The document discusses the author's mantra of "Go Beyond" and their goal of pursuing a career in video game development as an environment artist. As a child, video games provided an escape from a difficult home life. Through self-study with programs like Maya and Photoshop, the author developed their 3D modeling skills over many years. They have since gained valuable work experience and life lessons from their job. The author is now enrolled in Full Sail University's game arts program to earn their bachelor's degree and fulfill their dream of creating game environments. They are confident in their skills and passionate to keep improving and exceeding their goals in their career.

1. Mantra: Go Beyond. Originally my mantra was “Rise, Meet your goals and go beyond” But I feel that
that mantra is a little to long and very descriptive.
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2. My goal is to fulfil my passion for video games, and to not just be a gamer, but to create games.
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3. I enjoy creating the world and all the props that make the world.
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4. I know that my journey to become an environment artist will be difficult.
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5. That’s me!
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6. Full Sail has made it possible for me to fulfill my dreams.
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7. The game arts program is what I’m enrolled in.
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8. To eventually get my bachelors degree.
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9. I started playing video games at young age. Way back in the NES days.
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10. Since then I have not let go
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11. Life got tough when I was in middle school and high school. We had no home. Staying in motels for
awhile.
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12. The only thing I had then was my video games. I would play Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Silent
Hill and many other games.
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13. Playing would take my mind away from our situation for a little while and gave me peace of mind.
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14. Life has not been easy for me, but at least I was able to get through it.
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15. I pushed myself to learn more about how I could get into game development and came across
Maya.
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16. I then learned how to use Maya. It took months and months to get use to it.
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17. Eventually, I was doing some simple modeling. That was a win for me.
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18. After High school I had plans to go to school, but, I was unable to since we were just getting out of
our bad situation and money was really tight.
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19. I ended up finding a job at a Printing Business.
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20. And learned some valuable life lessons and work habits.
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21. Prior to working here, I did not care if I showed up to work late. But soon learned how valuable you
become by being on time
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22. I consider myself a introvert, keeping to myself and rather work on my own. But, I learned to open
up and work as a team.
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23. I would soon learn about being responsible. Responsible for my work area, responsible for my
mistakes and actions.
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24. Also taking initiative of projects that no one would like to touch, because of the amount of time it
required and it’s complexity.
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25. I found that the following work ethics made work much easier to handle.
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26. I have work with many different programs through out the years but abandoned most of them
because I found them to be not worth working with. But, I stuck with what I found the easiest to
use.
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27. Maya the first program I learned. I found myself coming back to this program after trying out other
3d packages, such as Lightwave 3d.
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28. I first I thought that this program would not be something that I would need to learn. That was back
in Ver.3. Now, I know that this program is a valuable tool in the pipeline.
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29. Back in high school I started using photoshop 7, and I had an awesome time manipulating photos of
George W. Bush for some reason.
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30. I am confident in my skill as an environment artist that I guarantee it.
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31. I know that I will be a valuable asset to any company.
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32. And to any team I work with. So far I have not been a disappointment.
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33. I know as long as I continue to play video games, I will continue to push myself to move forward and
be even better.
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34. My passion is what motivates me.
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35. I know that I can go beyond the goals I set for myself. And keep on moving forward.
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