Primarily, I use LightWave 3D. I stay current because the boxes and manuals are like trophies on my shelves. Right now, my focus is video games.BIOWhen I was little (5 or 6), I would get all caught up in a television show and then in the last 5 minutes most of them ended in the worst possible ways I could immagine. I would get up all angry, swearing that I could have done better. I felt jipped. It was like they stole an hour of my life and the payoff was a chain of events that only served to leave us all back where we started so that we could watch the series in syndication (out of sequence) and not be disoriented.So I started to write stories that ended the ways I would have ended them. But I realized that, even then, if I wanted to see stuff like I would want them to make, I would have to make it myself.So when I was maybe 14, I think, I got a video camera and a few super8 film cameras. I started reading all the video geek magazines and heard about NewTek's Video Toaster. I started learning on AMIGAs and took video classes at school. I started by building a poor-man's Video Toaster out of a Videonics MX-1 Digital Video Mixer, a video capture card, and a few more cameras. I built cardboard sets and keyed over bluescreens. It was great fun. Recently I got a prosumer digital video camera (like they use on ESPN, the Travel Channel, and even a few movies) so the signal quality of my video has improved at least. But it turns out that what I really wanted was LightWave 3D. They were bundled together, LightWave and the Toaster, but by the time I could buy it, LightWave was a stand-alone program. So I got it and a PC. I started making simple animations and flying company logos for anyone I could find. I had been studying the way video games were made since my days with the AMIGA, so I started tinkering seriously with game engines. Eventually I got picked up by a software company and I do corporate promotional interactive CD-ROMS, software distribution and video for them and just about everyone they get involved with. I am invloved in about 4 different video game projects at the moment. My programming, modeling and animation skills are improving all the time. In fact they have recently taken a few leaps in the right direction. So there you have it. Thanks for reading. Hope you liked it!