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early 1980s to Scott Adams Inc. The division was bought by Commodore, Inc., and somehow his game was lost in the shuffle and never published.

He had his first magazine article published in the late 80s, started an eponymous graphics-oriented computer software company around the same time, writing a few hundred thousand lines of assembly code to do everything from text processing to graphic compression and sprite animation. He spent his college career holding two jobs - one as a graphic designer and a second developing database software. A couple decades later, then, it's no big surprise where he ended up. He spent the next several years doing technical illustration and artistic concept design in the defense/aerospace and commercial sectors. After several years of making things blow up in corporate videos using early experimental tools like POV-RAY, and a decade of video and animation projects, interactive CDs and DVDs, HD presentations for conferences and trade shows, motion graphics, and other CG, Eddie Offermann eventually found himself teaching visual effects techniques to college students in Orlando, Florida.

After four years of that, it was time to move on again, seeking work in the visual effects industry in 2006.

As of late 2007, Eddie lives in West Hollywood and divides his time between eating too much garlic, spending too much time on his feet on set, too much time in Maya, Houdini, SynthEyes, ImageModeler or what-have-you, and too little time staring at the ocean or across the desert. But he's working on it.