Inspiration

How to Paint and Lookdev a Spaceship Using Mari

Learn how to paint and lookdev a detailed spaceship asset using Mari, with Gal Ravid-Tal, an IAC-(The Israeli Animation College) alumnus and 3D generalist at YASHINSKI Visual Effects Studio.

Inspiration

Red Hair Girl: Creating a Stylised 3D Character with Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter and XGen

Simón Betancur Baghino is a 3D character artist that has finished his studies at Animum 3D School. He recently shared an incredible project entitled Red Hair Girl, and we jumped at the chance to learn more about it which is shared below.

Learning

How to Create 3D Hair and Fur for Iconic Pokémon Characters

In this article, Xgen enthusiast, Kapil Rawat, shares his learnings as he experiments with 3D fur for iconic cartoon characters. If you are a fan of Pokémon and you are curious about how to create a groom for your own characters, this article is for you!

Inspiration

Two films from ESMA win Oscar Qualifying Awards

We are super excited to announce that two short film entries that were submitted to the Rookie Awards 2021 have won qualifying awards for the Academy Awards, that much smaller relatively unknown Awards ;)

Inspiration

Top 50 Digital Characters for 2021

Incredible character designs are uploaded to The Rookies every day. They range from 2D sketches of fantasy character, to detailed 3D digital doubles, and a little bit in-between

Careers

Career Advice - Working as a Full Stack Engineer for a Tech Startup

Want a successful career working as a Full stack Engineer? Charles Frederic Atienza, a Full Stack Engineer at Tech Startup, Jala, in Singapore, shares his journey and advice to aspiring Engineers and Developers looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

Inspiration

Top GPU powered projects created with OctaneRender

This week I took a dig into our member projects to see who is using GPU power to create their projects.

Featured Members

Award Winners - Portfolio of the Week

Winners #14: With over 35,000 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 round of amazing portfolios that shows a great range of skills, a creative eye and solid technical skills.

Careers

How Do You Land a Job in VFX, Games and Animation?

CG Spectrum's Career Development Manager, Maxine Schnepf, talks about her role and how she has helped kickstart many a career in VFX, Games and Animation.

Inspiration

Wet Olive Saloon: Creating a Wild West-Steampunk Scene in 3D

Ana Barrós Calvete, an Architect and 3D Artist from A Coruña, Spain, aims to inspire other 3D Artists who would like to challenge themselves by creating intricate environments and visualisations in 3D.

Inspiration

Handcrafting a Stylised VR Film Experience

In this article, Nick Rutten discusses his technical and directorial approach to creating a sylised VR film.

Inspiration

Achieving Realistic Skin Details With Manual Sculpting in Zbrush

Want to achieve realistic skin details for your 3D Portraits? Parth Shah, a Modeling TD at Double Negative, explains how to achieve realistic skin details using manual sculpting techniques in Zbrush.

Inspiration

Lighting and Compositing a Futuristic Cityscape

Thomas Eckstein, a Lighting/LookDev Artist at TRIXTER, shares his breakdown of how to create a stylised futuristic cityscape by pushing the boundaries of look development, lighting and compositing.

Inspiration

So You Wanna Make Games?

A 10-part educational series that tells you straight up everything you need to know. With quick foundational lessons, examples and interviews with real working artists, they debunk the myths behind what it’s really like to work on video games.

Learning

Learn How to Make Realistic Props for Games

Aspiring to join the gaming industry, 3D Artist Kartikeya's focus has been to hone his existing skills and learn new ones, producing jaw-dropping models in between. This is a great article to read if you are wanting to learn how to make realistic game-ready props for your 3D Art portfolio.

Learning

Fundamentals for Lighting 3D Animated Scenes

Ivan Pechalin, a Lighting Artist and 3D Animation & VFX Student at PIXLVISN Media Arts Academy, takes us through the fundamental of lighting to create a stand-out lighting piece for your portfolio.

Inspiration

How to Create Award Winning Motion Graphics For Your Portfolio

David Inlines, a VFX Arist at Gameloft and Rookie of The Year 2020 Runner Up in the 3D Motion Graphics category, gives us some insight into how to create an award-winning motion graphics piece for your 3D and FX portfolio.

Inspiration

How to Create a Compelling Real-Time Fantasy Character

If you are embarking on your first real-time character, this article is for you! Vanessa Mai takes us through her process of creating compelling real-time fantasy characters for games.

Learning

Realistic Vehicle Modeling and Texturing Using Unreal Engine 5

Romain Maistre-Bazin is a Vehicle Artist for Ubisoft Ivory Tower in Lyon, France. In this article he will show you his process of creating a realistic vehicle using Maya, Substance Painter and Unreal Engine 5.

News

Product Review: XP-PEN Artist 22 (2nd Generation) Pen Display Monitor

With so many options available, choosing a Graphics Tablet and Display is not easy. To help make things easier, we reached out to XP-Pen to review one of their most popular displays - XP-PEN Artist 22 (2nd Generation).

Careers

Career Advice - Working as a Previs Artist with Jiamin Wu

In this article, Jiamin Wu shares her journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like her own.

Learning

Look Development, Lighting and Compositing of a Photorealistic Still Life Scene

Thomas Eckstein is a Lighting/LookDev Artist at TRIXTER. In this article he shares his tips to creating a photorealistic still life scene fit for your lighting and compositing portfolio.

Careers

Career Advice - Working as a 3D Artist for a Video Game Publisher

Anson Ng Lee Ming, a graduate from 3D Sense Media School is a 3D Artist at Bandai Namco Studios (BNSS) in Singapore. He sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

Inspiration

How to Achieve Realism in Your 3D Portraits

Raphael Pfyffer, a 3D Modeler and Alumnus of Lucerne School of Art and Design, practices his craft by creating unbelievably realistic 3D characters. In this article Raphael shares with us how he created this digital portrait of Ellen Ripley, character and protagonist of the Alien film series.

Inspiration

Hanging Gardens: Creating a Semi-stylized Environment

Maria Martinez a graphic designer from Spain, explains how she created a Semi-stylized Environment in Substance Painter and Substance Designer