Mat Voyce

Luckily, I did get outside a lot as well, but I spent a lot of time watching films and playing games

games like the n64 the snares the playstation and i played like playstation 1 2 3 4 and i still do now when i have time so like those i was really exposed to those early 90s films like from quite a young age like i used to watch things that were definitely above my age group when i was younger

And that's definitely had an impact because I still have really vivid memories of watching some of these shows.

And I got into things like Futurama at quite a young age.

And I would sketch these characters down.

And I had a routine of watching The Simpsons every night when it was on 6 on Channel 4, I think it was, back in the day.

And maybe it was BBC, it might have been BBC 2.

It was a very long time ago now.

I was always into cartoons and motion and animation and motion pictures.

So I always liked to draw them at the same time and get quite hands-on.

But I think having that kind of around me and focusing on the cartoony stuff and the animations and things, so that when I went into education, my way of learning, it was always very visual-based.

If I tried to revise for something...

And I just tried to write down notes and rewrite stuff.

It just didn't work for me.

Whereas if I had visual depictions of things like pictures or diagrams, for example, that would really help me then learn and pick things up quicker.

So it was just that way of learning then helped me

steer into the creative industries because when I did eventually get into GCSEs, my two top subjects out of my 11 subjects were graphic design and product design.

They were my only two A star or A subjects.

Everything else was flat Cs and the odd Ds.

So it was clear like that was the area for me.