I was born in the City of Manila, Republic of the Philippine Islands. I came to the USA when I was 17. My mother knew I was am artist when I was 6 and hired a private art teacher to guide me until I was 8. I also began Judo when I was 6. I won several art contests & shows before I got out of High School and studied art & design at University. I bought a used computer that had Bryce2 installed and fumbled through the program rendering simple little scenes and building boolean models. one of my robot models caught the eye of Brycetech and she sent me a hardcopy of Bryce 4. In January of 2000, I won a Golden Torus Award & Best New Artist over at the Bryce Delphi Forum. I've done 3 covers for SciFi Weekly and I was the Project Director for 3DKidscape.com, an online art gallery for kids, that was featured on CNN in 2003.i