Video Tutorial : Digital Watercolor
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Here is a link to the video on Vimeo.
I wanted to offer in this special evening (christmass) a little gift , for your help and your support around Sintel and Chaos&Evolutions during this year 2010 and for all the comments I received on my blog. Thanks again , and here is a timelapse commented of my watercolor technic with Mypaint and Gimp-painter.
And the final picture :
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Inspiring..
Thanks
Incredible this beautiful work. It is very similar to a real watercolor. Nice sound too. MyPaint is a wonderful program. This video is very informative, a great gift to us. Thanks!!!
Very instructive! I will use some of your tips ;)
Thanks for the gift!
Merry Chrismas David
Great work ;)
As usual : CA ENVOIE DU STEAK ! :-D
Beautiful work David, Sintel looks great when you draw her in 2D. I love the feel of the watercolor. very realistic result. i have to try this technique, maybe when i finish my last piece. again, good work.
by the way, your french voice is not so bad, i heared you on the Viewconference. XDDD lets give it a try
Thanks all !
@Ramon: Hi friend :) Thanks for the encouragement about the english "voice over" , I'm still a bit not confident about , but for sure I need to give it another try and buy a better microphone.
Very nice workflow. Tutorial was quick and to the point and the results were very good. I have to agree with Ramon, your voice is just fine. In fact I think by adding your comments into these tutorials, you can convey your methods even more.
Thanks again and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
Steve
Thanks a lot Steven,
This time for sure I will think to purchase a microphone and do soon a first test with another little tutorial :)
Hi David,
I know you mentioned you used GTK RECORD MY DESKTOP how long did it take to convert (encode the screen recording) tutorial or is there an option to speed this process up I have done a 2 min quick video and its taking about 6/7 Min's before I can watch it back. P.S I have a fast computer system. Also I know you are an artists but I would love to see quick tut on how you use Blender to edit your videos for speed painting / time lapses.
Thanks in advance Steven
Google gave me this http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/185442905/Chaos+%26+Evolutions?tab=summary when searching for Blender.org page Chaos dvd O.o
btw : Nice timelapse!
@Steven Proctor : I copy you the full user manual I created for no-problem screen recording with linux ; this part is extracted from Chaos&Evolution DVD ; I will try to write a cleaner way all this info soon in a dedicated article ; I hope you will find your happiness with this source ;)
#################
General setting for Chaos & Evolutions recording and encoding :
Example on Cendrea, a digital painting.
1) Video Screen capture with Recordmydesktop
Softwares :
Gtkrecordmydesktop
recordmydesktop
Setting :
Video Quality 100%
Frames Per Second 12
Encode On the Fly Ok
Zero Compression Ok
Sound Channel 1
Frequency 44100
Device pulse
Display $DISPLAY
Mit-Shm extension OK
Include Windows Dec. Ok
Tooltips OK
Reset Capture Area OK
Extra Option : -buffer-size 16384
Example :
Cendrea.ogv = 245 MB , 1h19
2) First conversion video before video editing with mencoder
objectif : doing fast editing with kdenlive.
Softwares :
Mencoder
Terminal
Setting :
#!/bin/bash
mkdir converted
for ogvmovie in *.ogv ; do
frameoutput=${ogvmovie/.ogv/.avi}
echo ==============================================
echo ==== Processing $ogvmovie ====
echo ==============================================
mencoder $ogvmovie -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=2 -o converted/$frameoutput
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo the movie clip $ogvmovie was well exported to converted/$frameoutput
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
done
echo Job list finished
Example :
Cendrea.avi = 195.4 MB , 1h19
3) Video editing : Kdenlive 4.6
objectif : cropping / cuting / titles / rich editing the video / adding audio
Softwares:
Kdenlive
Melt
Ffmpeg
Input setting :
Size : 1440 x 896 ( video size )
Frame rate 25 / 1
Pixel aspect ratio 1 / 1
Display aspect ratio 161 / 100
Output setting (render) : XVID ( old )
Extension avi
Parameters :
acodec=libmp3lame ab=128k ar=44100 vcodec=libxvid minrate=0 b=4000k aspect=%dar mbd=2 trellis=1 mv4=1 r=25
Example :
Cendrea-edited-with-audio.avi = 1Go , 38 min
Output setting (render) : MP4 >ok
Extension mp4
Parameters :
f=mp4 acodec=libmp3lame ab=128k ar=44100 vcodec=mpeg4 minrate=0 b=6000k aspect=%dar mbd=2 trellis=1 mv4=1 r=25
Example :
Cendrea-edited-with-audio.avi = 1Go , 38 min
4) OGV converting :
objectif : lower the size / made HTML5 video embeded browser / publish using an Open Source Codec.
