Ciro Cardoso is a self-taught 3D artist and training author specialized in architectural visualization. He started off painting and drawing traditionally and then got into 3D graphics in 2000. In 2005, he was running his own small multimedia business working on projects as diverse as graphic designing, CAD services, and architectural visualization projects. More recently, he started using Lumion and game engines for multimillion dollar projects in the United Kingdom, Portugal, the Netherlands, Angola, and Cape Verde. He is quite conversant with software in general, with extensive expertise in Maya, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, SketchUp, V-Ray, Corona, Photoshop, Lumion, Unreal 4, and Bentley MicroStation. He is also the author of Getting Started with Lumion and Lumion 3D Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing. He now lives in London, working as an architectural visualizer, and does voluntary work teaching 3D. He can be reached through his website, http://www.cirocardoso.net.