Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Simon Legrand]

It's easy to promote a good package. :)
The true heroes are the guys who have stuck by Krita through thick and thin
until it became this good!

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Ramón Miranda <mirandagraphic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow, really good news! it is exciting how Digital Domain London is
> receiving Krita. and the questions are really interesting too showing new
> ideas to be implemented in future.
> Thanks to Krita team for their efforts and also Simon Legrand to be a
> brave Krita promoter ;)
>
>
> 2012/6/4 Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
>
>> On Monday 04 June 2012 Jun, Simon Legrand 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".
>>
>> Yay!
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I'll update my build environment to centos6 and check it out.
>>
>> > 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)
>>
>> I need to get back to you about that because I'm not yet sure of the set
>> of requirements.
>>
>> > 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/ )
>>
>> We actually had this at one point, but then decided that hugin was a much
>> more complete solution -- and we'd never be able to keep up with them. I'm
>> sure we could try to figure out workflow improvements.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> We've had scripting in a number of guises, all with varying amounts of
>> incompleteness. Before we start working on scripting again, we'd need to
>> really know what it needed in practice.
>>
>> What we had could, at one point, do basic image manipulation -- filter,
>> paint, do some conversions from Python, Javascript and Ruby. That is
>> actually easy to resurrect, but since we had no users for it, it was
>> allowed to bitrot.
>>
>> For writing image filters, we've got OpenShiva, which is really easy to
>> use.
>>
>> Krita itself is written in C++, so unlike Python-based tools like
>> Blender, opening up all of Krita's api's to Python takes quite a bit of
>> work, and doing it right this time takes thinking :-)
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> No... Not at all, and the chances are slim that we'd support, say,
>> photoshop or gimp filters, at least not without some serious sponsorship to
>> make it real.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Right :-)
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> No -- but we have a project this summer that will create a wraparound
>> canvas for easy texture painting. Creating a plugin like this isn't hard
>> either, it just needs some time.
>>
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Ok :-).
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> /me feels is purring like a cat.
>>
>> --
>> Boudewijn Rempt
>> http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org,
>> http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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