[Cyberfish_Fred]

aver(age) so far 34 and 3 months !!!

[sandykoufax]

hahaha, I'm below of aver(age).

[GM5]

Great thread! I'll see if I can bump up the age average a bit

Name: Greg
Age: 51
From: Randolph, MA
Family: Married and have 2 golden retrievers
Worked with 3D: for fun using TrueSpace and Lightwave on the Commodore Amiga, commercially with Kinetix 3D Studio Max 1.0
Worked with Photorealism: hmmm... more like worked at photorealism
Why: It's fun when I'm not stressed out from deadlines and it helps pay the bills...

[arch4d]

Name: Ingo
Age: 29
From: born in Wolfsburg, Germany,
studied in Braunschweig,
founded arch4d in Berlin,
actually employed in an arch design office...
Family: just asked my girlfriend to marry me a few days ago
Worked with 3D: since the early days of my architecture studies, must have been cinema 4d 6.0...
Worked with Photorealism: always tried, never achieved, but maxwell helps a lot
Why: well, here it is not easy getting a job in a design office, but i got some offers due to my 3d skills. so this is what i do and what i really love to do. but i´d rather have my own office again, or would be glad working a cool 3d viz office.
so, if there is some freak like me out there in hamburg, PM !!!

[glypticmax]

aver(age) so far 34 and 3 months !!!

Wow! I'm above average at something on this forum!

[-Adrian]

Name: Adrian Rössler
Age: 21
From: A small town in Germany
Family: Live with mother, have a sister, am single
Worked with 3d: Messing around since a few years, more productively since maybe a year.
Worked with Photorealism: Difficult to answer, i think i always attempted it but i first started to get an idea of how to achieve it when i bought Maxwell and started browsing this forum.
Why: I just love looking at 3D imagery and the possibilities that come with creating it, it's a hobby.

[Tora_2097]

Worked with Photorealism: about 1 yesrs ago when I saw Tora_2097's kitchen images rendered maxwell, I fell in love with maxwell. Thanks Benjamin:wink

Hey, thats very cool and nice to hear. Thank you very much for the nice compliment. Its a very good thing to know that my works may have inspired a few of you.

Keep on rendering,

Benjamin aka Tora_2097

[Airwaveflyer]

Name: Johan Folkesson
Age: 40
From: Malmoe, Sweden
Family: Wife, daughter age 9 and twin boys age 3.
Worked with 3d: Been using it as a complement to my primary profession which is photo-retoucher since Alias Power Animator 8.5
Worked with Photorealism: "Always"... first with airbrush on paper, then on film as a traditional retoucher then with various software up til currently Photoshop. In 3D: bits and pieces for 5 years. Full images...I will present the first ones this coming monday for a *BIG* company, wish me luck
Why:Because its what I'm relatively good at as an artist .I have been a successful retoucher for 16+ years which has resulted in a company that today employs 10 people . Photorealistic 3D has been my passion since my first visit to the 3D-festival exibition in Malmoe, were people from Digitial Domain, ILM and others totally blew me away... Finally I must say that I'm totally thrilled about Maxwell since it enables me to use my photographic know-how in an imaging-workflow that has the potential to be the biggest thing in my business since Photoshop .

And the fact that I just stumbled over it in the industrynews-section of 3D-world magazine..

[Maximus3D]

Good to see another fellow Swede here ..nice meeting you Johan. It's gonna be interesting to see your renderings with Maxwell now soon.

/ Max

[Onslaught]

Name: Ronald Devesa
Age: 37
From: Sonoma, California
Family: Wife & Son
Worked with 3d: Since AutoCAD rel. 8
Worked with Photorealism: Don't know, I think it was in 1995 (nor sure).
Why: 'coz it's fun to do.

[adamwade]

Name: Adam Wade
Age: 37
From: Orange County, California
Family: Wife Yukiko and one son Noah 2.5yrs
Worked with 3d: since 1990 at Art Center with Alias and Presenter Pro 3D on Mac
Worked with Photorealism: I thought always until I saw Maxwell and started with beta
Why: everyone at the design office says it makes my bad designs look great ! Besides it's a nice break and change of thinking during the creative process.[/b]

[Jeff Tamagini]

hey we are sticky now, haha, this thread really is great too see where everyone is in the world

[SunlightRocker]

Yay, My first sticky topic. Probably the last one to. Great to see so many people post here. Thanks.

[daros]

Name: David Rossmann
Age: 34
From: Munich
Family: Girlfriend.
Worked with 3d: About 12 years
Worked with Photorealism: About 10 years.
Why: trying to simulate Lighting projects.
Live in Italy since '73.
isola d'elba, urbino, siena,
'91 Venice, architecture university. Met a nice colombian Girl.
'93 in Bogota Colombia with my girlfrend.
learning 3D...
'95 founded Moonlightcomputergraphics.
'96 founded Vortex Digital with my friend Carols Buitrago.
'99 back to italy and founded Stack! Studios with my friend Massimo Ciani.
Software development since 2000 and for me the first creative thing i did with a computer.

[jdp]

'91 Venice, architecture university.

I always wondered about your background, but I wouldn't ever imagined you did wet your soul in venice as I did... cool!