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Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by logicalshift »

tombert wrote: post #46
mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

I've been working on one for a while now that's very slowly coming together: https://github.com/logicalshift/flowbetween if you're interested.

I've been building out some backend stuff lately so there's a bunch of new features waiting to go in. https://github.com/Logicalshift/flo_draw has some demonstrations of the sort of procedural animation features I'm planning on adding, for instance.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by tombert »

_448 wrote: post #76
tombert wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

> I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. What limitations does https://www.synfig.org have?

Tough to say, I haven't used Synfig in a long long time. I'll give it another try and see if it's improved.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by angst_ridden »

m_st wrote: post #22
lopis wrote: post #10

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I just wish designers were more familiar with the SVG format and its caveats. Several times I've wanted to do some quick change in an SVG that was exported from Adobe Whatever and Inkscape was incapable of rendering it correctly, if at all. I'm pretty sure Adobe has been pushing the boundaries of SVG in the last years, while other tools stick to the basics.

I also had some issues with SVG exports from Inkscape not being drawn correctly when used as toolbar icons for Windows apps. The solution was Affinity Designer. Too bad, but at least it's an easy purchase rather than a subscription.

Affinity Designer is a great tool for those of us willing to use commercial/non-free software (and who hate Adobe). It's relatively inexpensive, and the company tries very hard to make users happy. I've used it for numerous projects requiring vector output, ranging from bespoke posters to feeding the laser cutter. It will output a lot of formats, but in combination with Inkscape, you can convert the output to pretty much anything you would need.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by dpacmittal »

mekkkkkk wrote: post #28

Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limited by not having access to those "premium" applications any more. There are issues of course - memory leaks and odd GUI handling on Windows in particular - but I've had the same sort of issue…

I wish we had an alternative to photoshop as well. Personally, for me, gimp doesn't even come close to what photoshop has to offer.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by tombert »

ramraj07 wrote: post #64
tombert wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

I'm curious if you think an exe of a very old version of flash might be enough for you.

Possibly yes, I was a big fan of Flash 8, but of course the older it gets, the more out of date it is, not to mention that I do not believe that Flash 8 will even work on modern Macs anymore (because of Apple dropping 32 bit support).

Right now, I have a couple-year-old permanent license to Toon Boom, which is very good, but of course it is very much not open source (and I do not believe they even let you do permanent licenses anymore). I'm not an animator, I just play with stuff occasionally, so I can't really justify ongoing costs, which is part of why I would prefer an OSS version.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by iFire »

Context: Rendering SVG and Lottie from like Inkscape.

Was amazing contributing as an open source contributor to the Samsung team at https://github.com/Samsung/thorvg and https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie.

`rlottie` is used in Discord and telegram for animated stickers and `thorvg` is the work-in-progress next generation animated vector / static vectors technology.

Hope that animated vectors is important to more people.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by cronix »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #71
ramses0 wrote: post #67

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https://shotcut.org - has done fairly well for me. I believe `DaVinci - Resolve` is a paid tool which also has a free linux version (with restrictions). Honestly, video editing can be crashy and resource-intensive so don't be afraid to pay for something.

Davinci Resolve is free on all platforms. Davinci Resolve Studio is paid, with lifetime license which includes upgrades forever.

> Davinci Resolve Studio is paid

And only $300. Once. Resolve is amazing. It replaced both Premiere and AE in my studio. Not bad for something that used to cost about $600k. You can get away with a hell of a lot in the free version as well.

History of Resolve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by hjek »

zackbrown wrote: post #68
tombert wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

Haiku Animator recently went free and open source: https://www.haikuanimator.com

Never heard of that one, but it's also very recently open-sourced. It's NodeJS with a browser-based GUI? Nice they're not going Electron. I wish there was a Flatpak but will definitely try out.

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This code was open-sourced in August 2021 when Haiku shut down the commercial collaboration/storage services connected to Haiku Animator.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by iFire »

_448 wrote: post #76
tombert wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, but I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. I know Krita has a decent animation tool, but it's only raster, and I haven't encountered a really good vector tool yet.

> I wish there was a decent open-source 2d Vector animation software that could compete with Flash/Animate. What limitations does https://www.synfig.org have?

I tried Synfig rendering to lottie and the vast majority of lottie ouputs were invalid.

Usecase: export to Discord / Telegram animated stickers and my Godot Engine extension module for lottie.

Re: Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

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Post by vetinari »

johnday wrote: post #79
hahamrfunnyguy wrote: post #73

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The performance is great on Windows. The main issue with Inkscape in the past was lack of proper CYMK support. I'd do all the work in Inkscape then bring into Illustrator. Adobe software these days is just slow and painful to use.

Do you have a good reason to be using newer versions of Adobe software? After all, the old ones do still exist, and most of the interchange formats haven't changed in a while. So far as I can tell, the primary good reason to maintain a modern version of Adobe products is so that they can interoperate with other people's modern version of Adobe products. (Though I understand Photoshop has released some nice new featur…

Older Adobe releases do not run on current Macs. Not a problem for Windows versions, but it is a problem for Mac versions.
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