You like audiobooks, I know you do. But not just any audiobooks. Victorian ghost-hunting? You got it. Octopus detective? You got it. Rogue orphans on an epic adventure? You know you’ve got it. Existential explorations involving a lump of lead? […]
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The Bullet Audiobook
I started the audiobooks off with The Bullet. Why? It’s short. It’s slow. It’s silent. Short I needed, more than anything else, to launch an audiobook off the ground and see how it flies. Unfortunately for The Bullet, it’s my […]
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Findaway Voices Audiobooks
The time came to just get the rotten thing up, up onto the grand international platform of electrons called the ‘internet’. I had tried ACX, but that was ruled out by geography. I mean, in this age of inter-everything, I […]
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Smoking Bullets
Ha, now there’s a vision. Once I’d finished with the front cover of Adaptation, I had a look at some of my other titles. Yep, you guessed it, I wasn’t happy with them. I mean, the Paranormology series ain’t so […]
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Four (and a half) Little Words
In year nine I wrote a poem. It was chock full of symbolism and meaning. I thought it was pretty straight-forward, the rest of the class, teacher included, stood dumbfounded. “What was that about? Was that a collection of random […]
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The Bullet Animation – All Together Now
Let 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 […]
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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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