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CinePaint and LinuxMovies.org Meeting on December 12th

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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CinePaint and Deep Paint Software Design

A discussion with Izo and other designer friends about deep paint software design

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) – 2011/12/9 – As we near our next release it’s time to consider what features future CinePaint versions may offer.  Whatever your painting tool of choice, whether that’s CinePaint, Photoshop, Aperture or something else, please take a moment to post to our comments section at the end of this story to share what you think a deep paint tool should do.

Back in September I had a dialog about the future direction of CinePaint and paint software with designer Ian Cylkowski, better know as Izo of Design by Izo. He also posted the question to his fellow Twitter design buddies as a design discussion on Google+.

Izo: For any FOSS image editor to compete properly with Photoshop, it needs, and this is just off the top of my head with my particular case usage Continue reading →

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CinePaint and The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

Excellent book by DC Comics illustrator Frederick E. Williams II  shows how to create comic book art using paint software and has clues for improving CinePaint

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2011/12/4 – DC Comics illustrator Frederieck E. Williams II uses many digital tools for creating comics including Adobe Photoshop and Google SketchUp. While artists like Williams must operate within the limits of what their tools are designed to do, CinePaint has the flexibility to have new features added through open source programming. This video from Williams gives an overview the process of using a master page template to create comic book pages for comic book publishers DC Comics, Dark Horse, Image Comics or Marvel.  This process is much the same no matter what tools you use. Williams has a free template in TIFF format that you can use in CinePaint.

The technique Williams teaches is to Continue reading →

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Planning CinePaint 1.1 Release

Plans underway for the next release of CinePaint open source deep paint tool

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2011/12/2 “Good to see that there is a new version of CinePaint even there are mainly bug fixes and not new features,” says a CinePaint user. “I would like to know if you plan to develop CinePaint in the future or if this was just a bug fix release and that´ s all? I would love it, having CinePaint further developed.”

Yes, working on the next release. Everybody agrees, I assume, with Eric Raymond that it’s best to release early and release often. What Eric doesn’t say is how to do that when you take over a large project like CinePaint that had never had a proper release before and has such a complex build system that even small changes can mean a whole day of building and testing. To make release early/often more feasible, changes are being made to simplify the CinePaint build system.

Planned for CinePaint 1.1 on 2011/12/25

1. Build all code using stricter C++ rules to try to catch more bugs at compile time.
2. Fix build configure bugs reported in 1.0 to exist on distros other than Ubuntu.
3. Fix version # bug reported in 1.0.
4. Research libpng-1.5 bug reported in 1.0.
5. Test with Valgrind for memory leak reported in 1.0.
6. Test CinePaint on Lubuntu as in 1.0 and add testing for CentOS and FreeBSD.
7. Remove ScriptFu and other interpreter plug-ins. Python and Perl are too difficult to support. Researching adding Squirrel or JavaSccript.
8. Add a user registration dialog so we have a better idea who’s using CinePaint.
9. Debian deb

The next CinePaint release is expected  sometime before Christmas. Comments welcome.

Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy. The Gulf of Oman, Dec. 30, 2000 — USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her battle group sail in the waters of the Gulf of Oman after spending three months in the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. U.S Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Gabriel Wilson (photo # 001230-N-0147W-002).

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