Animated Journal No. 6 Now On-Line

Animated Journal No.6.

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Animated Journal No.5

not sure what happened here, ended up all buzzy and blurry and that..

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Some Links About Stuff...

SIREN Comic Collection: "SIREN is an anthology of illustrated short stories and comics. Each story deals with the theme of being lured and caught in a different way. From Ben Jelter's sci-fi vision of corporate evil Wetware to Frank Lin's heartbreaking tale of memories haunt, the genres and styles within greatly vary. The artists included have been published in Creative Quarterly, Spectrum, Society of Illustrators Annual, CMYK, and others. Come see us at the launch of the book at APE 2009, in San Francisco!" tagged: comics

Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis: "In comics, the ellipsis — a spatio-temporal jump in the narration which happens between panels — is a given which the reader, quite often, ignores. ." tagged: comics theory

Dykstra Talks Inglourious Basterds: "VFX guru John Dykstra discusses what it was like working with Quentin Tarantino on his wild World War II opus, which stars Brad Pitt and his merry band of Nazi hunters." tagged: CGI tarantino


PETER SHIPKOV "I know that for many people CG is just work like any other, but for me it is like hobby. Actually it is much more - it is my true passion." tagged: maya CGI Tutorials

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Notebook Pages

 

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Check It

Animated Journal No.1 has been added to the splendid Check It! channel on Vimeo.
Lots of excellent things on there, so you go do that.

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The Ingoing: The Gift

man ray
via theingoing.com

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New Method

I have joined posterous (http://burningfp.posterous.com/) so posts here will be coming from there from now on...I think.

We'll see how it goes, I've been persuaded by some internet guru's to give it a go.

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Animated Journal No.4 170809

Animated Journal Part 4 170809.

Bell themed

Two Sided Week

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 Noble and Katie West for their future projects.

Enjoy August.

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Yellowstone Content Graphics

(movie here)

At BDH we did the titles and content graphics for the BBC NHU series Yellowstone.

Using NASA Landsat and height data to create "shuttle-view" aerials, we had the pleasure of matching the mood and lighting of the amazing footage the team shot on location.

Final Delivery was in HD.

Animated Journal No. 2 100709

Animomento No. 2 100709


cross posted on tumblr.

Animated Journal No.1 030709

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.

Drawing Day: West of England 6th June 2009

This is my submission for Drawing Day 2009 .

Nizlopi Viral on Reverse Cowgirl

The Viral I worked on for pop group Nizlopi is featured on the Reverse Cowgirl's Tumblr.

That's Internet-Jesus, Susannah Breslin.

Toad Now On Vimeo

Toad from Paul Greer on Vimeo.

Big Ups

It has been Web Comics Week on Warren Ellis ' WhiteChapel forum. It's well worth checking out, with pages of recommendations, most of them excellent.

And due to my Mad-Skills-in-Twitterland I managed to get "Horticultural Fudge" on page 1.

"Horticultural Fudge" also got a mention on the mighty Austin Kleon's Tumblelog recently.

Speaking of Tumblelogs, RattleBag is now listed under animation, artist and comics. in the new Tumblr directory.

Many thanks to all.

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Cars

Notebook 7-06 Page 17

Approximation of the Balmoral often found on Bristols' Floating Harbour.

Start as You Mean To Finish (and then carry on)

From now on, I 'll only post on here when I've made something.

I continue to post to my Tumble-log and Twitter of course.

You can still contact me at my email.

Much Love

BurningFP

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Notebook 2008 page 21

Plans

I am planning on posting here again, I am, honest.  Currently considering ways of streamlining the process to end up with content that is actually readable.

Tumblr is much easier to post to, just one click, and I am loving that format, and have built a reasonable following over there.  But often the results are undecipherable for a person who does not actually use it.

Wordpress is able to take automatic feeds, but frankly the idea of automating stuff frightens me beacause you never know how it'll actually look when it goes up.

Eventually I'll get there and this blog will be the useful tool I've been planning.

Maya Frame Loop expression

Note to self: the expression "(frame)%250" will loop a 250 frame sequence in Maya. But they don't put it in the help files.

Y'all got that?

Hourly Comics Day 2

First thing next morning looking over it, it didn't turn out as I expected, I meant to do it all myself, but chores and parental stuff took over, and once the children had seen what i was doing they all wanted to do it themselves.

So the experience has been great for three reasons:

1). Introducing me to the idea of diary comicing again. something I'd like to keep trying, because I do believe it helps fluency.

2). My wife really got into drawing her bit, and was inspired to do the "butterfly parade" page at the end there. That made her very happy.

3). Introducing my children to the idea of drawing comics. They've seen me sitting about drawing in little books, but was great to invite them in and then see them taking part.

My Eldest was so inspired, she ended up continutng her own spin-off-cross-over piece I'll attach below.

So we all had a full day and a great time doing the comic, hopefully I'll be on board next year.

cheers then

PG

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You can see our comic here.

