I thought I could write here something about me, but the first draft of my bio turned up too long.
So here is version
2.0:
I was born in a small town in Greece called Drama. Everyone
asks me at this point if things
were so "Dramatic" back
in my hometown. The truth is, the name "Drama" comes from
"Ydrama"
which is the ancient word for water spring,
you can even see it in English words like "hydro"
which you find in all compound words that express the existence
of water or liquid.
Anyway, enough with the language lessons, just
wanted to say that Drama wasn't Dramatic,
not until the year I
discovered 3D Animation. Then all of a sudden, my pretty hometown
shrunk
to pea size and I couldn't fit in there anymore. No
opportunities for a career there! So I thought I
give it a try
and go to the capital of Greece, Athens. Spent three years there
working at a production
studio doing commercials and also some
freelancing. But soon enough I realized that what I loved
most
was to create and animate CG Characters, and this was still a luxury
in Greece. So I left,
and I came to the US about five years ago.
These five years went by as fast as a week. During that
week many
things happened. I arrived in the US Monday morning. In the afternoon
I got hired by an
animation studio called "Out Of Our
Minds". On Tuesday we started the production of our first
Animated
feature film called "The Magistical" for which
I was assigned to do Character Animation for one
of the main
characters. On Wednesday I met my wife Sarah and we had a date. On
Thursday
we got married. Friday morning we found out that she was
pregnant! Friday afternoon, the movie
finished production.
It
all went by as fast as a week! So here I am, on the brink of a new
"week". A new chapter
in my life. I'm just 32 years old
and I think my life is starting all over again. There are so many
things to do. I'm continuing to do animation as a freelance
Character Animator at this point.
It probably won't pay the bills
at first, so its a good thing that the first 7 years of my career
I
worked mostly as a generalizer, which means I can tackle everything
that a CG animation
production demands.
So thats it about me!
I hope I didn't bore you to death. :-)
You may as well look at
some
of my personal photos if you made it that far.
Again thanks for
visiting and please come again!