Lots of Krita news!

Posted on December 8th, 2012

Some exciting news about Krita:

-We now have a Krita foundation, “to support and further the development and use of Krita in any way imaginable”. It is now possible to subscribe to Krita development funding, check the link to know more about it.

-We just launched a contest to draw a new portrait of Konqui, the green dragon KDE mascot. Again check the link for details if you’re interested to enter the contest. The jury consists of David Revoy, Nuno Pinheiro and me, so I’m looking forward to your entries! 🙂

On a side note, here’s a little funny screencast I made with Krita, to promote the new Ultrabooks touch at the mineconf:

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Krita demo @ Minecon

Posted on November 28th, 2012

Last week-end, I was at “Minecon 2012” in Disneyland Paris, doing some Krita sketch demos at the Intel booth.

The demos topic was drawing people’s portrait in a speedpainted minecraft style, which was a fun work.
People looked very interested in Krita sketch and touch painting, so I think it was successful.

Also it was a very cool place to be, thanks to the great minecraft community 🙂

Here’s a little video showing the booth:

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Mixed news

Posted on September 15th, 2012

Last week, the kickstarter for Lunatics pilot voice+storyboard production has failed (not too far from the goal, almost 75%). The project is still going on, though I won’t can do the pilot storyboard animatics, and so they’ll use rough sketches from Terry instead. Still I’ll try to contribute to it in my spare time.
You can keep supporting this cool Free Culture project with the donation link on the official webpage: http://lunatics.tv/

On another topic, I’m working now on interface design for Krita Sketch, which is the upcoming minimal tablet-optimised version of Krita.
It’s still in alpha stage, more news to come soon.

Also I’ve made a new icon for Krita, based on the squirrel mascot, take a look:

Krita New Icon

If you build Krita from git master, you should have the new icon already. If it still use the old one when running, make sure to erase the kde icon cache ( rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-”user”/icon-cache.kcache ), and also erase the krita.png icons from the oxygen package (here they were in /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16×16/apps , in all folders from 16×16 to 128×128).

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Lunatics production: Plan B started

Posted on August 16th, 2012

Hi,

As the Kickstarter for the full production of the pilot was likely not going to succeed, Terry launched “Plan B”: He cancelled this “too big for now” kickstarter and launched another one, much smaller, to fund the animatics and audio recording for the pilot.

Check the details HERE.

Let’s hope this one will succeed, and that the results of this step will bring enough audience to enable the rest of the production.

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Lunatics production Kickstarter launched

Posted on July 24th, 2012

Since a few days the Kickstarter fund-raising for the Lunatics animation production has begun!

For those who don’t know Lunatics yet, it’s a project of animation (mostly cell-shaded 3D + some 2D) telling a “realistic” science-fiction story about the first settlers on the Moon. The project is using only free-software for production, and the result will be released on a free Creative-Commons licence.

Check the link, and please help us make it happen 🙂

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