Category: Schools

The Rookies 2022 Winners Announced!!

July 31, 2022

Well, the 12th Annual Rookies Awards were announced on July 27th!

The Rookies Awards

The Awards are open to young creatives from over a ton of different areas from animation, vfx, concept, games, motion graphics, 3d visualizations, and many many more.

An impressive amount of entries from schools all over the world.

I was able to see some of the entries from New3dge School in Paris France this year.

Four impressive group shorts from the senior show for the 3D Animation and VFX disciplines.

These shorts were very impressive from all the groups. Amazing work from so many students.

Big congrats to Diane Nuty from Tribes group in winning for her Character: Newaya

Congrats to all the 2022 Rookies Winners, Runner Ups, and Applicants!!! There was a huge amount of impressive works this year!!! Can’t wait to see next years submissions!!

New3dge VFX Graduation Projects 2020

August 3, 2020

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I had the incredible honor of being part of VFX Graduation Projects 2020 for the Senior Projects at New3dge school.  It was supposed to take place at the school in Paris, France, but with Covid totally makes sense to cancel the in person gathering. The school was able to allow us access to the students’ work, breakdowns, and face time with the groups.  The Senior Projects are a bunch of shorts that a small group of students work on as team replicating a mini pipeline as they execute a highly caliber of work. The students of VFX/Animation graduation projects for 2020 were very impressive and produced really outstanding quality! So much great work and inspirational to see!

It was a great pleasure to interact with each team and talk about their projects and questions. The excitement of each team  was infectious and reminded me of my days back at school. New3dge school is doing an amazing job teaching their students to be ready for professional careers in VFX, Animation and Games.

Unfortunately I can’t share the projects that the students worked on yet. The School has them submitted to various festivals. Once I am allowed I’ll share the works with links.

What I can say is these shorts are worth checking out when I do! Below is a demo reel from the school with a sampling of what the quality of work the students there produce. You can watch previous Projects on it as well.

Sincere thanks to Fabien Roumazeilles and New3dge for allowing me to be part of this experience, and my friends Ryan Prestridge and Brian Lafrance for recommending me.