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David Revoy Makes Open Source Art With Open Source Tools (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the culture-and-technology-meet-and-embrace-each-other dept.

This is our second video excerpt from Erik Moeller's PassionateVoices.org. In this one, Erik talks to professional artist Devid Revoy, of Toulouse, France. David distributes his art under an open source license, and he uses open source tools (especially Krita) to make it. Here's a twist for you: if you like David's webcomic, Pepper & Carrot, you can become a patron, just like Catherine de' Medici in the 16th century. And, of course, just like the people who looked at art sponsored by Catherine but did not support it financially, you are free to simply enjoy David's work. To learn more about David, his art, his business model, and the tools he uses to make his art, go to Passionate Voices Episode 2: David Revoy. That's where you'll find Erik's full-length interview with David, along with a transcript of that interview.

13 comments

  1. Open source? by penguinoid · · Score: 1

    And here I thought you didn't have to compile art from source code. Maybe I should have taken that art class.

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    1. Re: Open source? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      I was going to comment "So we can make changes to his art and redistribute it? Maybe even send our improved version back to him?"

    2. Re: Open source? by davidrevoy · · Score: 1

      Yes, exactly. Commercial usage, redistribution and also derivation are allowed for my webcomic. You can check the sources here : http://www.peppercarrot.com/en...

    3. Re:Open source? by davidrevoy · · Score: 2

      And here I thought you didn't have to compile art from source code. Maybe I should have taken that art class.

      My webcomic has a Renderfarm. I build all the page ( for Print and for Web ) from the source graphics ( Krita files, hi-res multi-layered ) + the sources translation files ( SVG vector from a Git repository ). Here is the link to the sources and links to Github projects to contribute : http://www.peppercarrot.com/en...

    4. Re:Open source? by weilawei · · Score: 1

      I'm not much for following webcomics these days, but you're quite skilled. Keep up the good work, and good luck!

    5. Re: Open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not a comic fan in general, but you are a very talented artist!

    6. Re: Open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're a hero, dude. Keep doing the good work!

    7. Re:Open source? by RailRide · · Score: 1

      Coincidentally, I had been taking a close look at Krita on and off (the last "on" being a week or so ago) after hearing that someone is working on adding frame-by-frame animation functionality to the application.

      I ran across P&C while scoping out the application's capabilities (in part via your YouTube channel) and now I'm tempted to try out this application before the animation capabilities are added in. And now it gets spotlighted in /.

      Now if I only knew how to color well enough to actually take advantage of Krita's capabilities :D...

      As for doing artwork with OSS, I've used Inkscape for digital inking for a couple of years now, and have given MyPaint enough playtime to produce one of my few completely digital pics (cell-shaded w/o backdrop), which is more than I can say for the apps I actually paid for (Sketchbook Pro 2011 and Clip Studio Paint 5), for some inexplicable reason.

      ---PCJ

    8. Re:Open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Getting comfortable with the program, customizing shortcuts and tweaking/creating brushes would probably be a good idea, so you have less to learn/get used to when animation hits. Krita is incredibly good, though; hope you have fun with it.

  2. Why doesn't my SlashDot username work on video? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  3. Re:Fucking dumb anime bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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