Here is an update of the first pages of my new comics project. I released those last month in french only, and with almost only “auto-colors” (with the new G’mic filter…).
So I’ve updated the colors adding some simple shadings, and added the english version for all the non-frenchies ;.)
Freestyle Fiction – Episode 01 – part A FRENCH
Freestyle Fiction – Episode 01 – part A ENGLISH
The next pages are not ready yet but have made good progress, stay tuned for next news!
I’m back now from Akademy 2013 in Bilbao. It was a great event where I could meet so much great people from the KDE community. The kind of moment you don’t sleep a lot as there are always nice people to share a cool moment, being communicative and creative, and that at the end you feel like: “ho, no, it’s already the end!” 😉
I learned a lot with all the interesting talks the first 2 days, made a demo presentation about Krita history and fast progress on Sunday morning, had the great surprise to recieve one of this year’s Akademy awards for my work on “shaping the future and community of Krita”, again learned a lot during the BOFs and workshop during the week, and had an incredibly good time, so much thanks to the local team who did a perfect work.
You can find links to lot of nice photos from the event here.
The talks were recorded so my Krita demo should be available on the web soon, until then is already available on the web with all other videos since a few days, good work! And here are a few photos of it:
Sketching quickly the new Konqi greeting the Akademy people…
Showing the new smoothing features for inking step…
The fill tool made good progress too, with auto grow/shrink option and improved speed performance…
An exemple of comics page colors “auto-filled” with the new G’mic filter, waiting to get G’mic directly in Krita…
Keyframes animation feature with top-level group-layers and group/frame-switch shortcuts…
Now time to get back to work, to clear this big todo list I filed there..
And see you there next year for sure!
Finally, after quite a long time, here are the first pages of my new comics project, using Krita development version from scratch (well, almost only as you’ll see further). So enjoy, it’s only a few pages for now but hopefuly the next parts will come faster. I made only French version for now, I’ll publish english version soon. Original files are A4 600dpi, but the images inside the PDF are resized to 300dpi to make it lighter to download.
Freestyle Fiction – Episode 01 – part A
File size: 3,6Mio
I’ve chosen to release it on a Creative-Commons BY-SA license. So we can really call it a free and open comics, as it will easily allow daptations and spin-offs of all kinds from anyone (after a few more pages published, of course for now not enough of the story is told to make some big related project..).
Also at the same time I’m happy to tell I’ve decided to re-license all of my available work that was CreativeCommons-BY-NC-ND or NC-SA to CC-BY-SA. This includes of course the parts of “Comics with Krita” content that was using those license.. So now it’s completly free, which is much better 😉
A special thanks to David Tschumperlé for his work on the “comics color” G’mic filter which is an awesome time saver. As I said above, here I mostly used Krita but also used this G’mic filter with Gimp. But hopefuly we’ll soon see G’mic integrated directly in Krita (thanks to the great work in progress by Lukáš Tvrdý 😉 ), so I won’t need to switch anymore for this.
This year for the first time I’ll go to Akademy, the annual world summit of KDE. It will take place in Bilbao, from 13th to 19th of July.
There I’ll make a talk about “Krita progress”, showing the cool new features that can help a lot for comics and animation workflow.
Check the full program here, and if you plan to come, register here.
See you there!
Here’s another illustration I posted on Krita forum a few weeks ago, which I made as a style-test for the next little comics project I’ve started to work on. By the way, it should be ready before the end of this month if everything goes well, so stay tuned 😉
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, Claudia Krummenacher who raised some interesting questions about print vs ebook and liquid layout, Dave Crossland and Ben Martin showing the great new more-than-welcome improvments of FontForge, Jakub Steiner who made an interesting use of Blender for a 2D animation work, Tavmjong Bah who presented the future of SVG features, the Piksels and lines orchestra who made a fun performance using libre graphics software to produce pictures and sound, and many, many others…
Sorry to not mention everyone, the list is too long (there were 65 talks/workshops this year, not counting all the open-podium lighting talks).
I’m very happy to can have been there this year again, so much thanks to KDE e.V. who supported me for this event!
And of course again so much thanks to Femke Snelting and the Medialab-prado team who made an awesome work organizing this event.
Photos above from Carlos Lopez and David Revoy‘s albums ; More photos of the event HERE and HERE.
