Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

Simon Legrand legrand.simon at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 12:58:18 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Monday 04 June 2012 Jun, Simon Legrand 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.
>
> That turns out to be something we need to spend some more time on :-) The
> lut docker I and Sven worked on yesterday turned up some dust in our code.
>
> > 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}
>
> For 5 or 6? I've built Krita on CentOS6 64 bit now -- only need to tar it
> up and make it available.
>

Unfortunately we may be moving to 6 in the future, but not any time soon.
You seem to be busy enough on the LUT docker now, so I may actually go
ahead and distribute the 32 bit version as a starter, with a disclaimer.



>
> > 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.
>
>
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> Boudewijn Rempt
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