Now, you were in the military. Did you come directly from the military to here?
TL;DRElijah McNeil did not come straight from the military; he left the Navy several years earlier, where he was a welder and structural engineer, then studied 3D animation and modeling.
No, I've been out of the military for several years. After I got out of the military, I went to school to learn 3D animation and modeling, but I wanted to be a concept artist, so I would just work on my stuff in off hours outside of school, and eventually I got to a point where they started allowing me to do it as my homework for other classes instead.
What branch of the military were you in?
Navy.
And what did you do for them?
I was a welder, a structural engineer, so I spent most of my time plotting and planning, welding, pipe fitting. I was also on boarding party. I was on the fire party because when you're an HT, which is my rating, you're part of repair division. So repair division has to be the flying squad. So we're responsible for riot control, hazmat response, flooding and fire response, situations like that.