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I love movies and videogames and I've always been curious to learn how to make them instead of just playing games or watching movies, I decided I wanted to be part of this industry, I would like to work for a great movie/game and be proud of what I've learnt and made

I have been already exposed by vfx and 3D animation film such as Harry Potter, Star wars and Toy story series since I was kid. The interest in creative media has been developed all time along with those precious experience.

I've always loved learning new creative skills, and I've worked in several different creative industries throughout my life. I became interested in learning 3D art while working as a designer, and in 2020 I returned to my former school to study a Bachelor of 3D Art & Animation. I graduated with a split major in asset creation & look development in 2022. I love to create evocative environments, and especially enjoy creating layouts, models, textures, and lighting.

I've always been a creative kid, raised on the likes of modded source engine games and minecraft. I also spent my childhood getting in trouble for adding comedic and creative elements to assessments where they didn't fit (even if they made sense to me!) This eventually led to having a side interest in environment and weapon art. At the time, I didn't know it could be turned into a job until the end of year 9 and ever since that fateful day, that's been my passion.

When I first watched the 'Making Magic' cd that came with my 'Yoda Stories' game, I knew that's what I wanted to do. 3 Years ago, I decided to make it happen by undertaking a Bachelor of 3d art and Animation at Design Centre Enmore with Animation as my elective and devoted myself to learning as much as I could about cg production. I have just completed my course and looking forward to the next steps.

I've always loved creating stories. I have been working as a graphic designer and decided to learn 3d to expand my creative possibilities.

Few years ago when I realise that I needed a change in career. I was a senior project administrator in an instituition, but realised that I wanted to engage in something more creative. I decided to put myself through training. Along the way I dabbled with fine art, concept art, 3D and finally in compositing. Realising that I can blend my artistic skills with compositing, I develop a strong passion for VFX and have never looked back since.

Every since I was a kid I have loved creating monster, creatures and aliens, so when I found out you could do that for a living that's when I wanted to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.

I realised I wanted to work in the creative industry when I left Poland and moved to Australia. I've found out that there are plenty of colleges and schools teaching 3D art and concept art. I loved video games since I remember, as well as drawing, so I decided to pursue my passion at Design Centre Enmore at Sydney TAFE.

When I was in primary school and realized I would have to work to survive

Like all children, I had a creative flair, but the goal of working was cemented in 2017 after watching BTS videos from "The Thing" 2011. I decided that I wanted to make monsters, and I wanted to be able to bring them to life. So I studied production design for 3 years, with an additional year focused purely on the art side of things.

When I was a child, my dad would always tease me about being an adopted lion cub who turned into a human. “It’s true!” he would say, “Your tail disappeared first, then the cat ears, finally the whiskers, and then you became a tiny human baby.” My dad would add new details each time he told me this story, and it made for some of my most amusing childhood memories. As silly as it was, I believe this is what instilled in me a love of storytelling, a passion for creativity, and the desire to be in a

During my youth, my uncle was running a shop, importing Japanese and Chinese video games, comics, and DVDs, sparking my love for creativity. I'd explore the colorful shelves, lost in the worlds of these creative mediums, that I realized my deep connection to storytelling, visual design, and animation. This first led me to study graphic design. Yet, my longing for animation and VFX persisted, driving me to pursue Screen and Media studies, turning my childhood passion into a career aspiration.

It was never a choice to go into an art related industry, I just knew it was inevitable because of how much passion and love I have towards making art. I have so many dreams over so many fields of creativity, it’d be impossible to write them all.

From a very early age, it's been my passion since I was a kid. I grew up in a family of creatives who all worked in some degree of creative work which inspired me to follow my own passion

It was about 3 years ago while I was living in Thailand with my parents and I was working on my own side projects learning and developing my skills myself and I realized that I really wanted to become something in post-production. So I moved out at 17 and flew to Australia to go to Tafe and work on my diploma and other skills I never knew I could do.

It started when I was younger, I always had an act for drawing but then I found a video on game making and watched it because I was curious and fell in love with the idea of making a game, I started doing personal research but tried making one game by myself, but I was still at a very low point on how to actually make one. Therefore, for my first studies, I went to Tafe QLD. I'm continuing studying for a bachelor's degree in game design and wish to improve my talents further.

I have always wanted to work in a creative field, and have always admired digital artwork, for years wanted to learn how to create some myself so have begun the steps and process of learning

After running around heaps of open world games, I dream of creating beautiful landscapes that players can get lost in. The desire to be part of the worlds I dream of is what motivates me to learn and create even more.

i took film at school from years 10-12 and fell inlove with the creative process, espesially being facinated by editing and post production. I am now doing a diploma in post production at TAFE in my gap year.

When I played Life is Strange, I realized that I want to create an amazing game like this. It would be cool if I saw my own name in the end credit.