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Everything You Need to Know About the Rookie Awards: 14 Common Questions Answered

Everything You Need to Know About the Rookie Awards: 14 Common Questions Answered

To help you better understand the contest, here are our most commonly asked questions so you don't have to worry about asking them.

Join the GhostVFX Team: Internship Applications Open Now (Copenhagen, London, or Remote)

Join the GhostVFX Team: Internship Applications Open Now (Copenhagen, London, or Remote)

GhostVFX is a leading VFX studio with offices in Copenhagen and London. As a winner of their internship opportunity, you'll have the chance to work alongside experienced artists, learning about the VFX pipeline and contributing to exciting film projects.

Winners Announced - Autodesk RIG.B Challenge

Winners Announced - Autodesk RIG.B Challenge

Who won the Autodesk sponsored RIG.B challenge hosted on The Rookies website

Opportunities to Kickstart Careers: Archviz Mentorship with Unsigned Studio

Opportunities to Kickstart Careers: Archviz Mentorship with Unsigned Studio

There is simply no better way to launch your career than to enter the Rookie Awards and win one of the amazing Career Opportunities on offer.

Entering the Rookie Awards, Connecting With Professionals and Forging Careers in the Creative Industries

Entering the Rookie Awards, Connecting With Professionals and Forging Careers in the Creative Industries

In this article we interview five PIXL VISN graduates on their journey into the creative industries and they share with us how entering the Rookie Awards has helped them forge their way.

Rookie Awards 2023: Meet the Judging Panel

Rookie Awards 2023: Meet the Judging Panel

We are incredibly honoured to introduce such an amazing line-up of industry masters for our Rookie Awards 2023 Judging Panel.

Bring RIG.B to Life in This Autodesk Sponsored Contest

Bring RIG.B to Life in This Autodesk Sponsored Contest

The Autodesk Art team has provided a robot character for you to flex your creative muscles with! Texture, Animate or bring RIG.B to life with some imaginative FX.

Finalists Announced - Adobe Substance 3D Robot Challenge

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Finalists Announced - Adobe Substance 3D Robot Challenge

Congratulations to all the finalists for the Adobe Substance 3D Robot Challenge.

Register Now - Winter Stories Live Feedback Session

Register Now - Winter Stories Live Feedback Session

Join Sonja Christophe, Nikos Nikolopoulos and Nicklas Byriel on March 24th at 4.00 PM GMT (London Time) where they will be giving feedback on some of the entries from the recently completed Winter Stories student rendering challenge!

Winners Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge

Winners Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge

Congratulations to everyone that entered. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Winter Stories Challenge.

Finalists Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge

Finalists Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge

For this challenge, we have teamed up with Nicklas Byriel & Nikos Nikolopoulos to help create a lighting and rendering challenge.

Level up your skills with this $25k Creative Starter Kit Giveaway

Level up your skills with this $25k Creative Starter Kit Giveaway

To celebrate our 12th Annual Rookie Awards, and all the support we've received over the years, we are giving away another Creative Starter Kit to help take your creative skills to the next level.

Knight Spider Animation Challenge - People's Choice Winners Announced

Knight Spider Animation Challenge - People's Choice Winners Announced

Congratulations to Marina Peters and Dean Lakoseljac who were voted our People's Choice winners! You are both are in for a treat, with some world-class training through CG Spectrum.

Knight Spider Animation Challenge - Winners Announced

Knight Spider Animation Challenge - Winners Announced

Congratulations to everyone that entered the Knight Spider Animation challenge, there were some fantastic entries and the judges had a lot of fun reviewing some of the incredible work of our character coming to life.

Finalists Announced - Knight Spider Animation Challenge

Finalists Announced - Knight Spider Animation Challenge

For this challenge, Knight Spider was looking a little sad and we wanted you to bring him to life! The brief was to create a 10 second performance video or dynamic poses to really show off Spider Kings attitude and emotions.

Winners Announced - Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things

Winners Announced - Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things

Each Netflix and Skill contest takes a trending show from our favourite streaming service and uses it as the topic.

Netflix and Skill - Stranger Things contest open for submissions

Netflix and Skill - Stranger Things contest open for submissions

Stranger Things - Netflix and Skill contest for everyone to challenge themselves, improve their creative skills and showcase them to the world.

New Contest - Knight Spider Animation Challenge

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.

New Contest - Adobe Substance 3D - Virtual Photography

New Contest - Adobe Substance 3D - Virtual Photography

Adobe has just dropped Adobe Substance 3D, a collection of powerful 3D tools for both professionals and young artists. We are so excited about the potential of this new suite of tools that we had to create the first contest to use it!

New Challenge: Flash Gordon Modeling Contest

New Challenge: Flash Gordon Modeling Contest

Looking to push your modeling skills and take on a production based challenge?Well, this is chance and we have an incredible concept art design pack ready for you to download and start working with right away.