Over the past year I’ve learned a lot about supporting technology. Whether it’s online content, software, or hardware; monetarily supporting services helps further future development. It keeps the developers fed and happy. If you believe that a certain program could be the next big painting application, back it any way you can. If you can’t […]
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For December, I thought it would better to hear directly from the source with an interview. Gustav González, the main developer for Tupi, has been making great strides with his software even though he’s had limited development time and monetary support. If you’re not familiar with Tupi, it’s 2D animation software that’s similar to Flash or Toon
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It’s only fitting to donate to Synfig since that’s who I started with last November. Synfig is a powerful vector 2D animation tool that’s made great strides in the past year. They’ve been working on educational tutorials, improvements, and a clearer interface. Dimitry and his team has worked tirelessly to improve and build upon their strong
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For October I decided to support a wonderful free resource instead of my usual software endorsement for this month’s Adobe Offsetting. As an artist, it’s always helpful to acquire quick visual escapes which provide reference and inspiration for future creations. The Digital Comics Museum (DCM) provides that immersion with a catalogue of thousands of downloadable golden-age
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I was hoping it was still September somewhere in the world yesterday morning when I made my contribution to Adobe Offsetting. I wanted to give to a new project, but I couldn’t help but to give Krita more props for all their hard work over these past months. Instant tranformations Krita has been hard at
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It was difficult to come up with what to support for this month. Do I find another software to support? Do I spend time looking for artist projects on Kickstarter to get behind? Or do I reinvest in software development that I’ve given to in the past? The problem with trying to figure this out
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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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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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So this is my first donation to Gimp! The best way to support the evolution of software to replace Photoshop is to give money to the ones that can make alternatives a reality. Earlier this year, I’ve began weening myself off being dependent on Photoshop. Over the past 10 years I’ve grown to love Photoshop
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