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[youtube]sBHBbgYZLTc[/youtube]
_official teaser video_
**Heroes from the Past: Joan of Arc** is a puzzles/match 3 game produced by **Green Sauce Games**.
My work in this project was mainly to produce some of the games backgrounds for levels ( night and day version ) , startup screens ( Joan with the flag ) and a cinematic with still picture as a game intro. The game contain epic landscapes with high colors and details, castles and waterfalls with various ambiants.
_main start screen ; each elements painted are cut on separate layers to be animated in game_
_Cut-out scene : speed-paintings to make mini story cinematic during the game. _
_Background : a large amount of landscape , night and day version are in the game ; they appear once you complete the puzzle. _
I used the same technic as I did on the previous video game with the team :[Dreams of a Geisha ( blog post with makingof step )](http://www.davidrevoy.com/article81/artwork-for-dreams-of-a-geisha-green-sauce-games "Dreams of a Geisha \( blog post \)" ).
By the way , I wasn't alone on the graphic design part of the team : a lot of other Gfx you can see on the video ( as the village construction, icons , Fx and game GUI ) were done by other talentuous artists. You can find their name in the credit of the game or by contacting [Green Sauce Games](http://www.greensaucegames.com/ "Green Sauce Games" ).
**Update :**
_Note : N°1 ! Congrats to Green Sauce Games dev and artists for this success !_
The game is actually [ready to download on Big Fish here](http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/21693/heroes-from-the-past-joan-of-arc/index.html "ready to download on Big Fish here" ) ( for Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows and Mac.)
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( note : french version : [p1](data/images/blog/2013/02/2013-02-26_Le-petit-chaperon-rouge-part1_david-revoy.jpg), [p2](data/images/blog/2013/02/2013-02-26_Le-petit-chaperon-rouge-part2_david-revoy.jpg). )
This is a personnal project of illustrating an early version of the Little Red Riding Hood , told by French peasants since the 10th century, featuring cannibalism, blood, nudity and vulgar words ... A surprising version.
So I decided to sample this old oral tradition version named commonly 'version of the Nivernais' with modernised version from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1812 ) and Charles Perrault ( 1698 ).
To quote [english Wikipedia page about ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood "english Wikipedia page about this" )older versions : _"The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there."_
About the making of it ; my challenge during last christmass holidays was to get done a project 'unplugged' : with only a ballpen and a sketchbook , to take holliday far from computer. It was really pleasant. Digital coloring and painting were done later in Krita as well as text in Scribus on Linux Mint KDE 14.
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I love painting big scene where a lot of things happen. Just a problem with it ; it takes a lot of time.
I tried on this one to keep my paint stroke minimal to not spend too much time.
Painted with Krita
larger resolution on my deviantArt :
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This resources is outdated and unmaintained : it won't work with recent version of Krita. [Check the download category](http://www.davidrevoy.com/categorie12/download "Krita" ) to find the most recent brushes.
zoom on Krita preset docker with brushkit V2.1
_[ V2.1 update for adding texture pack for 2.7pre-alpha , V2 published the 14 January 2013 ]_
[ This article is an update of the old V1 preset for Krita , published in June, 2012 ]_
I like to take care of my brush preset.
As a proverb in France say ; "Un bon artisan prends soin de ses outils" ( can be roughly translated by "a good worker take care of his tools" ).
So, here is the new pack of my presets ( reworked, cleaned links, cleaned dependencies , new icons ! ... what a work ... ) compatible **with the upcoming Krita 2.6 and the dev version of course**.
I also added presets for the Texture option available in Krita 2.7 (dev) and later.
## Content of the brushkit
Example based on picture, scrap, sketches,test found on my disk.
I pasted on the top the brush used to give you an idea of the rendering.
_My inking, sketching and filling tools_
_A smudgy preset mixing nicely color with a sort of bristle simulation_
_My speedpainting tools : dry and textured, layering value in opacity_
_A mix of preset ; a dulling brush with soft bristles, splatters textures and experimental brush._
_Wet techniques : using preset based on the mixbrush engine_
_Various demo of 'ready-made' pattern : clouds, grass, herbs ... I tend to less and less use this type of brush._
_Experimental brush, splatters and airbrus _
_A sample preview of the smearing/smudging presets : Various textures_
_Miscellaneous presets : A tubular pen for drawing with geometric shapes, a clone brush tool preset ready to use, and a airbrush in dodge blending mode, for speed highlights and Fx_
_additional preview for the extra pack of textured brush for 2.7_
My preset don't use all 'brush-engines' proposed by Krita, only the one useful for my workflow and own preference.
## Download :
**V2.1 Core preset :**
for Krita 2.6 and later ( may work in 2.5 ... not tested ):
[2013-01-14_deevad-kit-Krita_v2.tar.gz](data/documents/2013-01-14_deevad-kit-Krita_v2.tar.gz) 4.3MB
[picture preview](http://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2013/01/krita-brushkitv2/deevad-krita-kit_v2_01.jpg "picture preview" )
** \+ Additional textured preset ( Green family ) :**
for Krita 2.7 and later _ ( a pack of \*.kpp files )
[2013-01-26_deevad_brushkit-additionnal-texture.tar.gz](data/documents/2013-01-26_deevad_brushkit-additionnal-texture.tar.gz)
**Texture pack :** 25 PNG for the pattern folder :
already in 2.7pre-alpha , git master
[2013-01-26_Krita_texture-pack1.tar.gz](data/documents/2013-01-26_Krita_texture-pack1.tar.gz)
**Old V1 preset , less fancy** ( but does the job ) for Krita 2.5, 2.4 and 2.3 and later
[2012-06-04_deevad-krita_preset-v1a_for-2.5a.tar.gz](data/documents/2012-06-04_deevad-krita_preset-v1a_for-2.5a.tar.gz)
[picture preview](http://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2012/06/krita-deevadpreset_v1a.jpg "picture preview" )
## Install :
The tar.gz ( to download ) contain 2 folders :
brush and paintoppreset
you have the same preference folder on Krita ( on Linux : ~/.kde/share/apps/krita )
So, just extract them , to make brush in brush and paintoppreset in paintoppreset as in the picture bellow :
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_folder view : click to enlarge_
Uninstall notes : Brush have deevad\_ as filename prefix , you can easily identify them in your folders and erase them manually.
**Note for texture pack :** unpack the \*.kpp inside the archive in the 'paintoppreset' folder of your ~/.kde/share/apps/krita
## License:
This brush , icons and presets are released **CC-0 / public domain**
Images and text in this article are **CC-By-Sa **
"www.davidrevoy.com "
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Brushkit V2 in Krita dev version ( 2.7pre-alpha 14-01-2013 )
_(click to enlarge_)
