Who Am I?

One of the first things worth noting about me before reading on on this page is that I type a lot. If I had a word limit, I probably could have shortened the following texts into two or three paragraphs total, but as this is my site, I feel it’s better to just let my mind leak out onto the page. If you want to reach me you can e-mail me at hansemil96@gmail.com.

Without further ado, here’s me.

Hans

Background

My name is Hans Emil Beritsveen Eid. Hans or Hans Emil is fine. I was born on the 30th of May, 1996, and grew up in a small town about an hour and half out from Oslo.

I was never really able to nail down exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. At first, I wanted to be a chef. Then I wanted to be a pastry chef. Then I majored in media and communication after realizing that working in a kitchen wasn’t for me. After that, I studied game programming in university for three years, leaving NTNU in 2018 with a finished bachelor thesis and two unfinished courses. Then I worked three years at a job I didn’t enjoy, before reaching a breaking point, and leaving that job without any plans.

I started working on my art. I’d always enjoyed drawing, during university I liked making the various assets we needed, during my media and communication major I chose to do an animation project, but I’d never really accepted that it was something I could actually do as a job until then. I started taking my art journey more seriously, and with my new ADHD medication in hand, I went through courses in digital drawing and painting, in 3D modelling, in design, I started actually enjoying the feeling of improving and learning new things because it was something I frankly should have been doing from the start.

For the past few years now I’ve been refining my skills within game development, 3D modelling and 2D artworks, I’ve worked with technologies like VR, AR, browser-based 3D, and myriad others.

Inspiration and influence

Two themes keep showing up for me, and influence a lot of my thoughts and works. They’re themes that I definitely grew up with an interest in as well, so it’s only natural that they’ve engrained themselves in the roots of my mind. Nature, and the weird.

Where I grew up, I had forests practically on all sides of me. Anywhere that wasn’t a golden barley or wheat field, or the nearby fjord, was forest. Birch forests and pine forests both. During primary school we’d often go out into the forest as a day trip, making a bonfire if it was within the correct seasons, exploring the areas around and playing there for hours. We’d go to the small ponds and check out the bird boxes hanging on the trees to see if there were any eggs, or look for tadpoles in the water. Pinecones underfoot, the fresh air, the sticky sap that I’d always get on my clothes and hands after leaning on trees, or even just climbing the trees at the playground during recess. Nature, especially forests, have a very dear place in my heart.

While nature to me very much means ‘home’ and ‘familiar’, my interest in weird things is a contrast to that familiarity. It’s the ‘what ifs’. It’s a broad category, but it’s the things that aren’t, for lack of a better term. Mythological creatures, supernatural phenomenon, eldritch horrors, magic spells, anything that I don’t believe exists, generally speaking. I’ve always loved seeing different depictions of these things in fiction, I feel that it says a lot about a person how they interpret these concepts, how they choose to incorporate it into stories. I especially love marrying these two themes, nature and the weird, the real and the unreal.