If it’s not prying too much what made you go from working in the gaming industry to wanting to go into anatomy/dissection/vulture culture (I hope I’m using the right terms if not please forgive me!)

1. Have long held childhood interest in animals. Use drawing as coping mechanism for problems at home.  2. Work in the game industry, specialize in creature design. 

3. Start wanting to learn more about animal anatomy so you can design better creatures. 

4. Draw live animals.

4. Draw dead animals so you can examine them more. 

5. Start dissecting dead animals to better understand them

get evicted for dissecting animals at home

6. Seeing the bones will allow me to better understand where muscles attach.  Get good at cleaning bones. 

7. Use dissected animals for reference while designing creatures.  They smell bad. Get good at preserving them.

8. Develop specimen hoarding problem. Start selling boxes of random specimens found around apartment. 

9. Realize that the injuries and marks on the bodies of the animals mean something.

10. Recognize the resilience, courage of the experiences that marked their bodies.

and identify with never having had a voice to speak of what they endured

11. “Someone should know what happened to you.... even if it’s too late, even if it changes nothing, what happened was to you was real.”

12. No one is interested in their stories because the photos are too graphic. Get good at photoshop.

13. Discover that presentation really matters. People are more interested in these stories if they are presented better. Applies this idea to specimens. 

14. Not that interested in creature design for games anymore. Wanders off because other work feels more  meaningful.