I was born on November 30th in 1974 in a town called Gravesend in England. When I was 13 I moved to a town on the Kent coast called Ramsgate, where I still live today.
I starting taking painting seriously when I was about 15 and have been painting professionally since I was 17. I mostly learned how to paint by copying paintings of old masters like Leonardo da Vinci, and English artists like Turner and Constable, which I use to sell in a local gallery, They always use to sell well.
They was always sold as copies of old masters paintings, I always use to sell more of them then my original work, but I never minded I have always enjoyed painting and its nice being able to make a living doing something that you enjoy.

I had always been interested in 3d art and the wonderful CG effects in movies, but had no idea how it was made or what even programs they used.
I kind of fell into it by accident really, I was making some simple flash animations for a website and I happened to see some flash movies that had used the program poser this interested me and I got hold of the program and made a few flash animations using it for another website.
At that time someone mentioned the program Maya, a program I had never heard of before, I got hold of the trial of the program and I found it very interesting and deciding that I wanted to learn 3d.
I thought I should try out all the high-end programs out their before choosing which one, and after trying out all the 3d programs out their I decided on the first one I had tried Maya.
I started using Maya in September 2001. so far I have really enjoyed using Maya and hope I can go on improving my 3d work.

Julian_J 23/10/2002