Glen Southern

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I currently run SouthernGFX from a studio in the heart of Cheshire. I have a small team of five people with skills ranging from 3D modelling to editing. I’ve had this particular studio and setup for over ten years now and I absolutely love living and working away from the hustle and bustle of a city. The clients are the same and I do visit London every month, but I love coming home. I’ve been an artist all my life and I don’t like to be pigeonholed into any one medium, so I don’t always describe myself as a 3D artist, even though 90 per cent of our work is exactly that. You can usually find some link to a creature or the sea in our work and we actively look for projects along those lines.

Do you have a background in 3D design or are you self taught?

I am completely self taught in 3D and to be honest these wasn’t really much formal training in 3D in the late 1980s. I left school at 15 and went onto a stop motion course with no qualification at the end. That rolled into my first job in a steelworks in the print department with a career path that would have seen me become a draughtsman. I picked up some