I would spend most of my day practicing modeling, rendering, and animation for school, but always made time for ZBrush, and would usually practice my sculpting skills well into the night. It seemed so much less technical and more enjoyable than pushing vertices around in Maya, but I knew that one complemented the other, so I made sure not to neglect the more technical side of 3D. I was so fired up about improving my skills and making actual characters, that I would spend hours watching timelapses and tutorials on YouTube, and was immediately drawn to sculpting. I discovered ZBrush the very first week I started learning the basics of 3D. Since then, I’ve worked on dozens of projects – before moving to the US I worked at “Jelly Button Games” on the mobile games “Pirate Kings” and “Board Kings”, but since becoming a freelancer in November 2018 I’ve had the pleasure of working on several high-profile franchises, which unfortunately I can’t share as they have not yet been announced! I took a short “Introduction to Maya” course and 8 months later, I got my first job as a 3D artist. I reached out to him, and after a lengthy conversation I decided to quit my job and devote myself entirely to 3D art.

I’ve been drawing from a very early age, but 3D modeling was something that seemed so technical and foreign to me, that I really didn’t know where or how to get started.ħ years ago, I was working as a banker and had all but given up hope of being an artist, when I read an article in the newspaper about an Israeli who moved to the US and was now working for Dreamworks as an animator. 3D art is something I’ve been deeply passionate about since my childhood – I remember constantly rotating around 3D character models in video games and trying to figure out how they were created.

Hi there! My name is Dan Eder, I currently reside in California, but I’m originally from Israel.

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