Contests Monster Challenge - Winners Announced Our first Monster Challenge required entrants to delve deep into the dark, look inside the closet, and into the shadows to come up with an amazing monster. We had a
Inspiration Featured YouTube Videos of the Month - March 2020 The Rookies YouTube Channel features the best animated short films, visual effects short films, game trailer and behind the scenes content that's been uploaded to the main website. This month
Learning In-depth review of 'Art School for Digital Artists' online course by a recent student With everyone starting to think about online options for studying these days, we thought it would be good to share a recent article by Willie Jimenez who went down this
Learning Production Pipeline for making high resolution CG characters Halime Maloof walks us through the workflow she used for creating the Portrait of Whang Od. The article outlines her production pipeline for making high resolution characters and includes solutions
Learning Matte Painting tips for camera mapping, 3D projection and element integration with Nuke Etienne Vittani is a freshly graduated student from Institut Artline, a french online school. Today he is sharing his workflow for integrating photorealistically an element into a camera mapping using
interview Interview with Ash Thundercliffe - 3D Environment Artist Ash Thundercliffe is a 3D Environment Artist working in the video game industry. He graduated from the University of Derby with a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Games Modelling and
News Top 10 career launching opportunities for digital artists in 2020 Launching a career in creative media is insanely hard. Most professional artists will tell you all they wanted back in the day was a chance to prove themselves. Well, we
Inspiration Portfolio of the Week - Luke Fornari With over 10,000 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 amazing
Learning Productivity hacks for digital artists working from home Being a digital artist requires a lot of mental effort, and sometimes it can be hard to stay focused - especially when working from home. There are countless distractions and
Learning These animators are levelling up their skills with Harmony Recognised and used by the world’s leading animation studios for 25 years, Toon Boom Harmony levels the playing field with its production animation software by bringing 2D animation and
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