I am a professional 3d artist that has been in the industry for about 7 years working on kids shows, commercials and for the past 5 years visual fx for feature film.

My primary function at work as a senior 3d artist is shading/texturing of assets.


Currently we use many applications in linux for our pipeline however we use macs to run photo shop. Since Adobe will never budge it would be great to have a linux alternative to kick its ****. Gimp though improving over the years is no where close. Krita seems to have the vision and potential to fill the need.

I am not a programmer... Is there a way I can get kontribute to this effort?

Thanks Wrender, that's what we love to hear!

I'd suggest that what is really needed right now is for artists to *use* Krita, show off artwork publicly, and give feedback on bugs and what's needed over at Bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org). While bugzilla seems to be the method that's easiest for the dev's to use, they all seem to read this forum and #krita on freenode, so whatever method works for you. The most important thing (imho) is just to use it, show the images and give us feedback.

There are some really innovative features in Krita, and performance / stability is rapidly improving. There are still rough edges, though. Helping the team to find the improvements that are most important to *you* help us focus on the improvements that count. It also gives us some nice images to help promote and grow Krita's contributor community even more.

Anyway, it's nice to welcome another artist to the community (also in Canada using Kubuntu, like me no less!). Feel free to post on these forums, or pop into #krita, if we can help you more. We're a pretty friendly community that like to help the people helping us.


PS: Another very quick way, is to add a link to Krita.org in any forum signatures you have. This can often help our site get a hundreds of relevant links in only minutes. Feel free to steal my sig.

Also you could try to do your normal work with Krita and then give us feedback about things you missed or that should be improved.

slangkamp wrote:Also you could try to do your normal work with Krita and then give us feedback about things you missed or that should be improved.

Uh... yeah! That's a shorter way of saying it.

Thank you for your interest in my input. There is so much to discuss...

I guess the best thing to do is for me to start a thread with a manifesto if you will that defines the production use/needs in a normal day. Then see how Krita fits into it. Perhaps those that are interested can discuss back and forth about it and or point me in the right direction if/when I get lost or confused. (which happens lol)



ps. Our work runs a custom build of openSUSE with kde 3.x I don't think we will be switching to kde 4.x until our next linux refresh. Further more at work I get paid to produce and be useful so I can't jeopardize work time with software that I can't guarantee I can get the job done with for now. So I will have to limit it to home poking for now.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

What version of Krita are you looking at trying? Ironically Karmic seems to have v2.1 which is old, but usable, while Lucid has a much older version (2.0.2). I find that often trunk is more stable than the older packaged versions. You can see step by step instructions for compiling on Kubuntu at:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/CompilingKoffice2

This way you get to see any of your suggested improvements / bugfixes straight away.


Anyway, there's just about always someone around on IRC and in these forums who'll be happy to help out with any help you need, so ask away! Also check out this post that I created to share the things that weren't obvious when I started...