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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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Aside | | Paul Greer

I’m pissed, here’s some advice:

  1. When it comes down to people, and what they do, there is no such thing as normal.
  2. You can’t control how you feel, but you can control how you feel about how you feel.
  3. Don’t eat things that come from sad animals.
  4. Everything is connected.
  5. If you want someone, and they don’t want you back, try not to take it personally.
  6. Avoid time wasters.
  7. The brain you already have inside your head is probably the best piece of technology that will ever exist. User guides are available.
  8. Don’t trust people who tell you how to live.

(T)

How we made the sound for “Toad”

Aside | | Paul Greer

I haven’t been well the last few days, mostly sleeping and dreaming.

One day I was remembering an old friend of ours, who still is very dear to us, but to whom we haven’t spoken for a long time.

Around the time we hung out, I was trying to make a film about a Toad that sat underneath a giant tap to keep itself alive.  I needed a soundtrack, so I stealthily rigged up the old Juno and programmed it up with a crazy organ noise. S’ was out at the previously mentioned friends house and came back in a rather chilled mood. Unprompted, she sat at the keyboard and straight out played this, I had the 4-track ready to go and caught it.

Many years later I finished the film, and here it is.

I watched it a few days ago and realised that behind the toad thing it’s a concealed love letter from us, to our dear friend.

This post is for her.