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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Still not sure about the name, but anyhow.
I’ve always like the picture a day format, video diaries etc, and wanted to loosen my fixation that animation is a long drawn out torture-fest.
So here I am making it about instincts, ephemera & brevity.
Hopefully weekly, probably more like monthly.
There is no quality guarantee.
Headphones on.
Word to describe animated journally type thing I’m starting: animomento or momentation?
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“
As I walked out
The other day
My head fell off
And rolled away.When I noticed
It had gone
I picked it up
And put it on.”
Had excellent time watching Glastonbury footage over the weekend, although the beeb were a bit stingey with new acts on freeview.
Cried about 5 times.
Would like to post some YouTubes, but they’ve all been taken down. The Curious can go and check out the online stuff here. Its very incomplete, but better than nothing.
Highlights were Bruce singing “The River” (he was actually visibley steaming like a horse, ffs (47:30)), The Specials, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (obviously), La Roux, Metronomy, Blurs comeback (very emotional), Neil Young showing everyone how to play guitar, watching Madness with the kiddies (eldest made everyone flags (including important toys) to wave, Bon Iver, Bat for Lashes (she is from outerspace), Lady Gaga (two words: firework tits), Nick Cave and more other stuff than I care to mention.
And one day I will manage to go again, ideally in the form of provider rather than punter, so maybe see you there.
Warren Ellis on the above mentioned Springsteen MOMENT:
“And he’s just blown the authenticity
thing and gone into supermystification, because it
looks like he’s got an electromagnetic halo, curls of
glowing, pearly white light rising up from and playing
around his head and shoulders while he stands there
in near-silhouette…. He looks like he’s The Last Rock Star, the Ascended
Master who glows in the dark.”
Fortune: “Shake it like a ladder to the sun”
Toad from Paul Greer on Vimeo.
This was a project that was very long in the making. It began as very heavily storyboarded drawn piece based on a poem and the piece of music I had.
It slowly degenerated into the above.
Made in Maya.
So recently I submitted it to a few festivals with the following synopsis:
“God’s taps gleamed far above, like Chomolungma’s peak, but they leaked . The Devil’s toad sat by the death plug unable to progress beyond early meiotic division. Although distressed by Charons pet nymphs, it gained succour from the drip and stole time before new washers arrived.
Short psychedelic whimsey.”
Paul Greer 