscars and Emmy nominated and/or winning projects, and have won other prestigious awards.

RUBIKA

RUBIKA aims at a balance between cultural, artistic and technical education. Throughout their training, students work on projects in studio mode. This experience-based learning ensures students a rapid professionalization, forging their personal organization and their culture of collaborative work.

Member Showcase, Level-Ups and Achievements

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Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

Winners #13: With over 30,000 members using the portfolio tools on The Rookies, there is no shortage of amazing portfolios worth checking out. This week our team has picked another round of amazing portfolios that shows a great range of skills, a creative eye and solid technical skills.

Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

Our editor has hand selected some portfolios from members of The Rookies that really impressed this week. Congratulations to these members for unlocking a new achievement.

Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

Our editor has hand selected some portfolios from members of The Rookies that really impressed this week. Congratulations to these members for unlocking a new achievement.

Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

With over 30,000 members using the portfolio tools on The Rookies, there is no shortage of amazing portfolios worth checking out. This week our team has picked another round of amazing portfolios that shows a great range of skills, a creative eye and solid technical skills.

Rookie All Stars - Isaac Zuren, Morgane Herbstmeyer & Valentin Erbuke

The ultimate goal for all members at The Rookies is to launch their careers in creative media and entertainment. We thought it would be a good idea to start sharing some lesser known stories from our alumni that are living the dream.

Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

Our editors have selected their favourite portfolio pages again this week. There is a little bit here for everyone including real-time projects, weapons and lost cities.

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