The 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 […]
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Presenting – Grosvenor Lane Ghost
Wow! 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 […]
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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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Export, Upload and Done
The Adaptation – Part 1 animation is now up on YouTube! A few of the posts regarding the scenes and whatnot didn’t make it, pardon my user error. They’re there, they just haven’t been ‘published’, most notably the ‘thermal’ imagery […]
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Special Guest: CRX
Being an indie doesn’t mean doing everything yourself. Sure, it feels like it, and, in many cases, everything that ‘happens’ is a direct result of you, but there are times when you need to ask for help and, importantly, accept […]
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First the Powder, then the Shot
Frustration. That was the key experience to take away from that exercise. Oh, I think I got there in the end, but, clearly, making up tunes is not my strong point. I think the problem lies in that for every […]
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What’s the Score?
One needs to eat the meal before one tastes the dessert. Yeah, but it’s kind of tantalising, isn’t it? That’s kind of how I’m feeling when it comes to the music. Besides, I justify, I’m going to need to do […]
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Animation for Adaptation
November? Is it really November? Yes, it is. That means it’s almost Christmas, and that means that the Software Development Cycle is preparing for end of year, and THAT means a bit of a scramble to get the bleeders tied […]
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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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