Dell is all about Ubuntu
A couple months ago, my Samsung laptop went on the fritz and I was surprised to find myself tempted to purchase a Dell. It turned…
A premium Yiynova stylus
One of my previous blog posts helped set Yiynova on a path to create Linux drivers. As a “thank you,” they sent me their new premium stylus. Having Yiynova…
Yiynova monitor tablet works on Linux
Sometimes the second time is the charm. Last Friday my friend Mike (@lungching) came over to the house to help me install the Yiynova monitor…
Adobe Offsetting: August 2014
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…
Adobe Offsetting: April 2014
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…
Adobe Offsetting: December 2013
Waking up this Christmas morning, I have one task—a monthly donation as part of my monthly anti-Adobe commitment. With the emergence of the Creative Cloud,…
A significant Synfig setback
Did you ever do something stupid like drive your car for two weeks with the emergency brake on without realizing it, resulting in a damaged…
Adobe Offsetting: November 2013
This is the first of my monthly donations to open-source initiatives and software in lieu of a monthly payment for to Adobe. I’m sorry if…
Misty available for switch layers
Synfig now has the capability of creating switch layers. If you’ve never heard of switch layers before, it’s great for cut-out characters. The gist is…
New feet and hands for Misty
Today I made some headway and was able to finish Misty’s hand positions for her front view. I think that I’ll be able to reuse…
Clothing Ideas for Misty
In between working on Misty’s new feet and poses over the past weekend. I started trying out different clothing options for Misty. The cover up…
Misty and MyPaint
While I was working on all of Misty’s different poses in Synfig, I got sidetracked and started playing in a sweet open source painting program…
Understanding Z Depth in Synfig
It’s been a while since writing an entry or working in Synfig, and now I’m back doing both. I missed using Synfig over the past…
Test Lip-Sync
Giving Misty a voice Yesterday morning I thought it would be fun to test the mouths that I recently created for Misty. I tried to…
Charting a Path
Progress! So Misty is finally getting her facial expressions together. I still need to work on the body, hand and feet charts, but she’s getting…
Synfig on a Mac?
Chocolate in My Peanut Butter! Okay, for the past few years I’ve been trying to learn Synfig in fits and spurts—working on my wonderful Ubuntu…
Synfig and Advanced Outlines
New and Improved This is a product innovation that can be described as “new and improved.” For anyone who has ever longed for easily creating…
Gitting New Things Daily
Today I downloaded files from Lungching that he created illustrating Synfig libraries. They were a great help for me and I highly encourage those of…
Synfig How To: Bones Trick for Cut-Out Character
Quadro Chave is the Bomb! Quadro Chave’s nice enough to have their Synfig discoveries online on Vimeo. While watching their videos, I picked up a…
More Terminology
Hi there. I included a blurb under my terminology post because I was totally lost while reading the Synfig wiki and running into the term…
Synfig How To: Making a Cut-Out Character
I compiled these notes from the cut-out tutorial on the tutorial page for Synfig. They use an imported png images in order to create a…
Thumbalina: My Cut-Out Character for Synfig
Today I reviewed how to create a cut-out character for Synfig and created Thumbalina to explain the process. In the next couple days I’ll be…
Synfig Terminology
Words Words Words Learning the “language” of a software program is the cornerstone for comprehension. Once you can language through a process, it helps with…
Flower Tutorial Hick Up (AVERTED)
Update! Genete, one of the Synfig Gods and all around great guy, did some research and found out that there is a glitch that’s broke…
Notes for Cut-Out Animation Step-by-Step
I actually found these notes I created in 2010 for creating a cut-out character taken from the tutorial on the Synfig site. I’ll read and…
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