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

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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.

Open source?

[penguinoid]

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

Re: Open source?

[Bing Tsher E]

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?"

Re:

[David Revoy]

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

Re:

[David Revoy]

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... [peppercarrot.com]

Re:

[weilawei]

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

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[RailRide]

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 tak