David Soto has been assembling and painting miniatures since the late 1980s, when his first Dungeons & Dragons set sparked a lifelong obsession with the hobby. A U.S. Army veteran with a fine arts background and a degree in graphic design, David serves as the lead miniature painter and 3D sculptor behind Dark Forge Miniatures and Sotoverse Forgeworks, where classic craftsmanship meets modern production. By day, he works as an AI specialist in multimodal systems, training the models behind cutting-edge image and video generation — expertise he channels directly into his digital sculpting and design pipeline. Between graduate school, a full workbench, and family life, David knows firsthand what it means to fit the hobby into a busy world. That's exactly why he built the Sotoverse: to make miniature painting and tabletop crafting accessible to everyone, whether you're picking up a brush for the first time or chasing your next masterpiece. Nearly four decades in, he still leads the same way he always has — by example, one model at a time.
Explore the full Sotoverse at Sotoverse.com — the official webstore and home base for all of David's brands, channels, and socials, with a growing community hub and Discord on the way.