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I always wanted to work in creative industries, but for past 3 years I was able to learn what I want to specialise in.

Since I was a teenager. I spent my childhood drawing and then got into photography which led to cinematography. After studying for Director of Photography and Color grading, I went for a bachelor's in Game Design and Graphics specializing in 3D art.

I've always enjoyed working creatively with different mediums, such as 3D modelling, drawing, music production, storytelling (the list never ends). Games incorporate all the creative outlets listed above. For me, game development is the perfect way to work with all the things I love. The feeling of seeing people play and enjoy my games is unbeatable.

I've been wanting to have a career in the creative field for a long time. With my main source of inspiration for that was my dad, who was a professional designer, my grandfather was a professional painter along with my father's industry friends who we were close to. They showed me a closer look at the creative industry, heavily inspired me to the possibility of a path in the world, and taught me that with time and discipline a life in the creative world is attainable.

I have always wanted to be a painter, but when my brother encouraged me to go to a game jam I knew I wanted to make games.

I first realized I wanted to created games when I was in High School. I was studying web development, which I still enjoy, but I never really got that great feeling of accomplishment from. During my third year I branched off to application development to try my hands at something new. I found the game engine Unity 3D and created my first little 2D RPG game. It was very simple and the mechanics sucked, but I was very proud of it. That's when I realized I wanted to created games for a living.

A few years ago, I visited my friends at their university in Redmond (DigiPen). They were making this game prototype, that later was taken to GDC. This prototype had literally a sandbox where you could create an environment by moving the sand around. I was mesmerized, how could they make this? I spent so much time there just creating, It was so mind blowing. I remember getting so inspired and started wanting to make experiences for other people as well.

At a young age i realized that i wanted to do games, wasn't shure on what at that point but later on i realized that i wanted to work with 3D. To get a message through once art to reach the other individual across the world is a dream i want to make a reality.