I had been working as a traditional painter - By the end of 2004 I was pretty disillusioned with making paintings and then a pretty severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome put me out of commission for three or four months. Around mid-2005 my girlfriend took a part-time course in maya and so we ended up buying a PC and a copy of 6.5. After watching her work with the program I realised that maya was the way forward and the rest is history...