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SMART A RT DANIEL ABRAMOVICI'S ECLECTIC CAREER PAIRS HIS LOVES OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. this page: Abramovici derives inspiration from studying skulls. opposite page: (from top) Abramovici̕s love of drawing is ongoing; With his painting "Elequid;" Projection mapping his art at Orlando̕s interactive arts event IMMERSE; Exhibiting his paintings at Blue Sky Studio. When Daniel Abramovici moved from New York to Los Angeles with his family in 2020, he intended to start a projection mapping business. He'd discovered projection mapping a few years earlier with a friend, exploring it for fun using his personal artwork as a base. But the pandemic brought that plan to a halt. With everything shut down, he took up surfing, and these days he's back on land as the CG Supervisor and Co-Showrunner of a to-be-announced Nickelodeon series. Abramovici's journey to this role has been a natural, if not eclectic, progression. For most kids, Saturday mornings mean activities like dance classes, piano lessons, or soccer practice. For Abramovici, who was raised in Toronto, Saturdays were for going to his neighbor's house. That's where Mrs. Elliot—he never knew her first name— would instruct Abramovici and five or six other kids from the neighborhood on the fundamentals of art. "I remember one of my first classes with her, she was like, 'Here's an apple. Draw it,'" Abramovici says. "I thought to myself, 'This is so simple.' So, I drew a picture of an apple, and she quickly corrected me and showed me how complicated it was to actually draw an apple in real life: all the nuances and shadow and light and sculpting it with just a pencil." It was his first awakening to the realization that "art is really involved," he says. Abramovici's musician father and interior designer/florist mother signed him up for Mrs. Elliot's classes because they recognized early on that he had a passion. Abramovici family lore, he says, is that "as soon as they put a pencil in my hand, I was always drawing." His mother would also routinely take him to museums. He calls himself a very "spongy kid," and he fell in love with Impressionism and German Expressionism. "I just liked the dark palettes and the really heavy strokes," he says of the latter. As a teenager, he went through T H E C L I M B 12 KEYFRAME