Alexandre Prokoudine @prokoudine@mastodon.social

Also, if you're wondering how far is a first alpha release of Akira, you can track our progress and missing features from here: https://github.com/akiraux/Akira/issues/206

Hey folks, Alex here, just a quick heads up that I will be working on Akira full time for the first 3 weeks of January, so expect more updates and news.
Meanwhile, some much needed improvements and fixes are on their way: https://github.com/akiraux/Akira/pull/225

Let's talk about user interface design. This is my parents' microwave. The task is to warn up food. How?

Announcing open production for Episode 2

Remember I promised some cool announcement in my last report? So, here it goes!

Production process of Morevna Episode 2 will be public.

That means anyone will be able to access all content, all working files, all stuff while we are working on episode. So, anyone will be able to follow and learn from our working process.

https://morevnaproject.org/2019/12/23/announcing-open-production-for-episode-2/

#BlenderBIM can now do construction documentation, clash detection, and proxy materials and objects. We can do commercial projects completely without any proprietary software. Version controlled with Git. 100% free and open source pipeline to build buildings.

See all the latest updates now:

https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/presenting-blender-as-a-new-ifc-authoring-tool/1791/65

This. This changes things. A lot.

Go #opensource. Go #OpenBIM. Quit #Revit. Quit #Autodesk.

#blender

Hey #artwithopensource and #mastoart folks, the @kde community is having two very cool competitions for you to participate in:

Video competition:
https://community.kde.org/Promo/Plasma_5.18_Video_Competition

Background competition:
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition

The prizes are 3 computers from @tuxedocomputers

#blender #natron #kdenlive #inkscape #krita #gimp

New Pepper&Carrot "Episode 31: The Fight" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article464/episode-31-the-fight
#peppercarrot #krita #creativecommons #webcomic

#Blender's #USD Exporter landed in master! It's still marked as experimental, because some things are bound to change. I hope to have that lifted before the feature freeze of 2.82 :)

#b3d @openusd@twitter.activitypub.actor #IndustryStandards

I see a lot of people complain about the floppy disk icon for "save", but I've never seen anyone complain about the term "paste"....

Wherever you go in the world, there's always a fake HP printer WiFi access point

Congratulations to Inkscape artist Bayu Rizaldhan Rayes! He's our version 1.0 About Screen Contest Winner with Island of Creativity. We're thrilled! Thanks to Rayes for his creation! https://inkscape.org/~bayubayu/%E2%98%85island-of-creativity

Krita for concept art part 1. Jama Jurabaev brushes. https://share.tube/videos/watch/af5466cb-7f4a-4199-9ab0-d6bbe5285d3a

Well, here we go. My code for exporting from #Blender to Universal Scene Description (#USD @openusd@twitter.activitypub.actor) is under review. https://developer.blender.org/D6287

#b3d #IndustryStandards

Work on the Universal Scene Description (#USD) exporter has continued. I'm cleaning up code and adding some automated tests. I'm aiming to get the patch into review some time this or next week.

#b3d #Blender #IndustryStandards

Got inspired while listening to some City Pop

Really excited to be a part of @Krita_artists community at krita-artists.org . I invite all the @Krita artists and developers to join this forum.

https://krita-artists.org

Share your love for #Inkscape with users by designing our next About Screen! Contest runs until Nov. 17. Curious to see how our About Screen has evolved over the versions? Check out our gallery & contest details here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/