This is the visual effects artist from London who left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications and has gone on to become highly successful, working on the hit TV show Black Mirror and IMAX projects, as well as Dungeons and Dragons 2.

He is now also killing it on YouTube where he has started regularly sharing his latest dinosaur VFX creations, some of which have notched up millions of views.

Julian Johnson-Mortimer spoke to Real Press in an exclusive interview and said that it all started when he left school when he was just “15 with no qualifications”.

He said he was not able to find much work at first, and one day when he was bored, he started painting.

Julian said: “I started painting a watercolour painting. I found that I really enjoyed it and started painting pretty much all the time, and after a few years I was able to make a living as a watercolour artist.”

He transitioned into working on special effects using computers in 2001, saying: “I first became interested in doing computer art in 2001, when I discovered a 3D animation program called Maya. I found it very interesting as it was used to create the effects on many feature films. I tried a 30-day demo of the program and was hooked.”

The computer program Maya has been used to create films including Monsters Inc., Frozen, The Matrix, Avatar, Spider-Man, and numerous other blockbuster hits.

Julian said: “I spent the next 2 years teaching myself visual effects and my first real VFX job was in 2003 working as the creature designer and concept artist for the film Dungeons and Dragons 2.”

Now 46, he developed a keen interest in working on dinosaurs and other large creatures, saying: “I have since worked on many films and TV shows. I started working on my first dinosaur show in 2007, which was an IMAX project for National Geographic called Sea Monsters.

“I really enjoyed making the creatures and I have been mostly focused on dinosaur projects since then.”

In 2016, the expert VFX artist, who is from the town of Gravesend, which is on the Thames not far from London, worked on the visual effects for the Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire.

He has also worked on documentaries such as Mysteries of the Unseen World (2013) and Wildest Weather in the Solar System (2011).

His YouTube video Spinosaurus Swamp Things, which she uploaded just two months ago, has notched up 2.1 million views and he has over 66,000 subscribers.