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A long time ago. Actually, I graduated from photography and now I just want to transition it to gaming and light, where my photography skills also can be of some help

I have always been interested in pursuing a career in the creative industry since my early teenage years .

I first realized I wanted to work in the creative industries when I was finishing up high school and working a labor-intensive part-time job. At that point, I felt the need to find a career path that truly resonated with passions. After sitting on it for a while, it occurred to me that I should pursue what I genuinely enjoy. That's when I decided to transform my hobby, gaming, into something more meaningful—a career in the creative industries!

Growing up as a little girl I always wanted to be an Architect and build things. After I grew up I started to develop a love and passion for video games and creative visual work. I love creating and building environments and 3d stuff. The rest is history now :)

During lockdown in 2020, I decided to use the time in isolation to pursue hobbies and interests I had no time for beforehand. After several months playing around with software on my own, I enrolled with Vertex schools Game Arts program to learn environment art in the hopes of starting a career.

When I was 22, during the pandemic when I feel deeply in love with gaming

I have always been intrigued by the behind-the-scenes videos of movies and games. Initially, my aspiration was to become a concept artist, but I later discovered the world of 3D and have been pursuing it ever since.

My fondest memory was in middle school when with the help of my friends, I created Blincks, a role playing game featuring Elas, Ignis, Aumia, and Amor as main characters. We also drew Djouba Badjinji another character displayed as their mortal enemy. It may have been an amateurish start, but it kindled in me a passion to create and design fictional worlds.

I've been into art as long as I can remember and video games since I played my first one as a small child. I love playing games very much but when I do, I can’t help but want to make them, more than anything. I’ve never been the kind of person who was content to sit by and consume media. No, I am and have always been a creator.

I have had a long-standing desire to work in the entertainment industry, dating back to 2010. However, due to influence from my family and others around me, I ended up pursuing a different career path. In 2022, I made the decision to change my career and pursue my passion of becoming a 3D character artist.

When I picked up my first Nintendo game in elementary school.

Since I was a child I was amaze by the charactars from any entertainment media, first i tried to be a 2D concept character artist and then move on to do the same but in 3D. In college was the first time i had my hands on zbrush and Maya since then I keep learning the tools and more softwares.

I've always been passionate about creating stuff. I've been playing games for 15 years+ I've got deeply attracted by 3D Arts back in 2017, while I was working as a QA Tester for EA Games. I've said to myself that it would be really awesome if I could create my own game characters, my own narrative, always keep myself up-to-date with the CG industry, and always learn along this long journey! Knowledge is power!

I've always been involved in the creative arts, with a love of film, video games and books. I graduated with a Creative Writing degree at Bangor University. But over time instead of conveying stories through words, I wanted to be able to visually create these stories through my own lens.

Personally was a process where I went from studying physics to heading towards the entertainment industry. I have always enjoyed spending time playing video games and doing creative stuff like drawing and playing musical instruments, among other things, but the very first moment I realized it was when I completed my first year of physics. I remember being outside of the university building and think " hold on a minute, is this what puts a smile on your face and makes you joyful?".

I realized I would like to do game art since I played The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind

This is my childhood dream. I always wanted to see what I have imagined. And Animation is the only way to fulfill my dream.

Every since I was young, I was very passionate about art. I remember animating stick figures in a stick figure program. I graduated and studied Electrical Eng. instead, didn't go well. During covid I realized there where animation online school, flexible and promising. So I jumped the ship and I am starting from square one learning animation. I'm excited to see how far my journey will take me.

My story is a little different. I am switching to this career after earning a Masters in Science and Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and working in vocational rehabilitation and counseling for individuals with disabilities. This was a fulfilling career path. However, growing up I was fascinated by animation, video game, and film art production. After a number of years of dabbling in Zbrush as hobby I decided to go full force and take this passion to the next level!!

6 years ago, except I was working in the film and digital media industry, I realized I wanted to be an environment artist 2 years ago.

I started off as a music student, jumped over to graphic design when I couldn't afford Full Sail. Spent 9 Years learning graphic design, UI ,branding, story telling. Once I started working in the field as a designer I quickly discovered I had a yearning to do more things in 3D and begun to dabble in 3D. After a year or 2 of self training I signed up for GAI character artist bootcamp. Now im taking the 9 Month Game Art track. Im excited to learn how to do characters for games and hopefully Code.