I have just begun submitting work to @society6 , where you can purchase prints, mugs, iPhone cases and al sorts with my work on!
After some me research it appeared to me that Society6 was a great place for time strapped part-that me artists to get their work into the world.
I have plenty more to add (and there will be some colour!) so please follow if you can and I’ll keep updating on what’s available.
Search there for my name: “Paul Greer” or else here’s the link 👍.
“There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing — apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud — and it doesn’t matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it is in another language.) What matters, above all, is educating the ear”
Let’s do 2017.
Be good. Be bad. Be kind. Be useful.
Don’t let the ****ers get you down.
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.
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.
“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.
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)
It’s day three of the Greer Family Chrimbo Limbo Star Wars Marathon.
We’re doing release order, no omissions.
#forrealz
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