You may have come here seeking my animations of Knights of the Dinner Table, Dork Tower, or Paranoia XP. Trust that I do intend to repost them here soon. Obviously, I’ve decided to drag myself kicking and screaming onto a web package that’s easier to update. Other things will change too, like the theme and [...]
I’m writing with curious and curiouser apprehension at the altered beast sitting before me.
It started when TheJoe decided to switch the servers over to Linux, then began to migrate all his other computers over. In between his talk and flinging out names I’d only heard in passing like CentOS and Fedora he told me about [...]
Things are working pretty well. My keyboard and mouse (Logitech G13 and G7) work under Ubuntu, although things like the side mouse button and the LCD screen aren’t supported.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get my Aiptek tablet to work properly in Ubuntu. TheJoe even went through the whole instruction set posted here, and it [...]
So the first project I decide to tackle in Ubuntu Studio is a logo for my site. I wanted to have something that reflected my work in graphics and audio, so I busted out my sketchbook and started doodling:
[singlepic=6,320,240,,]
My first idea was to have a pen or pencil draw a speaker while the soundwaves from [...]
Well, after some searching around, I found some online documentation stating flat out that Scribus doesn’t support clipping and masking from Inkscape SVGs. Grrr. Well, as I said, I wanted to redo this logo as it wasn’t quite what I wanted it to look like. After doing some image searches and looking at some vector [...]
Caution: major spoilers ahead.
Hostel II was actually a cautionary tale for rich Americans. The moral: vote Republican.
Hear me out.
After the bit with Paxton, we are introduced to three Americans. More to the point, they represent the American taxpayer. And they are enjoying their life. Living their life. Even the father of one of them calls [...]
Probably one of the most sought-after applications for Linux is a 2D animation solution. The fact that Adobe offers no Linux support for Flash sends many people to the Linux forums asking if there’s some sort of Flash-like program for Linux, myself included. I’ve looked at the common responses to these requests and most of [...]
So this is what I’ve been working on for the past month. I made this using Synfig for animation, Hydrogen for
the background beats, Audacity for creating and editing sound effects, Cinelerra for compositing video and audio and rendering, Avidemux for YouTube conversion and GnoTime Tracker for keeping track of how much time I spent making [...]
So far the graphic-designer/Linux-newbie (GD/LN) has been very happy with the audio tools in Ubuntu Studio, but one thing that is sorely missed is some type of beat slicer like Recycle. The GD/LN was happy to find one being developed called Freecycle, but has so far had trouble getting it to install at all. With [...]
OK, so there’s been some inactivity on the site and I thought I’d post on what’s been up lately.
Well, my friends and I have moved again. Usually I have a bit of anxiety whenever we move, but this one I felt good about. Part of that feeling was due to how cramped and crappy the [...]