Softwares :
ffmpeg2theora
Terminal
#!/bin/bash
mkdir converted
for ogvmovie in *.avi ; do
echo ==============================================
echo ==== Processing $ogvmovie ====
echo ==============================================
ffmpeg2theora -v 10 $ogvmovie
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo the movie clip $ogvmovie was well converted to THEORA OGG
echo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
done
echo Job list finished
Example
10_WIP_cendrea.ogv : 263 MB ; 38 min
around 7.5MB / minute
DVD content : 1200 min
9000 Mo = 9 Go
@Numarul7 : Thanks for the timelapse :) As the DVD is in Creative Commons - By ( David REVOY/ Blender Foundation ) this torrent is totally legal, and I'm even happy if their is 6 seeders to share the huge 8Go of content... not easy !
Just for those who want to pay the DVD, remember the money goes to the Blender Foundation and a little part for me each 1000 DVD sold :) It always helps. But I'm always happy to see interest around my Dvd. I'm heaven a bit curious why I haven't seen it yet all the content posted by a user on Youtubes or Vimeo. I shall may be do it myself with the agreement of the Blender Foundation:)
Hi David,
Just to say thank you so much for your quick response and setting info greatly appreciated P.S I'm Gingnut from CG Society :) I hope soon I have some way to give back to the community.
I will continue to watch your tutorials and be inspired by your images ;)
Steven
@Steven : Thanks :) and cool for your message on CGtalk ;)
Just fabulous!
the watercolor render is like a real one.
I've just seen your two "time-lapse way of working" and I'm very impressive.
You master your subject, no doubt on it !
...et le "Lezard", c'est juste un truc de ouf ! Chapo !
Merci Stéphane :)
It would be possible to convert these drawings of MyPaint and Gimp for cmyk mode in Krita ? I have not seen you illustrating in Krita. Cmyk mode is not reliable in this software or is it merely a matter of preference? Thanks David.
Hi Lisa,
Yes, Krita and CMYKTool are two solution for CMYK convertion. I didn't get the time to test it in depht the CMYK in Krita. The main reason is here I still use my licence of Adobe Photoshop CS2 running with Wine to do a conversion at the end, and some color correction for the printing. This allow me a 100% compatibility with the Adobe design/graphic workflow of my clients.
Excellente vidéo !
tite question sur Mypaint : Est t'il possible de se créer une palette de couleurs pour la dernière version de myPaint? ( j'ai fait des recherches et je suis tombé sur l'Iportnov branch developement qui semble me correspondre à ce dont j'ai besoin mais j'ai l'impression que ça marche plus sur le 0.9).
@MrMango : Oui, le code de la palette de la version de Iportnov n'a pas été porté dans le tronc principale de développement ( pour des raisons de mauvaise ergonomie et de propreté du code, il me semble ) et pour l'instant aucune fonctionnalité similaire à l'horizon.
Hi David. Great Job.
Only one question. In witch website is disponible the "Sketch brush pack"? I see that you use in various videos
@Itzcuauhtli :Thanks ! The 'sketch' brush pack was a experimental group I produced at this time to create a good set of pencils and erasers.
Now, all this brush and erasers are merged in the 2 first row of my brush kit , you can download it here : http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article55/mypaint-v4-brushkit">http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article55/mypaint-v4-brushkit.
I wish you good painting time with Mypaint ;)
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@evilglass : Weird .... I just had access to https://vimeo.com/18157214 , and the embed code works also on the page.... where are you located ? maybe an error on Vimeo side ?
Magnificent detailing on this video!!! And wonderful blog post. Thanks for sharing.
A very Guided tutorial. To the point instruction. Thanks dude for all of your hard work.
I find this video tutorial very interesting and creative indeed
Really it's effective tutorial for water color paint. I will try it in my work. Thanks
Your link works, but as for the embed, my browser tells me:
> Loading mixed (insecure) display content “http://player.vimeo.com/video/18157214?color=ff9933” on a secure page 2 video-tutorial-digital-watercolor-with-mypaint-and-gimp
> https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content
Thanks! The previous code was trying to embed the video inside my blog, like a media. So, my certificate was mixed with their (Vimeo) certificate. Mozilla was right to tell the content was mixed. I fixed the page by only making a html link to the video. I hope it will fix the issue. Thanks for reporting!
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