About me

My name is Chiel Pieters. I am 24 years old and live in the Netherlands.

Studies and Career

It all started in Zwolle at Deltion College graduating as Application Developer in 2019. Followed by graduating in 2023 at Saxion University of Applied Science in Creative Media & Gametechnologies.

In the 1st year I managed to receive my propaedeutic. In the 3rd year I did an VFX internship at Shosho in Amsterdam and graduated at The Virtual Dutch Men in Almelo.

Currently I work as a 3D Blender artist at ZoomWorks in Deventer. We focus mainly on 3D safety and instruction animations but we like to call it explanimation (explain animation).

Interests

Ofcourse I also have my hobbies and interests. My whole life I played soccer/football. Unfortunatelly I had to leave the 1st team of CCW '16 because of a knee injury. Quickly after, I joined the Scouting of Voorst. It's almost my 4th year already and I'm still having a lot of fun there. Every Friday evening we come together at the club and if needed I offer to help in the weekends. My sport interests in football switched to racing and Formula 1. I like to watch every qualifying and race if possible and love to sim race myself.

Back in 2012 I made my very first YouTube video. Untill 2015 it was just playing/trying around and learn how to make a HD gaming video. From 2015 to 2018 I had my first more serious YouTube channel (ZependeZ at the time). In this period I learned myself to edit videos in Sony Vegas and to create my own tumbnails in Photoshop. I managed to get my channel to around 800 subscribers.

In 2017 my interests went slowly from YouTube to music. I started creating my own music in FL Studio 12. Back then I joined with my YouTube channel Scalelab Network. Because of that I was able to upload my music to Spotify. I thought 'ZependeZ' wasn't a really good artist name so I took 'Renowned'.

January 2021 I started livestreaming games on Twitch. I worked a few days to make my channel ready to go live and I really enjoyed it. I used my Tiktok account to lure people towards my Twitch channel. I posted videos about the latest gaming news. Within 2 months I got my account to 3300 followers and a couple viral videos. I have about 900 followers who watch me failing in games, crash in F1 2021 and join the conversations with me. However, because of a full time job I am really actively streaming anymore. In the evenings I love to play online games with viewers I met during livestreaming and work on my personal 3D projects.