It continued throughout my Army service and both my Iraq deployments. After that I played here and there, and really enjoyed it in high school. It’s funny, because this was back in the ’80s at the height of the D&D scare, so she was clearly a brave kid. It started back when I went to Sunday school and the teenager who was bored watching over all these little kids in church decided to run a kid friendly D&D game. Zavala: I’ve played D&D since I was 6 years old. I repeated this process a few times a week, and it eventually got to what we see today. After the model is done, I’d send it to the printer, and walk away to go to something else. I’d come home, work out, play a video game, then I’d say, “Hey, I should model something.” I’d then crack open some wine, get the jazz playing, and model something for an hour or two. It was a slow process, mostly because it was a simple hobby I did after work. Zavala: It took about a year-and-a-half to complete. Things started rather clumsily, as you can see with my goblin mini. I looked at images online and the Monster Manual itself and just modeled the miniatures from scratch. GamesBeat: How did you translate the Monster Manual drawings into 3D figures? In the end, it was just a nice hobby for me, but it was really satisfying knowing I was helping the gaming community, and making D&D more popular, too. People were asking for files, and I was getting a lot of praise and I thought, “Well, why not make the whole Monster Manual for everyone?” One year-and-a-half later, I made almost all the monsters and shared it with the gaming community. Then things really started to blow up from there. It became very popular, so I went ahead and made a Blue Dragon. After printing a small Black Dragon, I went ahead and posted it on Reddit.

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