Let me tell you a little about myself... I grew up in Vermont, where, cooped up during the long, cold, winters, I started drawing as a way to bring my comic book -fueled imagination to life. Later on, while I was supposed to be studying painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, I discovered computer graphics, and I've been enamored of CG ever since. After school, I headed West. In San Francisco I lucked into a job animating my childhood comic-book heroes: the X-Men. In the years since that first job, I've worked at several other companies and on many other games. After knocking around the west coast, I've finally settled in Portland, Oregon. The Pacific Northwest's green hills remind me of Vermont, and its lousy weather makes it the perfect place to let one's imagination unfurl. There's a strange lack of game companies in Portland, but that's fine now that I'm doing off-site freelancing. I love freelancing! It's difficult, but it suits me. I especially like the opportunity it affords me to work with a variety of indie game developers - people just as stubbornly independent as myself. -Spencer Boomhower 1/19/07