The task of singlehandedly taking these digital assets through the entire 3-D Pipeline seemed impossible to a novice, only familiar with traditional media. Now, however, the product stands not only as a testimony of my potential as an artist, but to my creative growth over the course of the last three years.

Although we were given random traits - both positive and negative - to construct our characters around as part of our assignment brief, Johann Hagen is anything but a haphazard creation. He is a carefully crafted combination of myself, my father and the parts of me I often wish I could get rid of. He is deeply emotive and artistic, studious, incredibly intelligent and brooding - but only when he is completely alone.