I first got into animation while watching the jungle book at age 5. I love it and still watch it today as a fully grown child. I still have the original VHS! I was a big fan of Chuck Jones; Road runner. Beep beep!!. And Tom and Jerry was regular on the tally at home and the Vhs was playing a few of their classic episodes from time to time. I love it when Tom is an Indianan
I could write about millions of games that I’ve played but I won’t. This will be a rough guide to my game history. The love for games started with the mighty Atari and pacman. I swear there’s no end to that game. I played it hard core on my black and white telly in the eighties. I soon step up a few gears to the Commodore 64 to double dragon on my tape deck. Which I thought was a bit special you could buy games for £3.50. Amassing!! Then Mega drive was soon under the Christmas tree.
Desert Strike and Ghouls and Ghosts were my poison. I loved desert strike, It felt like you where playing a 3d game, when panic station hit and that annoying beeping sound started coming from your apache to indicate your low fuel levels, You’d hit the start button and get the map up and ask where the fork is that fuel drum I flew over.
The ps1 hit the shelves and Santa disguised as Mr. Fagan dueling delivered with Ps1 with Die Hard which in my opinion was a major break throw. 3 Different games genres on the one game. 3 DIFERENT GAMES!! 3D Platform, Shootem up and a bit of road rage to get the juice’s flowing. I also got toy story as stocking filler. I thought to myself I like this 3d stuff. I was always pretty Sharpe in the art class. But how the hell was I living in Belfast going to get into this modern new art form.
Once I got into ECA with a sketch book under one arm and a ps2 under the other and a copy of Call of duty in my mouth. I was a man on a mission. I wanted to be a 3d animator.
