I'm just a German hobby artist, hoping to be good enough someday to work on a professional level. :)BIOOne day I saw this computer magazine in a shop, and it was about computer graphics. It had a CD with some cheap freeware 3D software and some tutorials inside. Since I liked movies with cool special effects, I thought I could look into it. That's how it started.
The first program I worked with was called POV-Ray. A freeware 3D Renderer that worked with text based commands, rather than a graphical user interface. Luckily, the CD contained some graphical programs that could save in POV-Ray's file format, and so I made the famous "chrome sphere on checkerboard suface" picture every 3D Newby does. XD
Since then I worked a lot on my skills, and started using different software. While POV-Ray has a nice renderer, I never could get used to the fact that I had to program my scenes. I'm working now with 3D Studio.