![]() ![]() There are also all the derivative projects. There are more than 30 translators and I get a lot of help. I’m really proud of the Pepper&Carrot community. I mean, the production is always challenging. The “Pepper & Carrot” webcomic is probably your most well-known work…ĭavid Revoy: Each episode of Pepper&Carrot is a little miracle. ![]() Paul Brown: Let’s talk about your art itself. Paul Brown: But you use Krita on Linux, right?ĭavid Revoy: Yes, I’m a Linux user since 2009. Paul Brown: Is this still true, though? That there are more developers than users, or have things changed?ĭavid Revoy: It totally changed after the Krita developers made a Windows version. Paul Brown: I must say I love your speed-painting videos. Back then digital painting on GNU/Linux had more developers than users and beta-testers. I have also published a lot of tutorials and made two DVDs with the Blender Foundation. Paul Brown: Have you converted a lot of your colleagues yourself?ĭavid Revoy: Not colleagues, but my energy and demo converted and invited a lot of Internet users to try to do the same thing. It was the proof of concept made with Gimp and Mypaint. Back in 2009 I did my first public demo video. Even if it’s not the primary tool (not yet), it’s installed and a lot of artists keep an eye on it. Paul Brown: Do they still think the same now?ĭavid Revoy: No! And Krita is installed on every computer I see. Paul Brown: Really? It would seem that the joke is on them, what with the expensive licenses, forced costly updates, and so on.ĭavid Revoy: Well, the features and the way the software was designed were not professional at all back then. Paul Brown: Talking of fellow artists… How do they see your use of a Free Software tool for your work? Are they surprised?ĭavid Revoy: At first, a lot of them laughed at my set up. Paul Brown: Why do you think other artists put up with this kind of thing?ĭavid Revoy: I guess they think they don’t have choice.ĭavid Revoy: I was always against piracy, but I guess a lot of people don’t think the same.ĭavid uses Krita running on GNU/Linux to design Pepper&Carrot. That was a really bad week: a had to spend a lot of money and my productivity was totally ruined.Ī lot of artist laughed at my Free Software set up. So, I *had* to upgrade everything to Vista. Unfortunately, in 2009 I bought a machine with a motherboard only compatible with Vista drivers. I was the owner of a windows XP pro license and I thought I could just buy a computer and install this OS and all my software on to it. The price was like 300€ for one, 150€ for the other, but I also had to update Manga Studio, the Sony Vegas video editor, and many apps in the same situation. I had to update the pack so it was stable on Windows Vista. What was that all about?ĭavid Revoy: It was Photoshop and Corel-Painter. Paul Brown: Just to continue down memory lane a bit more, I read you once had to pay $800 just for one feature on a proprietary app. Paul Brown: You say Krita was unusable back then… And now?ĭavid Revoy: Nowadays Krita is amazing :). We worked together and, in 2012, I moved all my work and started using Krita exclusively. They obtained some money from a crowdfunding and were able to hire a developer to do the job. Before that Krita was a general image editing app. The team decided to adapt it to digital painting round about that time. At around 2009/2010, Krita wasn’t really usable. I started to do lot of advocacy work in favour of GNU/Linux painting, and that’s how I met the Krita team.ĭavid Revoy: Gimp and Mypaint. I can see the resemblance with Pepper & Carrot.ĭavid Revoy: I did all the work with open source. Then I got hired by the Blender Foundation to do the art direction of the open movie Sintel. I started to do my digital painting work this way, with few features. They were MyPaint and a Japanese fork of GIMP named Gimp-painter. So I decided to get involved with a couple of projects I found. It was an investment of a full month’s salary only for a compatibility update, without any additional features.ĭavid Revoy: Back in 2009, digital painting on Linux and free software in general was almost non-existent. All the proprietary software I owned (Photoshop, Painter, etc.) required I buy upgrade packs. But at one point I got burnt by a Windows Vista update. Paul Brown: So… Why do you use Krita over a more… er… let’s say “popular” software like Photoshop?ĭavid Revoy: I was a Photoshop and Corel Painter teacher and user from around 1999 to 2009. Today we are talking to David Revoy, creator of Pepper&Carrot and Krita ambassador and evangelist. ![]()
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