| I was born in 1986, about one year after Mario set out on that fateful journey to rescue his princess. As I’ve grown up I’ve watched video games evolve from the 8-bit days of the NES all the way up to the 3d, normal mapped, bloom lit standards of today.
Games have always had a huge impact on me, and it was during the days of the SNES that I decided I wanted to design them. Somebody out there had the job of making these games, and it was a job I wanted.
I pursued my interests in art all through school and by the time I was ready to graduate college game design programs began to spring up around the country.
The closest school with a good game design program was The Art Institute of Pittsburgh- 8 hours away from my home in Clifton Park, NY. After 3 years, I have gone from having hardly touched a PC to being proficient in many programs and able to create many forms of digital art including 3D quality game assets.
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