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Libre Graphics Meeting 2013

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The 2013 Libre Graphics Meeting is over and everyone has returned home and gone back to the drawing board or the keyboard. Krita has been very well represented at this LGM with three artists and a coder, giving three presentations and two awesome workshops!

The Medialab Prado venue was pretty much perfect: hacking space, auditorium, workshop space, open until late, and an endless supply of good coffee. The presentations were life-streamed, but there appear to be no recordings available yet.

(Image by Timothee Giet)

So what happened?

First, Timothee Giet gave his workshop on Krita Sketch. Unfortunately, what with slow network, it turned out to be quite hard to make sure everyone had Krita Sketch on their systems, so in the end, the workshop became more an “install and get introduced to Krita” workshop, which was pretty cool, too — since the workshop was early on Thursday, and it meant many people had Krita on their system for the rest of the week!

That evening (or afternoon, for the Spanish among us, the days were long this year, with presentations going until well after Dutch dinner time!), Boudewijn presented the Krita Foundation. As regular readers of Krita news know, the Foundation was created to support Krita development.

This was closely followed by Timothee Giet speaking about Krita Sketch, how the project came to be, the goals, the gui design and his role in the development. This is what Krita Sketch looks like these days, and an update on Intel AppUp is expected soon!

The next day, Ramon Miranda gave a lightning talk on the Muses DVD he is preparing. Slated to be ready for Akademy in Bilbao (Ramon’s hometown), the dvd promises to be wonderful, not just teaching Krita, but teaching the fundamentals of digital illustration. Pre-order your copy now!

The pre-order price is just €27.50, including shipping. The DVD is expected to be ready for presentation at Akademy 2013 in Bilboa, Spain, July 13th.

Muses: Painting with Krita DVD
Special pre-order price including shipping and V.A.T: €27.50

Or read more about in the bilingual (Spanish/English) Flyer we handed out at LGM!

Also on Thursday, David Revoy gave his Krita workshop. starting with the basics of calibrating your tablet and creating an ergonomic setup, David continued teaching the fundamentals of underpainting (make sure you use only one, big, round brush, work in grayscale, never use the extrems of value available, switch between eraser and normal all the time, paint values, not symbols and remember this: it’s painting that’s a hard skill you need to work on, applications are easy to learn), and then coloring and detailing. There were some very pretty things made during this workshop!

The great thing about the Libre Graphics Meeting is, of course, getting together. There are developers, artists, thinkers, users. People are working on magazines, typefaces, music, generative art, illustrations, comics, layout tools and more. And it’s a great place for teams to get together

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/krita/news/~3/ClUmCyrcFTQ/144-libre-graphics-meeting-2013

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Back from the “Future Tools” LGM 2013

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I’m just back home from the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, which was once again awesome!
It happened in Madrid this time, at the Medialab-Prado.

There were a lot of interesting talks and workshops, mixing coder and artistic topics.
All kinds of graphics-related activities were represented, including image manipulation, typography, illustration, animation, design, and more.
The Krita team was well represented with Boudewijn Rempt who presented the new Krita Foundation, David Revoy who made a workshop showing his painting workflow on Krita, Ramon Miranda who presented his DVD project, and me who made both a workshop and a talk to present Krita Sketch.

My workshop was a little hard to follow for several reasons: people had to compile Krita Sketch for linux as there aren’t any linux packages yet, which was already quite tricky, but then even more as the network there was way too slow for this big event…
Same for windows users, as the installer file which took a long time to download ended being corrupted.
So at around half of the workshop I switched to Krita desktop, and made people install it as it was easier.
The good thing in this at least is that then people already had the software installed to follow David’s workshop the next day.

In my talk I presented quickly the story behind the Krita Sketch project, and shown the new dark-neutral-grey interface theme that replaced the colorful previous interface for next version release (it’s already pushed in Krita sketch git branch, if you want to test it…)

It was very cool to meet more people from the Synfig team this time, with Carlos Lopez (the main coder), Konstantin Dmitriev (Morevna project), and a few other users.
We could have a great brainstorming workshop together to look at how Synfig can be improved, both in terms of usability and new features. Awesome things to come!

