Recruitment of Jakob Rune Nielsen as a modeller - December 2011
Jacob R. Nielsen starts as a modeller in our prototype and model department in Billund. Jacob is MSc. mag. in History of Art and Multimedia at Aarhus University. Jacob comes from a position as teacher at the school. Alongside his work as a teacher, Jakob run his own company with the production of models including fairytale characters and painting models for collectors. Before that Jakob worked as a figure painter at Games Workshop in Nottingham.
Jacob is absolutely fantastic for modeling and painting figures, and before he started at DaVinci, he worked exclusively analog, ie. manually with 2-component modeling clay and a few hand tools. At DaVinci's Jacob started with digital tools, and it looks very promising. More news regarding. These new initiatives follow later ...
The news was written on 12 December 2011

