Presenting the Winners for Rookie Awards 2022

In this article, Guillermo Rodríguez Benavides, takes us through his latest challenge of creating a purely realistic daytime exterior scene based on a real-life location.

From an idea to a rendered fully original character. In this breakdown, ArtFX graduate Robin Isola, details the process behind the making of "Banshee" in Zbrush, Maya and Arnold.

Digital artists have a huge selection of digital painting, lighting and rendering tools available to bring their ideas to life. Marmoset Toolbag is the 3D Artist’s Multi-Tool, featuring real-time physically-based rendering and image-based lighting, making these 30 Rookie Awards entries shine!

Gnomon graduate and 3D Artist, Fiona Ng, shares her experience working on her Undead character to refine her realistic painting skills in Mari.

Second year Game Art student from Games Academy Falmouth University, Oana Pascari, chose to recreate the Raven Hotel lobby from the ‘Altered Carbon’ series and turn it into a real-time game ready environment. This is how she did it.

For his mentorship project at Think Tank Online, Jocque Butler took on the challenge of creating a real-time cinematic character using Unreal Engine 5. In this article he takes us through his entire process.

Grace Collet took on the challenge of creating a stylised Voodoo Diorama for a university project using Unreal Engine, and in this article she shares in detail, how she accomplished the final look.

Kota Kasahara challenged himself to create a project for which he had to learn all aspects of the 3D pipeline. This is Project Evangelion.

Think Tank Training Centre student and 3D Artist, Michelle Li, recreates the iconic Converse sneaker using photo projection in Mari.

In this article Ashton Godinho shares he process for creating his 2022 Rookie Awards entry, Sail, which involved creating both a detailed 3D character and environment.