Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Sven Langkamp]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Last Friday I ran a Krita demo at Digital Domain London which went
> amazingly well.
> The feedback from the artists was along the lines of: "Wow. I didn't
> realise it was going to be THAT good".
> It is possible that ourselves (DD london) and many others will be moving
> to centos6 in the near future. Autodesk is providing support for Maya 2013
> only for Centos6 and redhat6 and up now. So if we make sure the latest and
> greatest Krita is in the centos6 repos, it will be super easy for
> sys-admins to get it installed. Those are KDE4 distros so I think life will
> be easier.
>
> The main questions I got from texture artists, matte painters and compers
> were as follows:
>
> Q-Can we toggle the LUT display?
> A- Yes in the preferences. (I put in a request on this list today to make
> it a dockable tool)
>
> Q- Are there any automatic HDRI panorama creation tools
> A- No, there are other applications for this. (However the Krita project
> might be able to leverage other open source projects to implement something
> like this. http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ )
>
> Q- Does Krita have a scripting language, command line interface or python
> api?
> A- I replied that I was not sure. I knew Krita had a scripting feature in
> previous version but I cannot find it in 2.4. Actions are supported so that
> can replace (partly) this function. I was not sure about any sort of python
> api or anything like this. So I replied that I was going to ask you guys.
>
> Q- Does Krita support 3rd party filter/plugin formats?
> A- I don't know. I will ask the team what kind of filter format Krita
> supports.
>
> Q- Does Krita do 3D painting?
> A- No. Krita is not made to replace Mari. It is mainly a photoshop
> replacement on Linux to fill the '2D painting' gap our industry has been
> suffering from for years.
>
> Q- Is there an automatic texture tiling tool similar to gimp's texturize<http://gimp-texturize.sourceforge.net/>
> ?
> A- Not that I know of, I will ask the Krita team.
>
> Q- Can Krita import frame sequences?
> A- Not right now. It could be an interesting Option to add. I will talk to
> the team about it.
>
> All of our Artists and TDs were very impressed. They would like to say a
> big thank you to the Krita team for moving in to this territory and have
> pledged to help you trouble-shoot, improve and push Krita forward with
> useful feedback and bug reports, all of which will be going through myself.
>

Has been quite some time since the demo. I haven't heard any feedback so
far. How it did work out?
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