It’s you, isn’t it?
The short answer is, no. It’s not me. Not in the true sense. Though I can definitively say that the protagonist in ‘do while true’ comes about from a ‘there but for the grace of God, go I’ arrangement. That’s […]
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Live a Little before you Die a Little
Being 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 […]
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The Bullet Animation – Music Issues
Making 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. […]
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The Bullet Animation – Music
Having 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 […]
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The Bullet Animation – Sound
Up 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 […]
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The Bullet Animation – Paths, Text and Gradients
If 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 […]
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The Bullet Animation – Animating
The 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 […]
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The Bullet Animation – Synfig
In 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, […]
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The Bullet Animation – Vector Graphics
In 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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The Bullet Animation – Artwork
In 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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The Bullet Animation – Conception
I realized only a few months ago that, whether I like it or not, promotion is a part of being an independent author. Like the saying goes, if you don’t blow your own trumpet, no one else will do it […]
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