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Bring RIG.B to Life in This Autodesk Sponsored Contest
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Jan 26, 2023 • 2 min read
Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things Contest: Runner Up Entry
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Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things Contest: Runner Up Entry

Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things contest runner-up, Daniel Truman, shares details of his entry titled, 'Left for Camp'.

  • Daniel Truman
Daniel Truman Dec 18, 2022 • 4 min read
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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Dec 1, 2022 • 2 min read
Register Now - Winter Stories Live Feedback Session
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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!

  • The Scout
The Scout Mar 21, 2022 • 2 min read
Winners Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Mar 17, 2022 • 1 min read
Finalists Announced - Winter Stories - A Lighting & Rendering Challenge
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Mar 6, 2022 • 2 min read
Level up your skills with this $25k Creative Starter Kit Giveaway
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Feb 18, 2022 • 5 min read
Knight Spider Animation Challenge - People's Choice Winners Announced
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Feb 4, 2022 • 3 min read
Knight Spider Animation Challenge - Winners Announced
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Feb 4, 2022 • 2 min read
Finalists Announced - Knight Spider Animation Challenge
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Jan 25, 2022 • 2 min read
Winners Announced - Netflix & Skill - Stranger Things
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Jan 13, 2022 • 1 min read
Netflix and Skill - Stranger Things contest open for submissions
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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.

  • Alwyn Hunt
Alwyn Hunt Nov 1, 2021 • 3 min read
New Contest - Knight Spider Animation Challenge
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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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Oct 1, 2021 • 2 min read
New Contest - Adobe Substance 3D - Virtual Photography
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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!

  • Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald Jun 24, 2021 • 3 min read
New Challenge: Flash Gordon Modeling Contest
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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.

  • Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald Jun 3, 2021 • 4 min read
Winners Announced - World of Real-Time Discoveries
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Winners Announced - World of Real-Time Discoveries

For this challenge entrants were asked to create a real-time environment render. The environment had to include different types of vegetation and plant life and most importantly had to evoke wonder, disbelief and emotions.

  • The Scout
The Scout May 29, 2021 • 2 min read
Finalists Announced - World of Real-time Discoveries
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Finalists Announced - World of Real-time Discoveries

For this challenge entrants were asked to create a real-time environment render. The environment had to include different types of vegetation and plant life and most importantly had to evoke wonder, disbelief and emotions.

  • The Scout
The Scout May 26, 2021 • 2 min read
Rebelway FX Challenge - Winners Announced
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Rebelway FX Challenge - Winners Announced

In what was one of the toughest contests to judge that we've ever had, we are pleased to announce the official winners of the Rebelway FX challenge. Winner - Jonny Fanny Can everyone give a HUGE round of applause to Jonny Fanny [https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fanny/] for his

  • The Scout
The Scout May 2, 2021 • 1 min read
Rebelway FX Challenge Finalists Announced
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Rebelway FX Challenge Finalists Announced

For this challenge you were were given the task of creating your own unique take on a battle for the ages by adding in you own VFX to make the scene pop. The team at Rebelway [https://www.rebelway.net/] provided some amazing assets for this challenge an the judges

  • The Scout
The Scout Apr 26, 2021 • 2 min read
Level up your skills with this Creative Starter Kit Giveaway
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Level up your skills with this Creative Starter Kit Giveaway

To celebrate our 11th 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.

  • The Scout
The Scout Mar 8, 2021 • 5 min read
VFX Challenge - The Rebelway FX Challenge
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VFX Challenge - The Rebelway FX Challenge

With over $13,000 worth of prizes up for grabs what's not to like about this challenge! We are really excited to bring this first ever FX contest to our community in partnership with Rebelway.

  • The Scout
The Scout Dec 15, 2020 • 4 min read
Substance Eddie Texturing Challenge - Winners Announced
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Substance Eddie Texturing Challenge - Winners Announced

Our first texturing challenge [https://www.therookies.co/contests/groups/substance-texturing-challenge-eddie-robot] required entrants to have a crack at using Substance Painter to texture Eddie Robot. There were a total of 150 entries and we had a great range of entries from all member levels which was really cool to see.

  • Alwyn Hunt
Alwyn Hunt Oct 14, 2020 • 1 min read
Substance Eddie Texturing Challenge Finalists Announced
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Substance Eddie Texturing Challenge Finalists Announced

Our first texturing challenge required entrants to have a crack at using Substance Painter to texture Eddie Robot.

  • Alwyn Hunt
Alwyn Hunt Oct 12, 2020 • 1 min read
Animation Challenge - Crazy in Quarantine
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Animation Challenge - Crazy in Quarantine

We’re expecting some pretty ‘out there’ animations with a theme like this. Extra points will be given to those that can make the judges laugh or cry!

  • The Scout
The Scout Sep 21, 2020 • 2 min read
Substance Texturing Challenge - Eddie Robot
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Substance Texturing Challenge - Eddie Robot

Looking to push your texturing skills and even have a crack at Substance Painter? Well, this is chance and we have an incredible asset ready for you to download and start playing with right away.

  • The Scout
The Scout Sep 2, 2020 • 2 min read

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