Animation

anɪˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

 1. the state of being full of life or vigour; liveliness.

2.  the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the film is shown as a sequence.”a combination of live action with 3-D animation”

Two Sided Week

Aside | | Paul Greer

1. Good Thing.

The Animate Journal was featured on the excellent 4mations website. They said:

“I’m not really sure what to make of Paul’s animated experiments but there is something hypnotic and mesmerizing about these snippets of life. It’s like dipping a toe in somebody else’s sensorial experience, vaguely voyeuristic without the seedy Big Brother connotations. Which is a good thing, because somehow I doubt an animator’s lifestyle could compete with the glossy glamour of watching a Z-list celebrity painting their toenails.”

2. Not So Good Thing

The promising 5lights tumblr project ended this week. It was shaping up to be something very special, and I was due to be a Monday person on it for a month around autumn. I’ve started concocting four “pieces” and may follow through with these anyway.

All the best to Lou and Katie for their future projects.

Enjoy August.

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I’m not really …

Quote | | Paul Greer

“I’m not really sure what to make of Paul’s animated experiments but there is something hypnotic and mesmerizing about these snippets of life. It’s like dipping a toe in somebody else’s sensorial experience, vaguely voyeuristic without the seedy Big Brother connotations. Which is a good thing, because somehow I doubt an animator’s lifestyle could compete with the glossy glamour of watching a Z-list celebrity painting their toenails.”

– 4mations on Animated Journal

Toad now on Vimeo

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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.”