MyPaint Gets Animation for New Open Movie
2D Painting application MyPaint just got a major new feature in the form of the ability to create animations. It’s currently available as a stand alone modification to MyPaint, developed by Manuel Quiñones. He developed it for an open movie project focussed on creating a short animated film about a boy who discovers the history of the forest villages and logging in his native Argentina, through a journey along a railway track.
The project is also utilising Blender for 3D aspects of the film, along with backgrounds hand painted in acrylic. For more about the project, check out this excellent article on libre graphics world. If you’re interested in trying out MyPaint’s new animation abilities, then you can check out the source code from Gitorious. It’s unlikely to become a trunk addition to the deliberately minimalist MyPaint, but will probably branch off as it’s own project or as a plugin if MyPaint adds support for plugins.Libre Graphics World: MyPaint Gets Animation for New Open Movie Project
Open Movie Project: “Viaje a la tierra del Quebracho”.
awesome!!!
wow, never seen this coming! Nice. I wish blender had more controls on grease pencil rather like this ones
Now this is awesome!
Hope this will grow into a new big addition to the animation tools!
pretty cool came forth
Now my wacom graphire can create an animation in mypaint under ubuntu
@Benjy
Do you think you could add a direct link to the animation project’s website? Thanks :)
Awesome! Aside Pencil I don’t find any interesting animation software for free.
How do you get it into mypaint????
@Jeremy
How do we get what into MyPaint? :)
That’s fantastic and rly unexpected!
@Sandking http://www.synfig.org
I’ve looked at Pencil and Synfig myself before, but was looking for something for just putting together flickbook-type timing tests, like animation sketching, and Pencil didnt work well for me at the time. This MyPaint addon/branch or whatever it is looks remarkably accomplished and well featured for something that has appeared from nowhere.
Very cool.
I wonder if they could make a windows version . To bad if not
@KeeCoyote
Windows builds generally have releases as prerequisites, especially for projects with a user base that small :)
Right now the fork doesn’t even change binary’s name, so you need to define a custom installation prefix.
I just discovered myPaint this past week. Love it and am interested in trying out the animation add on
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Alexandre
The Add on =)
very nice, thank’s you, and with a webcam, you can test MonkeyJam ; http://monkeyjam.en.softonic.com/
very usefull too for cartoon animators.
@Jeremy
You don’t get it into MyPaint. It’s a fork of MyPaint with a single new feature: animation. If you are on Linux, clone the repo from Gitorious and build it. Don’t forget to pass scons an argument to install to a different prefix like /opt to avoid clashes against regular mypaint.
For sketching and storytelling…. 2D animating. May be.
@Alexandre: I’ve added a link to the open movie project.
@Sandking
if you’re on windows you could use PAP Animation – which is free as well (is not developed anymore)
http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/
but you should have more than a talent to create an animation using ‘ frame by frame redrawing everything ‘ technique!
Love Mypaint,
Anything to help it, or make it fun while using it!
I’m all for it. Keep up the great work.
I WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never forget to disable compiz on ubuntu if you are an graphic designer!
thanks!! feel much better now :)
Wish this was here 2 months ago so we could have used it for our storyboards. Oh well, maybe for the next one.
Very cool, thanks for sharing.