Livermead Hill Ghost, away!
May 1st, 2024. It has been one heck of a day. One of those days, in fact, that makes you want to curl up in a little ball, soak yourself in whiskey and forget about it. Yeah, the pressure was […]
Read moreAuthor of Paranormology, Tedrick Gritswell, Adaptation, Atlas Broken, The Bullet and Iris of the Shadows
May 1st, 2024. It has been one heck of a day. One of those days, in fact, that makes you want to curl up in a little ball, soak yourself in whiskey and forget about it. Yeah, the pressure was […]
Read moreIn previous posts, I was banging on about how the audience can give feedback to the artist. In short, it’s a personal reflection from the reviewer and says more about their tastes and attitudes than the work itself. This is […]
Read moreIt must be great to be a chef, cooking up fresh ingredients, using all the skill and knowledge garnered over the years to produce a plate that, after a few minutes, is devoured by a hungry patron. What an amazing […]
Read moreIt is perfectly natural for a human to pre-judge a situation. Good intentions aside, we do, indeed, judge a book by its cover. We do read the blurb and think, “What? No earth-destroying ninja robots? No deal!” We look at […]
Read moreThe Grosvenor Lane Ghost animation is out, woot! That doesn’t mean that I’m done with yakking on about it. Music, you see, underpins an animation or video, it brings it all together and sets the mood and the tempo, the […]
Read moreWow! I’m bushed. I thoroughly gave a Synfig, Audacity, Anvil Studio, Gimp, Corel and good ol’ Microsoft Movie Maker a workout. I haven’t got a lot to say except that the promotional animation for Grosvenor Lane Ghost is now up […]
Read moreWith the backdrops pretty much ready to go, with the exception of the fireplace, which needs some serious shadows, I’ve been looking at the animation side of things. Nothing gets stuff done like getting stuff started, eh? Synfig Opening up […]
Read moreMaking scenes to represent the various parts of Grosvenor Lane Ghost proved harder than I expected. I had, in my mind, a grand set of a horse and carriage, of a row of dilapidated houses, of looking up to see […]
Read moreOne 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 […]
Read moreTo 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 […]
Read moreAs 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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