Fedeylins 2 book cover

WRITTEN_BY David REVOY - - 7 comments
Here is the second book cover artwork done for the publisher Gründ Romans : Fedeylin book cover t.2 , a book written by Nadia Coste Gimp-painter 2.6 , Mypaint +Git , CMYKTools. _(Note: Book is published in french only for the moment.) _ ![photo1 fedeylins t2 aux bords du mal david](data/images/blog/2011/10/photo1_fedeylins-t2_aux-bords-du-mal_davidrevoy.jpg) ![photo2 fedeylins t2 aux bords du mal david](data/images/blog/2011/10/photo2_fedeylins-t2_aux-bords-du-mal_davidrevoy.jpg) **links ( fr )** : First book cover on this blog : [Fedeylin T.1, fantasy book cover](http://www.davidrevoy.com/?article64/) Nadia 's blog : Fedeylins Official website : Publisher :

Mental Models for GIMP : Interview debriefing

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I was honored to be 'webcam-interviewed' today by Tobias Ehnifrom the MMG ( MentalModels for GIMP ), a special development project from openusability , a non-profitorganisation who target a better usability for a lot of Free/Libreand Open Source Software (FLOSS). The target is of course GimpUi redesign for 2.8.

I was really happy to can share with a professional of usabilitymy workflow, and also show my favorite feature and also painfullmoment while using the Gimp to do my digital painting job. Iended-up with pretty similar critic as the one I said during theKrita sprint in may2011 . Tobias took a long time to analysis my actions, andunderstand my workflow and daily task I do with Gimp. Many thanksto him for his patience and professionalism.

This article is mainly a block of my various notes made beforeand after the interview. I hope they can be usefull for the MentalModels for GIMP project and also help the development of otherdigital painting software. 

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Video timelapse : Kynitia

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[youtube]NUUUiMe_SIE[/youtube] _A video of a personalpainting time lapse representing my actual professional workflow:_ B&W sketching, Color speedpainting then detailing using Mypaint and finalize the artwork in Gimp._ **Wip pictures :** [![01 thumbnail kinytia ](data/images/blog/2011/10/01_thumbnail-kinytia_revoy.jpg)](data/images/blog/2011/10/01_thumbnail-kinytia_revoy.jpg "kinytia :Thumbnail sketch" ) [![02 speedpainting kinytia ](data/images/blog/2011/10/02_speedpainting-kinytia_revoy.jpg)](data/images/blog/2011/10/02_speedpainting-kinytia_revoy.jpg "kinytia : speedpainting" ) [![03 final kinytia ](data/images/blog/2011/10/03_final-kinytia_revoy.jpg)](data/images/blog/2011/10/03_final-kinytia_revoy.jpg "kinytia : final" ) "Kinitya" material are under[a licenseCC-By-Sa](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

What come next after Gimp-painter 2.6 ?

WRITTEN_BY David REVOY - - 20 comments
 

A blog post about my actual test with Gimp-painter 2.6 , and testing the future alternative : 2.7.2 Gimp-painter discontinued , or 2.7+ Git official Gimp with a lake of the features who interest me.

 It's almost 3 years now I use daily for my freelance work Gimp-painter 2.6 mainly. And because I had to stick with this particular fork for making my artwork , I always kept distant from the Gimp developpement , mainly because all the features I enjoyed in this fork were not ported to 2.7x .

But lastly, I discovered I could keep my old Gimp-painter 2.6 installed and run in parallel other build of sources codes. Thanks to this tutorial for explaining me the guidelines of compiling Gimp sources codes in another folder. So, now I can test last Gimp(s).  This post show some of the early things I found interesting and other not of my first experience with it.

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Mypaint screenshots; Many thanks !

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[Click on the picture to access the Mypaint official webpage.](http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=530) Many thanks to all the contributors to my previous call for Mypaint screenshots. Finally, it endend-up with more than 150 screenshots pictures from all around the world, with many various systems and artworks style. This website update is a success !

Trophy hunting

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![](data/images/blog/2011/08/chat-etoile-vdm_davidrevoy.jpg) This small webcomic, made with Mypaint and Gimp on Linux went viral on Internet, reaching millions of views! it was submited for an article on the French version of [www.fmylife.com](http://www.fmylife.com/ "http://www.fmylife.com/" ) named here [www.viedemerde.fr](http://www.viedemerde.fr/) > " Today, proud of him, my cat brought his latest trophy hunting in the house. Except that it was not a mouse, but a starfish ... I live 10 km from the beach. F\*\*\*mylife \-\- by ILoveStupidCats. - **Original post here :** - **Source :** [http://sta.sh/01ivuxa4jo12 ](http://sta.sh/01ivuxa4jo12 "http://sta.sh/01ivuxa4jo12" )( Hi-res open-raster file, layered, inside a zip archive )

Krita kra file thumbnailer for Gnome 2

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Warning :the method presented in this article are too old to be applied now ( maybe work on Mate ? ) . Use this information at your own risk.

I hacked this morning the thumbnailer distribued with the openraster librarie to work with the Krita native *.kra files. I tested this on Linux Mint 9 and 10 ( so I presume it will works on Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick ). Btw, I don't know how the new Ubuntu 11.04 would handle it ( please use comments if you tested it with a success ). I redistribute it under the GNU GPL license V3 ( file inside ), same as the original libora thumbnailer.

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Dreams of a Geisha

WRITTEN_BY David REVOY - - 7 comments
[youtube]u_mW7ykdIH4[/youtube] _Video trailer for Dreams of a Geisha, Green Sauce Games_ ## About [Dreams of a Geisha](http://www.greensaucegames.com/wp/) is a puzzles/match 3 game produced by [Green Sauce Games](http://www.greensaucegames.com/wp/?page_id=7). I worked as a digital painter for the backgrounds, and as graphist for some of the graphical elements ( icons , graphic user interface, etc... ) game. I wasn't alone ; a lot of graphism were also done by other talentuous artist you can find in the credit of the game. The game is sold on [Big Fish here](http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/12814/dreams-of-a-geisha/index.html) and it's was a real pleasure to see it ranked number 1 few time after his release. [![dream of a geisha logo](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_logo.jpg)](http://www.greensaucegames.com/wp/?page_id=7) ## Concept and illustrations : I'm posting here reduced thumbnail with permission: ![dream of a geisha wip1 screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_wip1-screens.jpg) _Composition rough, for the snow landscape. Proposition '3' was accepted._ ![dream of a geisha wip2 screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_wip2-screens.jpg) _I use 3D low polygon elements I speedly modeled, with paint-over on them ( [Blend&Paint](http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article59/) technic )_ ![dream of a geisha wip3 screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_wip3-screens.jpg) _Painted 3D_ ![dream of a geisha wip4 screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_wip4-screens.jpg) _With the full paint-over_ ![dream of a geisha 4seasons screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_4seasons-screens.jpg) _A sample of the background artwork_ ![dream of a geisha wip5 screens](data/images/blog/2011/06/dream-of-a-geisha_wip5-screens.jpg) _Night versions_ If you are interested by it; you can purchase the video game here :