Episode - 061 A Simple 3D Object
May 31st, 2008 by rfquerin
Episode 061 is now up. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a pseudo-realistic looking recycle bin type object. It could be useful for someone wanting to create icons perhaps. It only took 7 or 8 objects to create and demonstrates how some subtle uses of gradients and blurs can help get the effect you want.
I also fooled around with my Flip video camera and ended up doing a fun little intro with it. Hope you like it.
Note: The flash version of the intro is a little choppy. Heathenx and I had a fairly long chat today about why the FLV video plays much choppier in the browser than it does when you play the FLV file directly with VLC. Anyway, the downloadable AVI version looks much better. We’ll be investigating improvements to the streaming version in the next little while.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:31 am
Hey Richard, nice intro, that was an original intro i liked compared to your main content being previewed; gives character to the podcast. ALSO I was wondering if I would be allowed to upload the videos/podcast to either/both of Veoh.com or vimeo.com. As I tried the 1st two (#001) to see and they seem fairly popular as Inkscape video’s on those sites seem fairly non-existent, but I did direct them to this main site in the video description for goodwill and many purposes of course. But I was wondering whether or not I could more widely distribute them and cause more traffic to you guys by showcasing on a widely used site other than just youtube as I believe heathenx does indeed do. Just wondering if i can, or if one of you would like to, as I think it would be beneficial regardless who does it, but I will not redistribute without your guy’s consent of course
Well great #061 and that keystroke notifier was a REALLY big help, now all you need to find is a standard non-obstructive position for it… up top above the toolbar beside the main menu??
June 1st, 2008 at 8:31 am
Great tutorial.
Keystroke notifier will now help many people who don’t understand correctly english.
For my part, a good position would be in the bottom left !
June 1st, 2008 at 9:27 am
@eric - Glad you enjoyed it. We license our screencasts with a Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike licence. It’s a very open license. So I don’t think there’s a problem with posting them elsewhere. You can check out the specifics of the license in plain english at (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
I think both Heathenx and myself have almost stopped posting our stuff to YouTube, not just because of the 10min time limit and rather poor quality, but mostly I think because we are just too lazy!
I don’t mind them being posted elsewhere with attribution, especially if the quality is decent.
@eclipse - Yeah, I was thinking the bottom left goes pretty much unused (for me anyway) when I’m using Inkscape. Although it’s pretty easy to move it around if the need arises. I think it’s a great tool for screencasts. Thanks for watching.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
@eric
To be clear, when I said ‘I don’t mind them being posted elsewhere’, I meant other sites in general. People can also post them to YouTube too. It kinda sounded like I wanted them posted places other than YouTube which isn’t what I meant.
It’s early, I’m tired. Brain is not quite running full speed yet.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Well na… I wouldn’t disgrace such a thing by re-encoding to a horribly low-quality flash, if you’ve ever checked out sites like Veoh and vimeo they have HIGH QUALITY stuff, even HD flash content lol. So HD that my box can’t even play the damn stuff smoothly with CPU scheduling towards the flashplayer plug-in niceness of -20 (the highest). Well I just wanted to be sure, as I’m a man of respect and would respect your word and say. And yea, the CC licence is quite permissive indeed. Thanks again!! I’ll be startin that shit asap
Finally I can use my upload bandwidth for something useful lol. Until next time!