Do you have a background in 3D design or are you self taught?
I am completely self taught in 3D and to be honest these wasn’t really much formal training in 3D in the late 1980s. I left school at 15 and went onto a stop motion course with no qualification at the end. That rolled into my first job in a steelworks in the print department with a career path that would have seen me become a draughtsman. I picked up some commercial graphics qualifications along the way but I bought a house when I was 18 and the pressure of that drove me to find work that paid the mortgage, and sadly at that time there wasn’t much in the way of work for us unqualified artists in the Northwest of England. I went into a more mundane job which led to some management qualifications and I do honestly think that was a great thing for my development. Being an artist is one thing, but being able to run a small business is a completely different skill set and this time in the ‘real world’ set me up for that I think.
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