David REVOY - French freelance digital artist

wednesday 08 february 2012
category : Software & Hardware

Linux Mint 12 for digital painter : auto-install-all script

If you follow my blog, you probably remember my long install notes to make a Linux Mint 11 for digital painting.

This time, Nathaniel Schultz published on his blog an epic masterpiece script to install all automatically :

How it works :

First, install a classic Linux Mint 12 ( here DVD, 64bit )
After the install , at the login screen use the top-right icon on the frame to login into the 'Mate' desktop environment
Install if necessary restricted driver for your Gfx card ( pop-up invite you ) , then reboot.
When all this is done , download and execute the script provided by Nathaniel inside a terminal ( link under )
Just let the script work, give your password or 'y' on request from time to time , take your time ; it took around 2 hours here
Done ! enjoy

Result :

Gimp-painter patched Gimp 2.7 beta ppa
Krita Git
Blender ppa
Mypaint ppa
*.ora and *.xcf thumbnails
... other utililities , ready menus and config ...etc....

✦ Download the script and read the full article here ✦

His article also explain each part of the instalation for those who want to add only a single component manually.

Many thanks for this amazing resources Nathaniel :-) Don't hesistate to test it , and give feedback to him. I tested it several time last days and It's now the system installed on my laptop , perfect to fly to the Mango open movie project :D

I un-activated the comment here, please comment, give feedback or share your opinion directly on Nathaniel's blog.

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sunday 15 january 2012
category : Artworks
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Wikipedia contribution fan-art : Boromir - Lotr

A a personnal fan-art speed-painting ( 2h30 , full Krita 2.4 beta ) descripting a character inspired from the depiction of 'Boromir' , a fictive character created by Tolkien in the famous and classic book trilogy fantasy 'The Lord of the Ring' (Lotr ). The recent cinema adaptation didn't give justice to this character in my opinion ; the actor wasn't really 'like' the description of Tolkien. So, I tryed to make 'mine'.

It's also done to help the maintainer of the Lotr Wikipedia team.

( Link on Wikimedia : ( full res hosted ) : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boromir.png ) ( more infos for helping on the full version of this article )

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monday 09 january 2012
category : Software & Hardware
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Kubuntu 11.10 for digital painting

This is a full article about my newer desktop environment, and technology I use. Click on the "Read full page version" to access the full article.

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wednesday 04 january 2012
category : Artworks
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Happy New Year 2012

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~ Happy Surrealistic New Year 2012 ~

Krita / Mypaint

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saturday 24 december 2011
category : Sketchbook
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Merry Christmas 2011

I wish to all my visitors, clients, open-source enthusiast, friends and family a Merry Christmas 2011

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sunday 11 december 2011
category : Software & Hardware
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Textured brush in FLOSS digital-painting

This article decrypt and give usage example of textured brushes in digital painting with free / libre open sources software ( FLOSS ). All the visuals of this article are painted with the (abandoned fork) Gimp-painter 2.6 . This is still actually the only FLOSS application able to do this powerful feature for digital painters and 3D artist.

I target mainly this to help the developers of Krita and illustrate my wish on the bug report.

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sunday 27 november 2011
category : Artworks
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Concept for Mango project : future Amsterdam

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An early concept art participation for the project Mango, the 4th movie of the Blender Foundation. This one will happen on a futuristic version of Amsterdam. This artwork is a paint-over from an original photo under found on Wikimedia Commons ( watermark on the picture for additional infos ). CC licenses rocks ! I get fun with many little details.

original :

links :

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wednesday 23 november 2011
category : Various news
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Capitole du Libre 2011 : free french workshop and conference

I'm very happy this time to not have to cross the Europe by plane to go to an interesting meeting around the open-source, but take only my bicycle. Great ! 'Capitole du Libre' will happen this week-end (saturday/sunday) at the ENSEEIHT ^(fr)in Toulouse ^(wiki). The event is the evolution of the last year "Ubuntu party" but with now a title more open to gather all the project around the libre and not only Ubuntu related talks. I just couldn't imagine to not participate in it , and thanks to the cool organisation, I got very good dates : 2 events at 14h00 :) Many thanks , I love starting the afternoon. We will have for sure a good time.

This year I propose as a volunteer two free meeting : one conference, and one workshop ; both will be in french, and first one will be recorded ( for further streaming , maybe ) .

Saturday 26 november :

Amphi C002 (Multimedia)

~ 14h00-15h00 [1h] ~

"Mypaint 1.0 , basic creation process of brushes with Mypaint"

( 1h , I will not dive into too complex settings )

Sunday 27 november :

Salle A203

~ 14h00-17h00 [3h] ~

"Workshop : creation of a digital painting : Mypaint + Gimp"

( a workshop where every one will paint. Bring a working tablet , and Mypaint 0.9 or + and Gimp 2.6 or + )

more infos here for the main website^(fr) and here for the scheduling^(fr) and registering for the workshop. See you there !

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thursday 17 november 2011
category : Artworks, Resources
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Little Bot Bunny : free 3D model-sheet

Here a free model-sheet of my cute character 'little bot bunny' ( or LBB, or nicknamed 'Lap1' ). I release him under the Creative Commons By license . In short , this license allow you to share it for free, use it for free on your project ( even commercial ) , do derivative with it, teach how to model or to what you want with it ...etc... ... Only one condition ; I should keep mentioned in your project as the concept-artist and this should be publicly visible (exemple : "concept-art : David Revoy , www.davidrevoy.com" ). Feel free to use on it the material you want , pose you want, modification and derivatives are allowed . Exemple : you can do a steampunk version of it rusty with your own design on the top.

I did it as a gift you can find bundled with my recent interview in the free PDF magazine 'Blender Art' #35.

Feel free to use the comment to post a link to share your result.

Have a good modeling time !

( and I hope to see epic bunny fighting scene )

[ update : here an additional sketch about ears ]