"Without You" on Cartoon Brew

Very pleased to announce that the work I did at BDH on the viral for "Without You" has been featured on Cartoon Brew. They published my short description of the methods used to make it.

Some nice comments too.

Hourly Comic Day

Tomorrow is Hourly Comic Day, when artists the world over will make one comic per hour of wakefullness.

I intend to participate in this, although Sundays are usually hectic at my place.

Will let you know how it goes.

Animation Axis Round Up 23rd Jan 2009

Required viewing for this week has been:



Durex Ad by SuperFad
Warning: Contains Rudeness.
(via ReverseCowgirl)

Neighbours by Norman Mclaren
(via Films : - NFB)

There’s Something In The Water by Conkerco
(via Laughing Squid)

Pen Point Percussion with Norman McLaren.
(via carlosbela & ingoing)

Street of Crocodiles by Brothers Quay - parts 1 & 2
(via jonbeinart)

Water for Maya - Span Style by Stan Brakhage
(via Lottedyskolia)

Happy Birthday Mr. Lynch

image via

Yesterday, as well as being New President Day, it was the birthday of illustrious film maker David Lynch.

I recently finished reading his book "Catching the Big Fish", a very personal account of his approach to creativity, and the role that meditation plays in it.

I have often felt that techniques like meditation may result in bland art, due to lack of "pain", a deluded idea partly inspired by Captain Kirk (I'll explain another time). Mr Lynch is a very good example of how this is not the case.

In the book he writes:

"Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a a story, but they're like poison for the film maker or artist. They're like a vice grip on creativity. If you're in that grip you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create. You have to be able to catch ideas."

Here is a little seen, very short film by Mr Lynch:

movie via Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

Belated birthday greetings to you, Mr Lynch.

Progress

I've taken a break from posting on here, to regroup a bit, get some perspective.

I have discovered that trying to use this site to blog comics is a gross arse pain, and pointless, when there are many places purpose built for such an enterprise.

So I'll stop doing that.

I've been working in CGI Animation for some time now, but still feel like I know very little (compared to what I feel I should know) about it, film making or making comics. I always seek to learn new things, stretch my abilites, so I'm ready (because if you're always ready, you never have to get ready, right?).

So this blog will become a kind of progress report, and place to share what I learn. And as I say, it won't just be animation related, film making and comics will find a place here too.

I continue to tumble sources of inspiration, and twitter ill advised sentiments expressed in moments of weakness.

Horticultural Fudge

...is finished now, and is in new easy-to-read format on my tumblr, here.

Tumblr is a micro-blogging system where I post found stuff of various kinds in a much more instinctive and ill-thought out manner than on here.

Links: Best of November

Animation Axis
Come Have An Omelette with Me - Stephen Neary

From Cartoon Brew: "I’m not sure why I’m linking to this one-minute short besides the fact that it made me want to have an omelette."

The Go! Team - FeelGood By Numbers by Anarchemitis
Happy Fan Video

Michael Sporn - Oscar Nominations for Animated Short

Comic Roll
Krazy Kat births Quimby Mouse " Consequentialart's Sequential Art Class
"Chris Ware is the absolute best thing in comics for a plethora of reasons, one of which is the fact that he has absorbed the entire history of great newspaper comics. Many, many have tried to match the ingenuity of George Herriman’s intricate layout games"
The Western Nostril

Chris Ware is the absolute best thing in comics for a plethora of reasons, one of which is the fact that he has absorbed the entire history of great newspaper comics. Many, many have tried to match the ingenuity of George Herriman’s intricate layout games
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"Osteus, where's your tennis racquet?" 

"I forgot to bring it - but's ok, I'll use my tennis elbow.

Symphony in Black and White: Krazy Kat

"Osteus, where's your tennis racquet?" "I forgot to bring it - but's ok, I'll use my tennis elbow.
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A look at Herrimans heritage and the effects on Krazy Kat  

Tumblr
Charlie Brooker on Brand-Ross-Gate 
Beron Gyula
Take That have become ColdPlay
That Certain Female - Charlie Feathers
"I Still Feel Kind of Temporary About Myself"
Sheile
Lyonel Feininger

Too Art For TV

I'm having some work shown at the excellent "Too Art For TV" exhibition held at Erebuni, 158 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, New York.The opening is a week today (6-9pm 5th Dec)and the exhibition runs from 5th until the 15th Dec. The idea is to show work by industry animators who do art on the side:
"Erebuni is pleased to present Too Art for TV 3, the third annual group exhibition showcasing the fine art expressions of the animation industry. Twice before, this show has drawn in excited, elbow-to-elbow crowds of artists, illustrators, filmmakers, animators, and fans of animation. This year’s exhibit, now the biggest one in Too Art for TV’s history, features 36 artists who- by way of toys, prints, paintings, sculptures, and experimental film- will set free their skills otherwise "owned" by television networks bosses."
If you're in town please check it out. You can see from the website that there'll be lots of exciting stuff to see, made by people far more talented and interesting than myself.

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