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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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Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 158-161

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158/365 Clifton Windows. Slightly inaccurate. 4 x 5 mins. V-ball Notebook: Myrtle

 

159/365 Ivy, tree and hedgerow. Evergreen Riding Centre. Tickenham. V-ball. 20 mins. Notebook: Myrtle.
160/365 Chimney Stacks, Clifton, Bristol, 20/09/16 V-ball, Notebook: Myrtle

 

161/365 Plants pots and ivy. V-ball Notebook:Myrtle

 

More immediate updates are available on Snapchat & Instagram.

Transitory Content Platforms for Animators.

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“No, Homer, very few cartoons go out live, it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrist.”

Further to my experimenting in Instagram Stories, I fired up the old Snapchat account and am now posting (?) there regularly.

I’m trying to keep the two streams populate with separate content, and indeed, it is already very clear the difference in form. Instagram video quality is higher, so animation (well, my kind of animation anyway) does break up so badly in the compression. Also Instagram doesn’t massively foreground when you have loaded something from the camera roll, any manipulated or animated video gets put in a frame in Snapchat.

Follow me on Snapchat and Instagram, and see what you think.

On Instagram Stories.

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These are joined up Instagram Stories from last month.

I’ve been having lots of fun playing with the new facility, it’s more friendly to animators than Snapchat, I feel. The lack of pressure of permanence invites experimentation, because if you fail, it’s gone in 24 hours, so who cares. That’s the way wonderful accidents can happen.

And we like those.

(Edit: This is also now viewable on YouTube)

Gwithian Sands, 2016.

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aka: INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 153-157

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153/365 13.08.16 Godrevy Light House from Gwithian Sands. V-ball. Notebook: Myrtle
154/365 13.08.16 Lifeguard point, Gwithian Sands. V-ball Notebook: Myrtle
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13.08.16
Lifeguard point, Gwithian Sands.
V-ball
Notebook: Myrtle
155/365 Seagulls, other sea birds and one hunting dog. Gwithian Sands 16.08.16 V-ball Notebook: Myrtle
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Seagulls, other sea birds and one hunting dog.
Gwithian Sands
16.08.16
V-ball
Notebook: Myrtle
156/365 St. Ives from Gwithian Sands, on the afternoon of the 8th August 2016. Pilot V-ball and Berol Colour Fine. Notebook: Myrtle.
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St. Ives from Gwithian Sands, on the afternoon of the 8th August 2016.
Pilot V-ball and Berol Colour Fine.
Notebook: Myrtle.
157/365 Sand dyne, Gwithian Sands. 17/08/16
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Sand dune, Gwithian Sands.
17/08/16

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Giving the voices a name

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I was extremely honoured to have my drawings mentioned in this Susannah Breslin piece on self negotiation and naming one’s inner critics:

“There’s Hypochron, whose superpower is overreacting to everything and also catastrophizing. Let’s not forget Lay-Ze-Bonez, which is quick to pronounce any lag in productivity a testament to one’s laziness. And, finally, we’ve got I’m Thirsty. I’m Thirsty is a head-only it-thing that lives at the bottom of a glass that is barely filled with water. It’s always thirsty. Despite the water. I hope you enjoyed meeting my new friends! It’s actually been sort of interesting and effective to think of the voices in this way. It makes them easier to be rational in relationship to. Let’s face it, these guys suck. As Ury writes: ‘Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.’ “

The Dinner Party, Susannah Breslin