graphical blog 2

After an exercise in painting workshop. This exercise was used by Picasso or Fragonard. Draw rounding lines until a chaos appear. In this chaos see shapes and paint them to get them out.

Technique : Mypaint & Wacom

I already wrote an article on an animation patch for Mypaint, and a very short try by mouse, there is now a specific branch with a new functionality (background layers/cellulos layers), that will be merged back in trunk as soon as everything is hidden in preferences, and I’ve no a new Wacom graphic tablet to play with it.

Demo of new functionality(Youtube) local copy:

The new branch can be seen and get from this address, installed and launched as follow

Debian based only (Debian, Ubuntu…):

sudo apt-get install g++ python-dev libglib2.0-dev python-numpy swig scons gettext python-protobuf protobuf-compiler

git clone git://gitorious.org/~charbelinho/mypaint/charbelinho-mypaint.git
cd charbelinho-mypaint
sudo scons install prefix=/opt/chrbelinho-mypaint
/opt/chrbelinho-mypaint/bin/mypaint

technics: Mypaint (+patch animation) + mouse + few minutes

A patch from Charbel Jacquin allow onion skinning function to mypaint, making it a really nice animation tool.
Patched git trunk sources (2010/03/05) (Update 2010/04/07):

Sources : mypaint-animation.0.8.2+git.tar.lzma (lzma/xz) or
mypaint-animation.0.8.2+git.7z (7zip).

Forum thread

demo (on Youtube). I made a copy of the Charbel Jacquin video (youtube channel) at another place for Chineses and Australians:

Keyboard Status Monitor (key-mon) is used for displaying key during video.

Installation (Debian/Ubuntu Linux):

sudo apt-get install g++ python-dev libglib2.0-dev python-numpy swig scons gettext python-protobuf protobuf-compiler
cd mypaint-animation.0.8.2+git/
scons prefix=/opt/mypaint-animation install

usage:
/opt/mypaint-animation/bin/mypaint

You can replace /opt/mypaint-animation by /usr or /usr/local and it will by in the standard path. or you can select any installation prefix you want.