It’s finally done. Episode 100 has been published. This is the longest running and our largest file size screencast to date. So grab yourself a beverage while it’s downloading and prepare to hunker down for a bit. It’s an hour long.

Inductiveload has written a rather nifty extension for Inkscape called Wireframe Spheres. Check it out.

Download it here.

Check out the tutorial.

Episode 099 is now available. Looks like I was able to get a screencast out in October after all thanks to Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

Episode 098 is now up. This episode demonstrates a few simple text treatments that you might find valuable in your next Inkscape design project.

Hey peoples,

It seems that I have broken some packages on my Ubuntu 9.04 system. Not sure if it’s RecordMyDesktop (which I have never had problems with in the past) or a few suspicious encoders that I installed from PPA a few weeks ago. Place your bets. Unfortunately it isn’t something I’m going to tear into an try to fix this close to the release of Ubuntu 9.10. That’s just a couple of weeks around the corner. I plan to format my system for that release since I usually end up installing a bunch of experimental thingies between releases anyway. I like a clean system.

I had episode 098 lined up and screencasted but it encoded so horribly that it’s unwatchable. Syncing issues, dropped frames…nasty. Unfortunately this post serves as an announcement that I won’t have any screencasts this month, at least not by me. So hopefully everything with Ubuntu 9.10 will be alright and I’ll be back in business.

See you then.

Episode 097 is up. Go do your thing.

HURRY! You’ve got until September 25th to submit your proposal/presentation for Libre Graphics Day. They need your participation.

http://libregraphicsday.org/cfp

I came across a rather interesting extension for Inkscape this morning found on InkscapeForum.com. It’s called PixelSnap, written by Mr. Brian Hoyt. In a nutshell it aligns all objects to the nearest pixel (without using that darned grid snapping method). I tried it myself and it works as advertised.  It’s rather handy for correcting small web graphics by getting them as sharp as possible after exporting them to bitmap. Read more and download the extension from here: http://code.google.com/p/pixelsnap

I’ve just posted Episode 096 which demonstrates how to use Inkscape’s Axonometric grid feature to create isometric illustrations for things like fancy pseudo-3d diagrams or Game maps etc.

This is the first Inkscape screencast I’ve done that I edited together using Blender.

Blender rocks.

Episode 095 has been posted.