I am a fourth-year student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and am currently studying Chemistry. My interest in art began with the COVID-19 quarantine when I picked up 3D art as a pass time. All the work I have done has been through Blender a 3D modeling and rendering software primarily, but I have used some other programs to create custom textures or edit the images after rendering.

Most of my original inspiration came from Andrew Price, known as Blenderguru on youtube. I used his videos, and a few others’, to learn how to use blender then once I felt I had a good understanding I simply began attempting to replicate the art I saw on Reddit. Now I tend to just browse Reddit and get inspiration from them or to just have an idea pop into my head that grabs my interest.

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My focus tends to be on replicating real-life by either imitating images or creating entirely fake items intended to fool the viewer. Personally, what I enjoy the most is being able to show my friends and family a render I made and have them be surprised that it is not real and hear the feedback they give me on how I can improve it. My approach tends to be to find an image or scene that I find interesting and then attempting to replicate the results in a 3D environment of my own making. This does not always work but gives me the material to create my own spin on the piece. For example, I tried to recreate a scene from inception with the spinning top but couldn’t get results I liked so instead I simplified it into a nice looping animation that I am proud of.