Episode 073
Episode 073 – License Plate
by heathenx
In this screencast I will take a stab at creating a vector license plate in Inkscape 0.46.
PSHERO.com once again gets the credit for this screencast. Once I saw his tutorial I immediately made one of my own just to see if I could do it. I’ll try not to duplicate his tutorials too often out of respect for him and his tutorial site…but dog gone it!…his tutorials are so fun to follow. It’s his fault. 
Thank-you for the inspiration, PSHERO.
Reference:
PSHERO.com – License Plate
Tags: license plate
October 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Once again you’ve done an incredible job. Thank you.
But at the moment the flash video does not work. Every time I try to watch it I get an error message.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:02 am
@Caedus,
I can confirm that you’re right about the flash file. I’m pretty sure Heathenx is on the case about this. You can still download the avi file if you right-click/saveAs on the little ‘video AVI’ tag at the bottom of the post. I’m sure the flash problem will be fixed in fairly short order.
Sorry ’bout that.
RQ
October 13th, 2008 at 8:34 am
So sorry everyone. I am running into permission problems with the files on our ftp server. If I do not chmod them correctly then no one has access to the videos/html even though the files are there. Not sure why I’m having trouble lately.
Should be fixed now…I think.
October 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
If you guys are looking for something a little more unique you should try using the axonometric grid and the 3D Boxes tool to make a picture like in one of those Lego instruction books. I was able to get some nice looking results pretty quickly.
I have a picture of it so let’s all hope this link works…
http://www.woodenogre.com/bill/lego.png
October 13th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
@Bill
Nice work.
I fiddled with legos in Inkscape awhile back. I used this site as reference. They are somewhat easy to model and fun to fool around with. Maybe we should screencast this eventually.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Very interesting tutorial. It is possible to create in Inkscape something like http://pshero.com/archives/old-world-wax-seal ?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
@ JomaAsbrink This is one of mine after seeing the pshero, really easy.
This may take you there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30416865@N04/2890765027/
October 16th, 2008 at 10:36 am
@JomaAsbrink
Well, mine is far from perfect. Still needs some fixing but maybe you can take it from here. I used a filter.
http://misc.heathenx.org/wax_seal.svg
PS. The above file will not look so good in most browsers. Filters do not render well.
Rendered version here:
http://misc.heathenx.org/wax_seal.png
October 16th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I gave this a try too. I didn’t use any filters, just ole-fashioned circles, offsets, blurs etc. I did use Tiled clones though so I feel quite proud of myself.
You can check it out here: http://rfquerin.org/temp/wax_seal_rq.png
October 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
@RQ, Very nice. This is one I put up a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30416865@N04/2948338462/
October 18th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Idea for next screencast: http://prokoudine.info/blog/?p=84
October 20th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
How did we get from a License Plate to lego and wax seals? I did some Lego with Blender as well…
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c143/LDS_Trooper/lego/scout_attack2.png
October 26th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I have just discovered inksape and vector graphics and must say your tutorials were an absolute godsend. Many thanks for taking the time and effort to share your knowledge ( and other peoples) in such a clear and precise way. I have only been using inkscape for a week and already have had friends ask if i can provide art work for them. I will try and post what i come up with. Again many thanks and keep up the good work.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Richard, there is no “little ‘video AVI’ tag” for Episode 073….
I know this is older material now, do you guys intend to post an AVI of it?
January 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Fixed. Sorry about that. For some reason we keep having problems with this episode.
In case it happens again you can find it in our video repo: http://screencasters-repo.heathenx.org
April 12th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Looks great and it is useful for me.
July 3rd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
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