Hello! (the 7 years later edition)
Oh gosh where to start... hello? Not sure anyone's around?
It's been so, so long, wow. Almost 7 years to the date since I created this blog? So many things changed since then.
After resisting for a long time, I took a friend's advice to go back to school and study 3D almost on a whim. Ironically that's what I originally was going to do at 19... life has a funny way to run in circles sometimes. So yeah, in 2019 I sent my application to an, at the time, really top notch Game Art school in Stockholm with zero 3D in my portfolio and tossed everything up to chance. Somehow I got in anyway and in February 2020 I first opened Autodesk Maya with a project requiring us to have a room modeled within a week. A week later everything got locked-down so the rest of my schooling was remote. It was a baptism by fire, for sure, but I bit the bullet and never stopped. After 1 and a half years I started off in an indie studio as an intern- where halfway through my internship I was left as the only 3D artist- and got hired after my internship was over. When the game released I moved to an AA game company - I'm still here now. Things change in the industry fast so all my free time was spent mainly keeping up with new tech and software, optimization etc. But hey, I'm doing good. I got a ton of new skills and now, actually a bit more free time.
For the last year and a half I was dabbling in fandom again, mainly on Discord, Twitter and Bsky and... stuff's changed, dang. Some is good some is bad some is... it just is hah. Life's a bit crazy isn't it?
Not to prattle on; I want to give tumblr another go. This is where I met the love of my life that I'm married to now, this is where I drew everything and anything that came to mind and, in retrospect, hit some crazy benchmarks in terms of art. It was fun. I'm hopeful things can keep on keeping on from here on.