News 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.
News Rookie Awards 2022 - Entries are Closed Congratulations to everyone that uploaded their incredible work to Rookie Awards 2022. We know it takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there and show the world what you've been working on.
News 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.
News 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.
News A Compact Desktop That Delivers on Performance: Dell's Precision 3650 Tower Workstation Rookie Awards sponsor Dell, is giving away a Precision 3650 Tower Workstation with RTX A5000 GPU. Let's take a deeper look at how this compact desktop, packs a very big punch.
News Using Multifunctional Tools Like 3ds Max to Bring Your Creative Ideas to Life From intricate details on 3D characters and props to jaw-dropping environments and worlds, 3ds Max® software is the tool of choice for creating immersive game experiences and visualizing complex designs.
News ZBrush is Now Part of the Maxon Family Cinema 4D has been powering Rookie Awards entries over the last few years, and now Maxon can also be proud of the entries that boast the use of ZBrush, with the official acquisition of the Academy Award-winning sculpting and painting software at the start of 2022.
News How Teradici is Securing the Hybrid Workplace and Learning Environment Companies are turning away from VPN in favor of Zero Trust Architecture as hybrid workplaces and learning environments become the new norm. To learn more about their findings, VMblog spoke with Teradici's distinguished technologist, Ian Main.
News 15 Career Opportunities for Junior Digital Artists are up for grabs Starting a career in creative industries is not easy. This is why The Rookies has pulled together 15 incredible opportunities designed to help you get the break that you deserve.
News Top Studios and Industry Experts join forces to create first Certification for Digital Artists We are proud to announce the launch of Certified Digital Artist, the industry’s first certification for digital artists in animation, visual effects and games, grounded in its competency framework for entry-level positions for production environments.
News 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!
News 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.
News Rookie Awards 2022 - The 12th annual contest for aspiring creative media artists is open It's time to show the world your skills, as entries are now open for Rookie Awards 2022. In its 12th year, the contest is for aspiring artists who want to give their careers a boost in the fields of visual effects, animation, games, VR, motion graphics, concept art and design.
News 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.
News 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.
News Rookie Awards 2022 - Are you ready? The Rookie Awards 2022 kicks off in 30 days, so it's the perfect time to get yourself ready. For those of you new to this, the Awards is an annual contest open to young creatives in film, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3d visualisation.
Contests 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.
News 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.
News 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.
Contests 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.
News Coming Soon - The Industries First Ever Certification for Digital Artists Lawyers have to "pass the bar", so why shouldn't creative industries have a similar benchmark?
News 60 Industry Pros are Ready to Answer Your Questions We recently survey a few thousands digital artists and one of the number one things they wanted was to be able to chat with pros. It makes total sense too, as it's all I ever wanted when I was starting out.
News Development Update: Homepage Overhauled, One-Page Profiles and Blazing New Servers. The Development team has been quietly rolling out a bunch of new improvements to The Rookies platform. We have overhauled the homepage, created some flashy new one-page profiles and even redone our About Us page so it actually makes a sense.
News 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.
News Development Update: Project Sorting We have just released a new feature to help make you Portfolio look the way you want it. You can now take full control over the order in which people will see your projects.