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I have always had a passion for storytelling that drove me study film and continue improving my skills focused on 3D lighting for film and animation.

I have always loved to watch the behind scenes from the movies and during an interview with the VFX Supervisor from David Fincher’s Zodiac, he mentions the challenges of re-creating San Francisco in the 70s. That totally blew my mind. I did not know that this kind of VFX work was possible, and how rewarding the invisible work of VFX can be.

I want to do FX for film since I was young. When I first watch the movie , it drag me to the new world. But, I didn't have a chance to do it. Now I follow my dream

It has been always an excitement for to work on creative stuff always. It could be shooting, editing, designs , VFX and more. I always practice each tool and understand it so it helped me learn so much about how to approach for problem solving through severally methods. It’s the only thing I do and want to keep learning more.

I was always fascinated by CGI on various media. Animating primitive shapes to drop with same speed as gravity was my very first experience with Maya and I had my mind blown. After some research, I have found that VFX industry involves everything that I am passionate about such as filming, modeling, compositing and texturing and that was the moment that I realized that it is the path that I wanted to take.

It was around grade 9 summer break. I had an opportunity to learn Autodesk Maya to create 3D model. Then I realized that I truely in love recreating asset in 3D. Two years after. I had an opportunity to represent my city, Macao to complete an international 3D character design tournament. Even though I didn't get any award but I set my vision for my future. I want and will work in entertainment industry as a CG creater.

When I watched Avengers for the first time, I realized this is what I want to do!

I first realized I wanted to work in the creative digital space of film and entertainment when I was around 10 years old. I had made a bunch of silly videos with my cousins to play backwards on out Wii. I took those videos when I got home from visiting and turned them into a (terrible) short film. Since then I've evolved into adding effects, and deeper stories. In Today I'm focusing on making my visual effects professional-grade, so I can tell my stories better.

I always to be apart of this industry, whether it was on set or behind the scenes. I love to create and design worlds It was games like Destiny and movies like District 9 that made me want to pursue "movie magic" as they say.

I started in a foundation program to be a film maker. Then I stumble upon VFX in a beginner class. I realized I liked to achieve the visual that are not able to complete in camera.

Since I was doing it as a hobby as a child and then realized I could do it for a living.

After watching The Hobbit, and all the appendices for those movies. I got to learn a lot about some aspects of the VFX industry from WETA. As well as what goes into shooting a VFX movie. Another big inspiration for me was Star Wars. I always thought all the models in Star Wars were so intricate and amazing.