Also about animation, the main coder from Tupi, Gustav Gonzalez could come for the first time at LGM to present his software and discuss with other coders and users to gather ideas to improve it (including some features collaborating with Krita..). Again, promising!

Many cool people were there: the Gimp team (many thanks to them for the great party on Friday night ), the Libre-Graphics-Magazine team with a nice new 2.1 release, some people from Mypaint, Scribus, Inkscape and Libre-office teams.

Also several independants and smaller projects were present, like Tom Lechner with his always-more-crazy Laidout software, Camille Bissuel and Cedric Gémy from the to-come project of node-based image editor Mikado, PyCessing, <a target=_blank

From: http://timotheegiet.com/blog/anim/back-from-the-future-tools-lgm-2013.html

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Akademy-Fr in Toulouse

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Akademy-Fr happened in Toulouse last week-end part of a bigger FOSS event in Toulouse named
A track with talks about KDE also went on in the room near the booth: Kévin Ottens presented KDE as a community, Lambert Clara promoted KDevelop as an IDE for everyone’s project, Sébastien Renard explained how the French translation team checks translations in order to reach quality (using pology for example). David Faure then lead us to debug programs using valgrind, reading backtraces, having a thorough process when debugging and much more. Sébastien explained how to tackle IT complexity based on his own experiment.
Meanwhile, the KDE booth was always staffed and passers-by enjoyed the demos (Marble on a desktop, on Plasma Active and on a N9 for example) and could learn more about KDE with great leaflets.
I was particularly impressed to meet David Revoy who is an artiste living in Toulouse and he uses Krita for his professional graphical work. I also met an enthusiastic teacher who uses Kalzium and said that no other software can beat it. It’s great to see people using and enjoying our software and choosing it over proprietary ones.
On Sunday we had several workshops: translation, Frameworks5 and UI Consulting. Groups of people were busy learning and contributing.
Doctor UI aka Aurélien
Frameworks5 Team
Thanks to the sponsors and to Kévin, Jean-Nicolas, Benjamin for the organization. Thanks to the other Kévin and PixCyl for the great leaflet!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Krita at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013

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Next week, the Libre Graphics Meeting will happen again! This time in the Media Lab Prado in Madrid, and titled “Future Tools”, it looks set to be an amazing experience. And with plenty of Krita content!

Timothée Giet will give a workshop on using Krita Sketch at 14:30, Wednessday April 10th at the Libre Graphic Meeting in Medialab Prado‘s brand new building in Madrid city center.

Later that day, at 17:40, Boudewijn Rempt will introduce the Krita Foundation in a lightning talk. The Krita Foundation is essential for the future of Krita, we’ll go through problems and challenges that the Foundation was created to cope with.

Hot on Boudewijn’s heels, Timothée Giet will present the Krita Sketch project: Krita Sketch is touch-enabled tablet-oriented application derived from Krita. Timothée will discuss how the project happened and much more.

Then, on Friday, David Revoy will give a painting workshop with Krita. The main topic will be “speedpainting with Krita”, so bring your laptops and tablets, and try to have the latest Krita installed! (Use David’s scripts, for instance.) Place / Date / Hour: Friday 12 april 2013 at the Libre Graphic Meeting in Medialab Prado‘s brand new building in Madrid city center. Workshop will happen between 14h30 – 16h30 ( duration 2h ) in Room C.

All LGM long, Ramon Miranda will be around to answer questions about his “Muses” project, the second Krita training DVD, There will be ample opportunity for pre-orders on the spot, as well! Ramon speaks both Spanish and English, so grab the opportunity!

But, of course, you can also pre-order the DVD on-line:

The pre-order price is just €27.50, including shipping. The DVD is expected to be ready for presentation at Akademy 2013 in Bilboa, Spain, July 13th.

Muses: Painting with Krita DVD
Special pre-order price including shipping and V.A.T: €27.50

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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The London Expedition

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Thursday, 21st March, David Revoy, Boudewijn Rempt and Inge Wallin took a plane to London to visit Double Negative. Double Negative is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, VFX studio in London. We were invited by Simon Legrand, who works as a technical director at Double Negative. Simon has been using Krita for his work in a previous studio on G.I. Joe 2 and other unreleased titles, and he had invited us there, to meet with him and his colleagues from the industry.

