Wacom is the ultimate company for tablets. I’ve been using them almost exclusively for over twenty years. Their dominance in the tablet industry is directly correlated to their pursuit for building quality products. With that quality and exclusivity comes a hefty price tag. In the past year I was looking to upgrade my desktop workstation with […]
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I discovered shortly after my blog post yesterday on great animation software announcements that Tupi was launching their Indiegogo campaign the following day. Well today is the following day and you can now contribute to Tupi for a Windows version plus Gustav’s next series of fixes and features. http://vimeo.com/99677105 Last year, Gustav launched a campaign on
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In the past month there have been many great developments in animation software. We’re seeing new life being breathed into old friends and groundbreaking developments with others. It’s an exciting time for software and I’m sure that the developers need a little sleep. What it gives us users is Christmas in July. Old acquaintances are
Animation a plenty! Read More »
Hopefully it’s still June somewhere in the world. I was going to write this post last night, but I ended up playing with the software that received June’s donation—Krita! For those of you that don’t know Krita, it’s a wonderful natural media painting tool like ArtRage or Manga Studio. Krita released a major upgrade last
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By nature, most artists aren’t built to be pack animals. They tend to prefer seclusion and autonomy over team-building activities with peers. Most artists are purists and want work to come solely from themselves instead of a group effort. Part of that is built around ego while another part comes from the need to create
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What can I say other than that Blender is an amazing tool. As I’ve learned more and more about the software over the past 60 days, I’m impressed with how efficient the and straight-forward the experience is as a noobie has been. In the past I tried to learn 3D but I ultimately would become
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So I decided to record my first attempt at creating a masked composite in Gimp. I still have a lot to learn, but I was able to create a masked image pretty quickly with decent result. Below is a video of the experience. I added text on the video to illustrate what was happening at
This will be a short and sweet post for this month’s Adobe Offsetting. For the second month in a row, I decided to back Project Gooseberry for Blender. Repeat performance There are many reasons why I decided to donate for a second month in a row. Over the past weeks, I’ve been spending any possible
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A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an event on Google Plus. It was for an animation workshop using open-source software presented by Ricardo Graça. The only problem is that the workshop will be held in Rio. They will be capturing the upcoming event on video but the lecture will be in Portuguese.
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A few days ago I decided to start make an official break with Adobe in my personal life and work in open source software and other alternatives. I haven’t quit cold turkey. I left myself an Adobe parachute just in case I need it. It’s definitely risk-aversion. Instead of deleting the Adobe Suite from all
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