Hello Blogger! Allow me to introduce myself.

Hello!

Welcome to my page, This blog will mainly be focused on logging my progression with game development, 3D animation and producing a mini portfolio for any small games that I make just for fun and improving my skills with game development cycle such as coding, 3D modelling and character animation. Anyway that is the little information about the blog out of the way, Allow me to introduce myself and offer some background information on me!

About myself:

My name is Alex (obviously!) and I live in the city of Sheffield, United Kingdom. As of now for a living I work in a local super market as a kiosk operator and have been working there for a half a year. I recently graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a 2nd division Bachelor Science degree in Interactive Media with Animation. The course consisted of various modules that focused on different outlets of media such as 2D/3D Animation, Software Engineering, Game Development and Web Development. I had my 3 fun years of studies at the university but sadly it is now time for me to face the real world and attempt to achieve my goal in becoming an 3D animator or artist within the gaming industry.

As you probably gathered, I am an avid gamer. I've been playing video games pretty much since I was a toddler and I remember my first ever game that I played was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive (Or Genesis for the US folks). I remember being absolutely blown away that I could actually control a character on my television screen just simply by pressing buttons. I found this a lot more exciting then watching TV shows or films, From there on my interest with video games began to grew. Through out my childhood I had various consoles such as the mighty Sony PlayStation (20 years old today, Yikes!) Nintendo GameBoy, The original Xbox. Pretty much any console you could think of that came out in the 90's and 00's. I know some of you will be asking, "OK Alex, What is your all time favourite game?" Well to answer that it will be Metal Gear Solid (A Hideo Kojima Game) I won't waffle on why it is my all-time favourite game but to put it simply, The story writing is amazing, The soundtrack is very memorable and some of the gameplay elements in the game was just cutting edge such as controller port 2 trick.

Moving away from games, Do I actually like anything else besides video games? Well yes, I also love going the cinemas, travelling with Hannah (My girly!) Of course going to the pub with the lads and lastly, Ice Hockey is a sport that I absolutely love, Sheffield Steelers are my local supporting team of choice (Lets go Steelers) and Boston Bruins are my NHL team of choice.

The End... Or are we getting started?

I think I am about to run out of things to write about myself so I think I'll end my introducing post here. I'll be posting another entry within the next day or two when I have thought of a simple game idea that I can actually create.

I also have various social media/links so I'll share them out and feel free to like, follow. You know the good stuff!

You can find my twitter here (@AlexBell1991)
You can find my YouTube channel here

So I now that I have left those, I shall be ending my first ever entry. Would like to say thank you for taking the time to read and if there is any comments/feedback then by all means share them!

Hope you all have a great day people! :)

Alex