On Thursday, we sat down with Simon and looked at ways Krita can be integrated in a VFX pipeline — we’re already doing pretty good, with OpenColorIO and OpenEXR support, but things could be better, still. Deep integration with Nuke, dynamic, file-based layers, an Adobe Bridge like image manager — which made us think of Gwenview or Dolphin. In the evening, we sat down with Andrew Harvey from Reliance Mediaworks, formerly Digital Domain London where Simon made extensive use of Krita previously.

David, Boudewijn, Inge and Simon in the Double Negative lobby

Next day, Inge, as a representative of KO GmbH, started working on prices and support offerings, while Boudewijn started hacking on the file-based layers feature.

In the afternoon, Gavin Graham from Double Negative hosted a meeting in the Double Negative offices. He is a head of 3D at Double Negative. It was an awesome experience to present Krita to him and a room full of artists from different departments — matte painters, texture painters, concept artists.

David gave live demos on a big screen of the features these people were asking for — and sure, there were some wishes, like better cloning/healing, improved masking (which Dmitry Kazakov, sponsored by the Krita Foundation is already working on!), but it was great to see how well Krita already supports the needs of the VFX industry!

A great meeting was followed by an impressive tour of the Double Negative offices, room after darkened room full of people totally focused on the next blockbuster movie.

Inge, Boudewijn and David in the Double Negative Office

Inge, Boudewijn and Gavin in the Double Negative Office

Finally, on Friday night we went to a night club (first time in my life!) to meet with people from The Foundry. Nuke looks like a prime candidate to integrate with Krita, and now we only have to figure out how to do that…

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Krita around the web

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A quick batch of cool links while I’m in London with David Revoy and Inge Wallin, “studying the VFX industry” — learning a lot, actualy, about why Krita is awesome as part of a VFX workflow, and what can be better… And there is already work being done on features that are important for texture artists and matte painters”

Sponsored by the Krita Foundation, Dmitry Kazakov has improved the Color to Alpha filter beyond all recognition. His work was mentioned before on this website, but check out his blog to see what can be done to sweeten Tears of Steel.

Lukáš Tvrdý, a previous recipient of sponsored development, started working on improving support for texturing, implementing a layer offset tool. Read all about it on his blog and watch the cool demo video.

Two weeks ago, the Krita team assembled in the Linux Hotel in Essen-Horst. Sven Langkamp gives a report on his blog. Work on what has been discussed is already going on — though obviously, we could use more helping hands. So if you want to be part of a fun, open, welcoming project, check out the Join Krita page Valerie created!

And while I don’t think that we’re really competing with Gimp — Krita and Gimp have quite different target audiences, an article like this one by Carla Schroeder is always nice to read.

And did you know that Krita has already been used on real feature movies? I saw some actual footage yesterday. Awesome! It’s always inspiring to see work done with Krita — like David’s warm-up images, or Ramon Miranda’s landscapes.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Krita Sketch at the Mobile World Congress

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Last week, February 12 and 13, Dan Jensen and me, Boudewijn, were at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the invitation of Intel, to give a demonstration of Krita on the desktop and Krita Sketch on a Windows 8 tablet.

We were guests in the Intel Application booth, which was pretty much perfectly situated, near the entrance of the biggest hall, and our demo station was right at the entrance of the booth:

We had two time slots, one on Tuesday morning, when everyone was fresh and interested, and one on Wednesday afternoon, when the press came out of their lairs and showed up, filled to the brim with curiosity.

Dan and I had had t-shirts made with the 2.6 mascot created by Tyson Tan on it:

Pretty soon we’ll make shirts with that design available for sale! The shirts were really cute and totally attention grabbing, as was the video David Revoy has created about the upcoming transform tool improvements which we showed looping on the big screen.

We showed Krita Sketch and Krita Desktop on Windows 8, on a Lenovo laptop and a Windows 8 tablet, but in between there was a little Nexus 7 running Plasma Active and Krita Sketch — among all the attention FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Touch was getting, it was a good feeling to know that KDE and Plasma Active were among those present.

This really was the first time that Krita has been presented at a large trade show, outside the free software world, and we were naturally quite anxious, but reactions were overwelmingly positive! People were wondering how an application this impressive could actually be free.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE