My sincerest thanks to everyone out there who hit up Amazon and made a play to make Grosvenor Lane Ghost Free for Kindle because – drumroll (as if the title of this post wasn’t a give away) – continue the […]
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Add that salt
In previous posts, I was banging on about how the audience can give feedback to the artist. In short, it’s a personal reflection from the reviewer and says more about their tastes and attitudes than the work itself. This is […]
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It must be great to be a chef, cooking up fresh ingredients, using all the skill and knowledge garnered over the years to produce a plate that, after a few minutes, is devoured by a hungry patron. What an amazing […]
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The Struggle of the Artist – Perception
It is perfectly natural for a human to pre-judge a situation. Good intentions aside, we do, indeed, judge a book by its cover. We do read the blurb and think, “What? No earth-destroying ninja robots? No deal!” We look at […]
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Back to the Music
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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The Front Porch at Grosvenor Lane
With the backdrops pretty much ready to go, with the exception of the fireplace, which needs some serious shadows, I’ve been looking at the animation side of things. Nothing gets stuff done like getting stuff started, eh? Synfig Opening up […]
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Grosvenor Lane Graphics
Making scenes to represent the various parts of Grosvenor Lane Ghost proved harder than I expected. I had, in my mind, a grand set of a horse and carriage, of a row of dilapidated houses, of looking up to see […]
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Thank you… You’re Wacom.
One of my biggest bugbears when it comes to digitizing pencil scratchings is that I have to do my sketching on paper, get my phone out, take a photo – with a black piece of paper underneath to hide the […]
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