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 Featured 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.
News Featured Announcement: 2021 Best Creative Media & Entertainment Art Schools in the World We are excited to announce our 11th annual ranking lists naming the Top 50 schools offering programs in game design, animation, visual effects, concept art, motion graphics and architectural visualisation.
News Win an Autodesk license, Epic Games merch and 1-on-1 Mentorship Win big! The sweepstake is open to all self-taught artists, students and recent graduates who want to work in creative media and entertainment industries like games, film, animation and design.
Resources Featured Free Maya Rig - Knight Spider Knight Spider is one of the most incredible free Maya rigs available. The concept design and 3D asset was created by Rookie Alumni, Tayfur.
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).
News Rookies Update - Activity Streams, New Contest and Learning Playbooks Now that everyone can breathe a little bit after another massive Rookie Awards, I thought it would be a good idea to update you on a few things. We have released a few new tools on the website, have an awesome new contest about to drop, and also some free learning playbooks for beginners on its way.
News Weta Digital - Summer Undergraduate Artist Internships Most people dream of working at a place like Weta Digital, but never really think it's possible. The good news is, they are currently looking to fill their Summer Undergraduate Artist Internships.
News Live Animation Demo Reel Reviews For anybody that is interested in getting their 3D animation reviewed or would just like some feedback then we have industry expert Robyn Daly offering her services to anybody that is a registered Rookies member.
News Rookie Awards 2021 - Winner Showcase Video Check out all the amazing winners of the Rookie Awards 2021. This video is a showcase of winning entries for Rookie of the Year, Film of the Year and Game of the Year.
Resources Featured Free Character Animation FX Scene Created by Rebelway FX, we are honoured to share one of the greatest assets we've seen shared for free with the public. This amazing asset pack is filled with everything you need to level-up your own FX skills using Houdini.
Resources Featured Free 3D Model: Eddie Robot Created by Paul Braddock, we are stoked to be able to share this incredibly famous robot creation. We just love Eddie. He has so much charisma and attitude that he should have his own movie or Netflix Series. About the Artist Eddie is the creation of Paul Braddock, a talented
Resources Featured Free 3D Model: Kombi Van Created by Christina Ryan, we are happy to share this absolutely stunning 3D model of a Kombi van. The model is 100% ready for production and is a perfect asset to download to not only see how a model should be created, but also to use as a texturing project.
News Winner Announced - Adobe Substance 3D - Virtual Photography Create a photorealistic render using only the default 3D models, materials, lighting and renderer provided in Adobe Substance 3D Stager
News Winners Announced - Flash Gordon Modeling Contest For this challenge entrants were asked to create a 3D model of their favourite Flash Gordon characters based on concept designs created by one of our Rookies, Giuseppe Di Stasio.
News The Creative Starter Kit Giveaway winner for 2021 is... We received loads of instagram post of people sharing their entries. These were dumped into a Google Spreadsheet where a random entry was chosen. That incredibly lucky winner is: