One of my biggest bugbears when it comes to digitizing pencil scratchings is that I have to do my sketching on paper, get my phone out, take a photo – with a black piece of paper underneath to hide the […]
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Spirit of Inspiration
To make ghosts dance, one needs music. Not only will it set the mood of the animation, if I do it right it will tie into the various scenes. The first question I asked was “what’s the mood?” Well, this […]
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Making Ghosts
As previously stated, I’m going to be giving love to Grosvenor Lane Ghost in the form of an animation. I’ve learnt a lot from the Bullet, and from Adaptation, about the sound, about the music, about vectors and rasters and […]
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Ghosts Deserve Love, Too
The whiteboard got a thorough workout. Having suffered an attack of ‘Oh, crap, I need to get EVERYTHING done‘, I cooled my jets and took some of my own advice. I laid out everything that I wanted to get done, […]
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We want you to make it free
You there! Did you know that you already own several of my books? Open up your favourite e-reader or e-book application and go right ahead. Put in Jeremy Tyrrell into the search bar and go for it. Download and share […]
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The Road to Hell
I was sick yesterday. I’m still sick today, but yesterday, man. Fever, nausea, headaches, chills, aches, the works. It was the worst. World ending, full-blown Man-flu. Took some psuedoeffingwhatsit to help with the nose and passed out on the couch […]
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When Too Much is Too Much
Ooh. Oh, man! You’ve copped a whopper of an urge to write. Your Muse has gotten stuck into the coffee and now there’s no shutting up. Ideas are flowing out of your head like water from a hydrant – unrestrained, […]
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The Struggle of the Artist – Who cares?
It’s easy being an independent author. You get to write what you want to write. The subject matter is up to you. You don’t have a big bad corporation leaning over your shoulder, shaking its head saying, “No, no, no. […]
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Of Crickets and Ants
In Atlas, Broken, Henry comes across a cricket in his backyard, chirruping merrily at the moon. The next day, he finds it savagely gutted by ants. I’m not an expert when it comes to the life-cycle of crickets. Where I […]
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Easter Eggs -Triumphs and Failures
Running with the purple and gold theme, I made up a few more eggs and painted them blue, graduating to white at the bottom. Then came the white vine squiggles, with round balls on the ends of white flicks. Finally, […]
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