Back in 2004, after two years of doctoral studies in English Literature at the Jagiellonian University in Poland and one viewing of Pixar's Finding Nemo, Dadela decided to leave academia and pursue a career in 3D animation and visual effects. Dadela entered a one year intensive course at Vancouver Film School (2005–2006) and never looked back. In July 2011, Dadela spent six months in the Amsterdam area of the Netherlands, where she worked with Guerrilla Games, a division of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, as a Senior Character Artist, until the December of that same year.