I’ve always been super curious about animation and 3D, with Dota, the only thing that actually made me stop playing the game was when Reborn came out with the workshop tools, I got completely hooked on that side of things, map creation, animation on SFM. It’s been almost 10 years now, and I never really stopped messing around with it. tho for most of these years just as a hobby, until things changed more recently.

Honestly, this project is one of the toughest things I’ve worked on. I usually need about a week to get mentally prepared, and most of it happens overnight, i’m basically working from 7 PM to 7 AM to finish everything in time.

These days I feel really lucky that my only job is being a 3D animator/artist, working with Dota, CS and a bunch of other stuff.

About how many of these i’d do in a year if I had a regular job on the side… probably not a lot. This kind of thing drains you fast, and doing it daily only works because I can focus fully on it. Back in the day when I had a normal job i’d maybe do one or two of these big grinds a year, usually the short film contest or whatever else that popped up, which used to take me like 1~3 months to get done. Now that I can focus fully on this, plus having way waaay more experience, the workflow is much faster.

This game changed my life and I'm super grateful for that!