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Rocío Pena Romero is a Junior Illustrator and Concept Artist from Spain, that has been in love with videogames and animation from childhood.

David Blaya, a Lightbox Academy alumnus, is a 3D Lookdev Artist at MPC Film London's Character Lab. David sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

Nadya Sugiarto is a Ringling College of Art and Design alumna, making tracks in Visual Effects as a Previs Artist at MPC LA. She sits down with us to share her journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting start to a career like her own.

Claudio Quatela is a 22 year-old 3D Artist specialising in Environment Art and he sits down with us to today give his advice for other aspiring Artists looking to join the Games industry.

Steve Biggert shares his journey and advice to other aspiring artists looking to start their careers in 3D Motion Design and Animation.

The Rookies today released its 12th annual ranking lists naming the Top 50 Creative Media & Entertainments Schools in the World.

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Want a successful career working as a 3D Artist for Video Games? Anson Ng Lee Ming sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

Andrea Savchenko is a Character Artist at Epic Games. Andrea started out with a traditional art background, who took on the field of real-time 3D art for games because she wants to build the coolest games of tomorrow.

Brennan sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring image makers, looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.

Depending on the day, sometimes we are troubleshooting ambitious ideas, or we could be handing out scripts to the board artists, or we could be checking all our designs before sending them to our vendor studios to build. Every day is different with its own flavour.

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Want a successful career working as a 3D Modeler? Bellecour alumni, Julie Tardieu, is a Modeling Lead at Digital Domain, Montreal, and she sits down with us to share her journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like her own.

Want a successful career working as a Junior 3D Animator? Ian Lade, recently completing a Master of Animation and Visualisation at the UTS Animal Logic Academy, is a Junior Animator at Luma Pictures.

In this article Ivo Sissolak, a Sound Designer at IOI Malmö, working on the HITMAN 3 release, shares his experience working in Game Development in cities abroad.

Want a successful career working as an Concept Artist in Games? Zach Cohen is a Syn Studio alumnus and Concept Artist at Ubisoft headquarters in Montréal. Zach sits down with us to share his journey and advice to aspiring artists looking for an exciting and challenging career like his own.‌

Everyone seems to be talking about soft skills these days and it's for good reason too. They really can be the difference between a long and success career, and one spent sitting on the sidelines not being asked to play.

Digital artists in film, games, animation and design industries are reliant on diplomas and degrees to prove their skills and competencies when applying for entry-level roles.

For many digital artists, the clearest and most direct path to a job is through a certified training program. Unfortunately, not all training programs are created equal and becoming a Certified Digital Artist is your secret weapon.

The assessment methodologies for Certified Digital Artist (CDA) applicants has remained consistent with our initial investigations and focus group studies.

Certified Digital Artist (CDA) has been broken down into 5 main stages to help provide a clear roadmap and achievable milestones.

Based on all the information we collected via phone calls, focus groups and online surveys with our extensive list of industry contacts, we have formalised this information and released the first draft for public review.

The Rookies set out to create an open source archive that will standardise skills for digital artists on a global stage. The archive will outline essential creative and technical skills required by all artists, before applying for industry jobs.