{"id":6758,"date":"2020-08-31T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:12:10","slug":"the-rookies-10-years-young-and-still-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/the-rookies-10-years-young-and-still-going-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rookies &#8211; 10 Years young and still going strong"},"content":{"rendered":"Another group of winning artists from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rookies<\/a><\/em>\u2019 annual art and design contest is in the books and, for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom<\/a> was honored to be a prize sponsor for this wonderful creative contest that brings artists together from around the world. Winners from five categories \u2013 Visual Effects, Game Development, Concept Art, 3D Animation and 2D Animation \u2013 were sent Intuos Pro tablets. In addition to Wacom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/about\/sponsors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of other sponsors<\/a> from some of the world\u2019s finest organizations, banded together to support <em>The Rookies<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/groups\/rookie-awards-2020\/judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The judging panel<\/a>, made up of a large group of industry experts, filtered through 3,769 entries to arrive at the following winners. Check out the links below to see the winning entries and other finalists' work.\n<ul>\n \t<li>Visual Effects, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charly<\/a> (Belgium)<\/li>\n \t<li>Game Development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert McCall<\/a> (Canada)<\/li>\n \t<li>Concept Art, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quentin Marsollier<\/a> (France)<\/li>\n \t<li>3D Animation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Schaefer<\/a> (United States)<\/li>\n \t<li>2D Animation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/contests\/46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diego Porral<\/a> (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<em>The Rookies<\/em>, established in 2010, is a community for non-professional digital artists. Whether a student or hobbyist, <em>The Rookies<\/em> online community is created\u00a0 to help people become better artists, learn new skills and network with others who also have a passion for art and design. <em>The Rookies<\/em> offers users a cool way to showcase their work to the world. The custom built tools within <em>The Rookies<\/em> site allows users to upload everything they need \u2013 images, videos and galleries.\n\nTo learn more about <em>The Rookies<\/em>, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-to-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}