Author of Paranormology, Tedrick Gritswell, Adaptation, Atlas Broken, The Bullet and Iris of the Shadows
The day has finally arrived! Being the tenth day of the tenth month, the tenth in the Paranormology series, Somerset Gardens Ghost, has been released to into world. If you like your books in ebook format, or audiobooks, or paperback, […]
Read moreI got to the end of my first draft of Hampton Court Ghost. I smiled, patted myself on the back, content that the hard part was over. I had started with a premise, refined it and wrote it down, got […]
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 […]
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