Author of Paranormology, Tedrick Gritswell, Adaptation, Atlas Broken, The Bullet and Iris of the Shadows
The title kind of says it all, but you’re probably after details. Alrighty, then: All of my audiobooks, through the various distributors like Google, Apple, Barnes and Noble and Chirp have been heavily reduced in price. For how long? Ostensibly […]
Read moreLet me go back to where these updated began: As an independent author, it is up to me to organise any form of marketing or promoting of my books. To this end, I embarked on an adventure – Yes, I’ll […]
Read moreBeing an independent author is a tough gig. You’re looking at months, years even, of scratching out enough time from your hectic life to whip words into line just to adequately convey a story to someone you’ll never meet. It’s […]
Read moreMaking the music for the The Bullet Animation was definitely one of the more fun aspects. I had a general tune going, I’d made a rhythm track and mucked about with the instruments. Playing it back, it didn’t sound right. […]
Read moreHaving moving images and sound effects for the animation wasn’t enough. After toying with layering sounds upon sounds to build to a crescendo, I figured out that what was needed was not more crappy sounds, but music. Actual music. It […]
Read moreUp to this point I had been toying with graphics and animating things and sketches and learning about vector graphics – and I’d completely neglected the audio! Well, not completely. Mostly. The issue, as I saw it, is that I […]
Read moreIf you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I started off this whole animation project with defining a bunch of scenes I wanted to render, converted some sketches into vectors and I figured out how to make stuff move. By […]
Read moreThe last post yammered on about how cool Synfig is. For a dude like me who hasn’t the training, the cash or the patience for the professional stuff, it does the job admirably and there’s a whack of stuff in […]
Read moreIn my previous post, I showed you how I turned my sketches into vector graphics, ripe for insertion into Synfig. When I first opened Synfig Studio, I didn’t know where to start. There were panels and boxes and buttons and, […]
Read moreIn my previous post, I showed you how I sketched up my characters to bring them into a digital format. The problem is that they were still unsuited for animation in Synfig. I had to convert them from raster images […]
Read moreIn my previous post I spoke about how I was making an animation as a promotional video for The Bullet and I got as far as laying out the scenes and getting the timing right. For each scene I needed […]
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