{"id":2281,"date":"2019-02-07T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2021-08-04T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:23:52","slug":"nick-ladd-wins-rookie-of-the-year-award-from-therookies-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/graduate-achievements\/nick-ladd-wins-rookie-of-the-year-award-from-therookies-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Ladd wins &#8220;Rookie of the Year&#8221; Award from TheRookies.co"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therookies.co\/2018-results\/winners\/virtual-reality\/\">Nick Ladd (graduated 2018) won the \u201dRookie of the Year\u201d award in the Virtual Reality category from TheRookies.co<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before graduating, Nick was already working as a freelance artist on the side, after having earned a DEC in Illustration at Dawson college.<\/p>\n<p>Nick worked hard to learn cutting-edge VR tools and techniques on his own time, while simultaneously studying 3D Animation &amp; CGI at Dawson.\u00a0 He regularly posted his work publicly, and built an online following.\u00a0 He soon became our resident expert on animating in VR, and generously shared his knowledge with both faculty and students alike.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no surprise to us that he won this award, and we are very proud to count him among our alumni.<\/p>\n<p>His work can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/nickladd\">artstation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchfab.com\/Nicktheladd\">sketchfab<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCidoVYoo2VG2CdjR76R2YBw?ab_channel=NickLadd\">youtube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/nickladd\">vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Nick Ladd (graduated 2018) won the \u201dRookie of the Year\u201d award in the Virtual Reality category from TheRookies.co Before graduating, Nick was already working as a freelance artist on the side, after having earned a DEC in Illustration at Dawson college. Nick worked hard to learn cutting-edge VR tools and techniques on his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}