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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Matt Jordan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Just yesterday I stumbled across http://www.synfig.com/. It's a bit > rough on the edges, but a very interesting vector animation app with > a resolution independet canvas and a timetrack working with absolute > time, not frames like flash does. So for anyone who wants to do > animation right now, it should be a much better choice. > > Anyone who would like to add animation to Inkscape should have a > look at it. > > (The only other open source animation app I'm aware of right now > is Ktoon, but I havn't checked it out yet) > > > Cheers, > Thorsten Wilms Thanks for the reply. I actually have synfig and have played with it a tad. I haven't gotten my head around how it works yet, so I'm not sure it'll work for me. The demo animation at the site, which I believe was called "Prologue," was nicely done, but very "vector tweeny." I appreciate that synfig takes that route to streamline production for a small, even one-person, staff. I'm just not sure I want to go that route yet. I forgot to mention that I'm on XP for the time being. I'm easing toward switching over to Linux, but there's some inertia there. At any rate, I can't try out Ktoon since it isn't available for Windows yet. One reason why I'm hoping to cobble something together that uses Inkscape is that I've learned how to get a really nice, natural looking ink line in Inkscape. No other software that I've tried, including demos of some of the proprietary stuff, seems to compare. Plus, the workspace in Inkscape, with the appropriate template overlay, looks like an animation board and lends itself well to things like panning a background image - assuming I can solve the precision issue. And for character animation, each stage can obviously be put on its on layer. I just downloaded a program called Monkey Jam to stitch the pngs together into scenes. I'll play with that some next week. Then, of course, I'd assemble the scenes and add sound and so on in a compositor. Anyway, I'm still interested in any ideas and suggestions, and I'll keep you all apprised of my progress in case I do something useful. Thanks again to all who responded. Matt Jordan

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Inkscape and animation
by Matt Jordan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi all, I've been using Inkscape for single-panel cartooning for a few months now and have really come to like the program for vector drawing (with a Wacom tablet). I'm now planning to do some cartoon animation and I was wondering if anybody has used Inkscape for this purpose as part of your workflow. I realize that Inkscape isn't set up to do animation in and of itself, but I could see it working really well in conjunction with a sound editor and a compositing tool, compositing a series of png outputs. But I wonder how to do certain things, like panning across a background for instance. I can certainly move an image across the page in Inkscape and output that as a series of pngs, but how would I make sure each incremental move is at the right speed and in the right direction, so the resulting animation is smooth? Has anybody out there done this sort of thing with Inkscape? Is there any sort of onion skinning plug-in or anything like that? Thanks, Matt Jordan PS - I joined the list officially and resent this to speed things up. My apologies if you end up seeing the original come through later.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Benjamin Huot 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Matt Jordan wrote: > > >> I'm now planning to do some cartoon animation and I was >> wondering if anybody has used Inkscape for this purpose as part of your >> workflow. I realize that Inkscape isn't set up to do animation in and >> of itself, but I could see it working really well in conjunction with a >> sound editor and a compositing tool, compositing a series of png >> outputs. >> > > Just yesterday I stumbled across http://www.synfig.com/. It's a bit > rough on the edges, but a very interesting vector animation app with > a resolution independet canvas and a timetrack working with absolute > time, not frames like flash does. So for anyone who wants to do > animation right now, it should be a much better choice. > > Anyone who would like to add animation to Inkscape should have a > look at it. > > (The only other open source animation app I'm aware of right now > is Ktoon, but I havn't checked it out yet) > > > Cheers, > Thorsten Wilms > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > I've tried both of those and they are not developed well enough to do much work in very comfortably. Ktoon last time I checked doesn't even have an undo feature and synfig didn't have a freehand tool for drawing and the interface was very confusing.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Cory Pollard 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I've used a bit of both apps. I really like synfig. Robert has given the open source community a massive gift. There is not as much develop on it as I would've first thought. If I knew anything about programming (and I intend to learn as soon as I get home to Aust) I would jump right in and help the guys....and inkscape to. I reakon if there were some full fledged forums for synfig, there would be MUCH more interest and possibly more develpment too. It's a real bitch to compile aswell.. As far as Ktoon is concerned, I found it similar to Toonboom, which I used for a bit back in my windows days. Not quite as advanced and documentation was very rare. Anyway that's my two bob.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Inkscape on Ubuntu
by Noah Spurrier 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I'm trying to install Inkscape 0.43 under Ubuntu using Aptitude. I get an error showing that certain dependencies are UNAVAILABLE: libgc1 (UNAVAILABLE) libglibmm-2.4-1 (>= 2.6.1) (UNAVAILABLE) libgtkmm-2.4-1 (UNAVAILABLE) libsigc++-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.2) (UNAVAILABLE) Any hints? Yours, Noah P.S. I have the following two lines at the beginning of my /etc/apt/source.list deb http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~wolfi/inkscape sarge/ deb-src http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~wolfi/inkscape sarge/ $ uname -a Linux alpha 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Apr 28 13:13:44 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.12-10-386 (buildd@...1923...) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8.1)) #1 Fri Apr 28 13:13:44 UTC 2006

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buggy layers dialog
by Cory Pollard 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I had 2 layers, both visable then I renamed them both to something different than layer 1. layer 2. Then I clicked the hide/unhide when i was on the opposite of each layer and then the naming convention returned to Layer 1 and Layer 2 I am using the may 27 autopackage build on ubuntu breezy badger. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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cropping
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi list, I need to crop this two elements but I can't do that. Could some good soul do dis for me ? I need to subtract the blank image from the globe image. My best regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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Website portuguese translation
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi list, I am here to ask wich person did the Portuguese translation of the website. There is kind of strange translation I didn't know if it is Portuguese from Portugal. I am brazilian and would like to contribute with this translation. Regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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Gradient from black to blue
by Paulo J. Matos 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi all, I'm having a problem with gradients. It seems I'm only able to create gradients from a color to white. I wish to create from black to blue. How can I do this? Is there any reference on gradients on the web? The tutorials don't seem to go through this and everything else about gradients seem to create <color> => white gradients. Any help is appreciated, Cheers, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm Computer and Software Engineering INESC-ID - SAT Group

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Color Pallete Docking
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi list, Could someone tell me how to dock the color pallete like you can see at: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/inkscape/inkscape_web/trunk/screensh… Regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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