8 Responses to “Episode 051”

1. Patrick Says:
   February 8th, 2008 at 5:01 am

   That was awesome! I am going to watch this at least ten more times.I particularly liked the gloss added to some of the edges, the gradients that were used to illustrate the bevels and the subtle black outline between the wood like exterior and the darker CRT inside. It gives it the impression that the inner CRT area protrudes just slightly. These are the kinds of details I cannot see by myself. I really appreciate your guidance.

   Okay here I go for the second time around…..

   Thanks, You and Richard are amazing!!!

2. Serge Gielkens Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 4:28 am

   As Patrick says, awesome. You have done a great job with that bezel. It looks like one piece instead of a composite.

   As for the quality, I noticed that the Inkscape window was not 800×600 anymore, but something like 792×590. Could that be the cause of the deterioration?

   Edit. Probably not. I just saw that in some of the previous shows the Inkscape window was not 800×600 either. I hope you did not mix scripts due to the MP4 discussion thread

3. heathenx Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 5:27 am

   @Serge

   Hmm. Have you ever used MediaInfo? I use it in Linux and Windows. After sticking it in your /usr/bin dir just “MediaInfo ep051.avi” in a terminal and it returns the media information on that file.

4. Serge Gielkens Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am

   I just tried MediaInfo. It shows indeed a lot of information in a practical way. Up till now I used the properties dialog of the Nautilus file manager for basic information or MPlayer for more detailed information.

   By the way, with “Inkscape window” I was actually referring to its own window size on the video not to the video dimensions. Around the Inkscape window there is a border which fills up to 800×600. I was just thinking that the Inkscape window might accidentally have been scaled down by the screen recording software or something like that.

5. heathenx Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 6:45 am

   Oh, I understand now.

   I use KDE and a nice thing about it is that I can change the default startup application size to anything that I want. However, I cannot go smaller than the application allows. When in Windows I do this with a small tool called “Sizer”. It sits in my titlebar (just like KDE) and allows me to right-click and change the dimensions of any dialog or application window.

   I’m curious what differences there will be, if any, in KDE4. I’m in the process of downloading release 4.0.1 so that I can install it in VirtualBox.

6. Jelle Says:
   February 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm

   It think that looks pretty good.

   No seriously, great great tutorials. Never was ‘into’ vectorbased drawing, but now I totally love it and want to learn more about it. Supercool effects.

   Thanks for these videos. Keep ‘m coming, they’re awesome.

7. David Paksy Says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 5:25 am

   Thanks!
   Very amazing work!

8. woo Says:
   January 28th, 2010 at 11:21 am

   thanks for this tutorial. i found it very useful, especially for the highlights of the outlines, than makes good realistic. this is my result: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7638/oldtv.png

   hope i’ve done everything right.

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