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Unleash Your Inner Artist with the Huion Inspiroy 2-L and Inspiroy Dial 2

Unleash Your Inner Artist with the Huion Inspiroy 2-L and Inspiroy Dial 2

Attention all digital artists! If you're on the hunt for the perfect tool to bring your digital creations to life, the Huion Inspiroy 2-L and Inspiroy Dial 2 graphic tablets are just what you need.

Creative Spotlight: An interview with Environment Artist, Brenda Santos

Creative Spotlight: An interview with Environment Artist, Brenda Santos

Brenda Santos is an Environment Artist who recently completed an outstanding God of War-inspired demo reel. Discover how learning hybrid opened up doors for her in a new country with like minded artists and industry mentors.

Creating Immersive Game Worlds: How the Right Workstation Can Help Bring Your Ideas to Life

Creating Immersive Game Worlds: How the Right Workstation Can Help Bring Your Ideas to Life

Mónica Melar, winner of our Creative Starter Kit Giveaway, shares her experience using Unreal Engine on her Dell Precision 3650 Tower Workstation with RTX A5000 GPU to create a stunning night environment inspired by Olympus. Check out her process and get inspired for your next Rookie Awards entry!

RenderHub: A New Experience In The 3D World

RenderHub: A New Experience In The 3D World

RenderHub is an all-encompassing online community that brings together 3D artists and professionals from all over the world. With a marketplace, render gallery, creative tools, friendly forum, learning center, and more, RenderHub offers a complete 3D experience.

Take Your World-Building to the Next Level with KitBash3D

Take Your World-Building to the Next Level with KitBash3D

With its vast selection of high-quality 3D assets, KitBash3D makes it easy to create stunning environments that transport audiences to new, immersive, exciting and unforgettable worlds.

How to Navigate the Start of Your Lighting Career

Getting Started

How to Navigate the Start of Your Lighting Career

We talk to Katana studios—new and old—to discover what they look for when hiring lighting artists and what advice they’d give to those just starting out.

3ds Max Projects Raising the Bar for 3D Modeling and Visualisation

3ds Max Projects Raising the Bar for 3D Modeling and Visualisation

Rookie Awards entrants raised the bar this year showcasing their best work using 3ds Max®. Here is some of the best content created in 2022.

Building your FX Portfolio: Showcasing Your Best Work

Building your FX Portfolio: Showcasing Your Best Work

The power of Houdini's procedural system that empowers artists to work freely, create multiple iterations and rapidly share workflows is being clearly demonstrated by aspiring artists on The Rookies. Check out these inspiring projects!

Using Robotic Cameras and CG Animation to Take to the Skies (and Space)

Using Robotic Cameras and CG Animation to Take to the Skies (and Space)

befores & afters go behind the scenes of two UTS Animal Logic Academy shorts exploring the intersection between analogue and digital animation.

30 Projects That Shine With Marmoset's Suite of Tools

30 Projects That Shine With Marmoset's Suite of Tools

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!

10 Digital Art Tips to Make You Draw Better and Faster

10 Digital Art Tips to Make You Draw Better and Faster

Tom Skender runs us through his top ten tips for every digital artist, using Photoshop CC on a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 to demonstrate them all during a speedpaint of Pokemon’s Nessa.

Texturing in Mari: An Artist’s Path to Storytelling

Texturing in Mari: An Artist’s Path to Storytelling

We sit down with Charli Holt to discuss how texturing plays a vital role in storytelling and why Mari is the perfect tool for students trying to break into the industry.

Game Development for Remote Teams: Creating Projects From Anywhere in the World

Game Development for Remote Teams: Creating Projects From Anywhere in the World

In this article we look at how Teradici is empowering artists and game developers to "Create without limits", allowing them to collaborate on projects from anywhere, with the launch of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine4 on the AWS Marketplace.

Rookie Awards Entrants Creating Beautiful Renders With V-Ray

Rookie Awards Entrants Creating Beautiful Renders With V-Ray

From Photoreal rendering, real-time visualisation, and more, check out what talented Rookie Awards entrants are bringing to life with V-Ray.

Extraordinary Artists, Extraordinary Art, and Innovative Techniques: In the NVIDIA Studio

Extraordinary Artists, Extraordinary Art, and Innovative Techniques: In the NVIDIA Studio

NVIDIA Studio is a commitment to creators, providing free resources and insider knowledge, highlighting their incredible work, and developing software and hardware technology to speed up creative workflows.

Design, Detail and Animation: Creating Custom Clothing with Marvelous Designer

Design, Detail and Animation: Creating Custom Clothing with Marvelous Designer

Nina Chernyshenko, a freelance digital artist from Ukraine, gives you the tools and tips to create 3D custom clothing for your portfolio, using Marvelous Designer.

20 Amazing Projects That Bring Characters and Environments to Life with Marvelous Designer

20 Amazing Projects That Bring Characters and Environments to Life with Marvelous Designer

Marvelous Designer is arguably the world’s most powerful solution for making, editing and reusing 3D clothes and cloth simulations.

Game-Engine World Creation Using Unreal Engine and Cinema4D

Game-Engine World Creation Using Unreal Engine and Cinema4D

Get inspired by how Senior designer at FOX Sports, Jesse Larson, is creating 3D Worlds straight out of fantasy movies, with Unreal Engine and Cinema4D.

Sculpting and Scene Creation Using Adobe 3D Modeler

Sculpting and Scene Creation Using Adobe 3D Modeler

A welcome addition to the Adobe 3D Substance ecosystem, Substance 3D Modeler Beta is now available for use and the Adobe 3D team are looking for your valuable feedback and discussion around this new tool.

Student Access to Houdini Education

Student Access to Houdini Education

If you are a student and looking to hone your craft using Houdini, the good news is that you now have access to Houdini Education. Read on to learn how to get started.

To draw, or not to draw...on a tablet. That is the question.

To draw, or not to draw...on a tablet. That is the question.

So many tablets, so many models, and the decision for many traditional illustrators is which one to choose when embarking on their journey into digital content creation. In this article we look at Wacom's Cintiq Pro 16, it's features, and why you'll never look back!

Using the Right Workstation to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life

Using the Right Workstation to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life

The Rookie Awards is the best way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online, and doing it with the right workstation will help you bring more of your creative ideas to life.

Is Cinema 4D Good For Beginners?

Is Cinema 4D Good For Beginners?

You're at school and you want to get started in Cinema 4D. Is it good for beginners? Or are you punching above your weight? The great news is, the learning curve is smooth and you can easily pick up the tools to get started on your creative journey.

Inside ARTFX: Top International School of VFX, Cinema and Animation Opens a Brand New Campus

ArtFX, a top International School of VFX, Cinema and Animation, is opening a brand new campus you will want to study at.

How Lenovo is Working to Power Human Connections and Creativity

How Lenovo is Working to Power Human Connections and Creativity

From real-time rendering to editing and designing, Lenovo is listening to the needs of the digital industries, and delivering a machine to power your amazing entries and portfolios.