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My name is Paul Greer, I work full time at BDH, making computer animation for the telly.
This is my main blog with news, work updates, new drawings, stories, comics, notebook pages, how tos, animations and link dumps. My more impulsive internet scrapbook is here.
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Let’s do 2017.
Be good. Be bad. Be kind. Be useful.
Don’t let the ****ers get you down.
Print Sale for December
I got a sale on for the early part of December.
All prints now £3.50 each, and if you order more than one in a single order the shipping for the rest is free!
Signed prints of locations from around the Bristol area.
Support my humble artistic endeavours whilst simultaneously acquiring top quality gifts for your loved ones.
“One Hour on the 11:30 from Bristol Temple Meads.”
Various horizon lines drawn from the window of the 11:30am to London Paddington, going through Bath Spa, Chippenham, Swindon, Didcot Parkway. September 2014.
“Not sure if you have tried drawing on a train, most people are too close for you to study without causing a uncomfortable situation and generally stuff is going passed so quickly outside you need a super fast photographic memory to get it in your brain before you can decide how to represent it on the page. So I decided to go for the horizon, because that goes pass slower and if you miss a bit it doesn’t look too weird if you just join on to the continuation.”.
Read more about the trip I took here.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
“Winter Saplings, Leigh Woods.”
Saplings drawn in notebook whilst walking through Leigh Woods, Bristol. Winter 2014.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
“Melrose Place, Clifton”
Looking out of the window in Clifton, Bristol. Summer 2014
Originally drawn as part of a daily drawing project, find out more here.
Black and White print on 160gsm uncoated paper. Taken from super high resolution scan. A4.
Countdown to Life wins the RTS
Top news for Team BDH! We have won the National RTS Award for Best Digital Effects for our work on Countdown To Life: The Extraordinary Making of You.
Congratulations everyone, a massive team effort on this one. Up against some pretty stiff competition as well.
The judges said:
“This was a stunning entry, with the success of the whole show entirely dependent on the skill of the Effects team. The textures and liquids they created were so realistic that the jury felt completely immersed, forgetting they weren’t watching a real embryo. An extraordinary piece of work.”
You can see the full list of winner here, and some examples of our work here.
Before last Tuesday’s news…
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 162-166
Yes, I’ve been pretty shaken up over the last week. Who hasn’t. The drawings here were all made before last Tuesday’s news.
This week I’ve been putting all my energy into redecorating our kitchen, so I haven’t managed drawing yet.
Hopefully soon though.
Be kind. Be useful.
Animated Journal: Clap Loop
Another Animated Journal loop from my Stories. That’s’s me on the audio again, this time called “Clap Loop”. It’s a documentation of my short trip to pick up the children from youth club.
“Countdown To Life” nominated for the Digital Effects RTS Award
Great news.
You can see the full list of nominees here.
Excellent work and congratulations to the rest of Team BDH. The final result was a perfect blend of many peoples work, modelling, rigging, sculpting, rendering, lighting and compositing with the BDH signature analogue elements.
Fingers crossed for the 28th.
(You know, it’s the one with all the babies.)
Animated Journal: Sad Clangers
Yes, I’ve been posting these small animated “Viney” loops on IG & SC Stories, but obviously they only play once there then they’re gone. Not substantial enough for YouTube or Vimeo so posting them on Instagram for evergreen seems to be the way.
Maybe once I’ve got a set I should put them into a full sequence similar to the first Animated Journal.
I’ll continue to blog them here as and when I update, in the meantime follow me on Snapchat or Instagram to get more instant updates.
New Front Page
I updated my front page with some GIFs, to jazz it up a bit, but also to simplify and to give people a better first impression of what I am about.
I’m a bit concerned the loading time might be affected by the heavy file size.
Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.
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