Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Simon Legrand]

Yes it looks like Krita has a really solid group of amazing artists guiding
it. I am hoping that myself and a growing number a VFX artists will soon
help you with bug reports, suggestions and even code contributions. If my
evil plan comes to fruition. :)

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh and I almost forgot the possibility for a rather non-linear
>>>> workflow. Filter layers, layer groups and a lot of the layer management
>>>> features are great.
>>>>
>>>> As VFX artists and TDs the more we can do non-linearly the happier we
>>>> are. The hard thing about what we do isn't creating cool 3D things, it's
>>>> implementing the Director's changes over and over again. For this we need
>>>> to 'bake' as little as possible of what we do. Hence the popular workflows
>>>> of packages like Nuke and Houdini and why packages like 3dsMax and After
>>>> Effects aren't really used in large studios.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Interesting, never thought about it that way. I remember the Krita
>>> meeting where we discussed these things e.g. to using nodes instead of
>>> layers. The conclusion was that great artists would get it right the first
>>> time.
>>>
>>
>> Lol. Wow. Hmmmyeah, that kind of statement would get you shot where I
>> come from. :)
>>
>>
>
> That's the point, we simply don't have that background. I'm not an artist,
> so I usually depend on artists to tell me what is good or bad. It took a
> lot of time to build up a group of artists that give feedback (I was
> hacking on Krita for years before meeting the first artist). Until now we
> didn't have input from anybody with visual effects experience.
>
> I think over the last two years or so Krita's workflow has improved a lot
> based on the feedback that we got back from the artist. The direction of
> the development highly depends on the feedback that we get and so far that
> was mostly from non-vfx people. Feel free to make an impact :)
>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The most successful aspect of it is that it seemed to be able to deal
>>>>> with pretty large images at high bit depth natively. The next thing was the
>>>>> familiar UI. People in my industry feel at home with QT as most of our
>>>>> vendors use it. Also Krita has a photoshop-esque design that made everyone
>>>>> feel comfortable. But it was the brush engine got the biggest wows.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course it was merely a preliminary demo to see if artists were
>>>>> willing to put a bit of a 'bump' in their workflow (by using Krita instead
>>>>> of photoshop) for the greater good. Most were and by next week I have to
>>>>> have a 64bit version installed in our package manager. {Gulp}
>>>>>
>>>>> The best thing about it was that even artists with a windows machine
>>>>> and potatoshop installed in addition to their Linux box showed a definite
>>>>> interest in testing Krita. I was expecting to only win over the poor sods
>>>>> who only have access to Gimp, but it seemed to win over a lot more people
>>>>> than I expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> Photoshop has a lot of bells and whistles that we don't need in VFX,
>>>>> if Krita focuses on performance and scalability, it will take photoshop's
>>>>> cake in VFX quite easily I believe.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Sven Langkamp <
>>>>> sven.langkamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  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".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What feature was that? What were the favorites?
>>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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