CinePaint: Open source deep paint software

CinePaint is about to take a leap forward. There will be a new release of CinePaint on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows in January.

At the same time I’m working on making the CinePaint release ready there will be a Kickstarter campaign to provide the means to keep fresh CinePaint releases coming. That starts in two weeks.

Releasing CinePaint on Windows has been the #1 request I’ve received. If you have other CinePaint features requests or suggestions for the CinePaint Kickstarter campaign, let me know here or email me privately at robin@cinepaint.org.

Thanks everyone for your CinePaint support.

Robin

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Linux and CinePaint fans get together in Beverly Hills

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2011/12/9 – The Linux Movies Group and the CinePaint Users Group will be getting together for an informal  meeting at Peets Coffee, 258 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, from 7pm to 8pm on December 12th. CinePaint project manager Robin Rowe will be there. There’s no agenda except to talk about Linux as used in making major motion pictures, CinePaint and possibly field some questions about programming in C++.

Linux is used for visual effects and animation in virtually every blockbuster film released in the past ten years. It’s standard at Disney, DreamWorks Animation, ILM and Sony. CinePaint has been used in making the Harry Potter films and many other pictures.

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Latest CinePaint source available to build on Linux

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2011/11/29 – This Thanksgiving release of CinePaint fixes many build errors and provides a source tarball that can be downloaded  and built on Linux-based systems. CinePaint is a free open source deep paint program that’s an alternative to software like Adobe Photoshop. This release of CinePaint is numbered at 1.0 rather than 0.27 for administrative reasons. It is not significantly different from 0.26. It has known bugs. Mac and Windows versions not available at this time. Report user experiences in the comments section below or on the mailing list.

Download cinepaint-1.0.tgz (17mb)

./configure
make
sudo make install

Updates since this was posted…

• Sent announcements to CinePaint-Announce, CinePaint-Developers, CinePaint-Users and LinuxMovies-General.
• Website bug fix: Rewrote ShowPosts() in WordPress template functions.php so comments can be posted to site
• Added News, Release and Events categories in WordPress
• Posted email feedback from testers as comments here

Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force photo archive. Full size image.

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