Tell us a little bit about yourself?

My name is Kouji Tajima, 20 years old and I'm living in Japan. I really like drawing since I was a kid. I'm available for freelance 3D Modeler/Texture Artist since this year.

What inspired you to study Computer Graphics?

I was looking for 2D art school when I was 3rd grade in high school. But I was vaguely aware that I can not be a great artist with 2D art, because my brother works as a graphic designer and his arts are really great. So,I thought I can not be a better than him. One　day,I hear about 3DCG from my high school teacher. at that time I was firmly believed "I can be the top of the world! " but now thinking about then, I was a bit foolish.

What made you choose the school/training facility that you did?

Because many graduates are active in many country such as hollywood movie industry. And the school and course that I graduated is also famous in Japan.

Where do you want to end up in the industry? Is there a particular company you'd like to work for?

I would like to be a great creature modeler like artist works at ILM,Weta,Blizzard, and so on. And I would like to have a workshops and also would like to help young artist to improve their skills.

Can you explain more about your major student project? What your workflow was? Where the idea came from?

We mainly learned basic skills of Maya, such as polygon modeling,animation. and then I liked to learn modeling,so I was doing almost about modeling. When I making a work that going to finish until just a image not for animation,I'm using Zbrush for model to finish after that import to maya and rendering with mentalray with maya. If it will using for animation, after finish of modeling with zbrush, I will using topogun to retopo. I guess,the ideas of my works come from some movies and the works of artist that I respecting.

What were the biggest hurdles you faced with your student major project? Would you do anything different next time?

I think keep making better thing than previous work is most hard thing for me. but I also think keep making is the best way to keep making better thing. so, I'll keep making.