The Penguin Producer
Be Free to Make Something Good!
The Penguin Producer
Navigation
  • News
  • About
    • Topics
  • Documentation
    • Information
    • Manual
    • Tutorial
    • Tip
    • List
  • Feedback
  • Podcast
    • Feed
  • RSS
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
You are here: Home › Archive for July 2012
Currently browsing

July 2012

A Tip to Podcasters: Silence is Golden

July 29, 2012 | Filed under: Tip

I’ve listened to several podcasts, including a couple where the hosts attempt to remove silences using tools such as Audacity’s “Detect Silence.” This can remove long periods of silence between words and sentences where hosts are attempting to think of ideas or if something happens. However, if you make the …

Creating Rolling Credits, Part 4: Fades to Black

July 26, 2012 | Filed under: Tutorial

So far, our scrolling credit rolls have ended pretty abruptly.  In this part of the credits tutorial series, we will cover the process of fading the credits to black using Blender scene animation.

Book Animation in Blender

July 23, 2012 | Filed under: Tip

A series of video tutorials on the Blender Cookie website show how to create a book with realistic page-turning effects.  This is a useful technique for several purposes.

Libre Graphics World

July 20, 2012 | Filed under: Site Recommendations

Doing some browsing about, I discovered another website that seems to exist in the same niche as my own.

Project Mango Teaser

July 14, 2012 | Filed under: News

Project Mango is the next project used for the development in Blender.  In this development cycle, they are attempting to improve Blender’s integration with live action video, and as you can see from this teaser, they’re really putting a lot of work into it.  I can’t wait to see where …

Blender-and-Inkscape Scroll

Creating Rolling Credits, Part 3: Using a Video Backdrop

July 13, 2012 | Filed under: Tutorial

On the first article, we discussed creating the credits document using Inkscape.  On the second article, we discussed using that document with Blender to create a rolling credits clip.  In this article, we will be covering the use of Blender to combine the scrolling text and a video backdrop.

Bitwig Logo

Bitwig Studio Will Support Jack

July 10, 2012 | Filed under: News

The primary question I’ve had regarding the Linux version of Bitwig Studio has been answered.  It does support Jack.  You can see this answer, and get more information on the FAQs page at the Bitwig Studio site. I’m not a part of the beta, as far as I know, but …

Creating Rolling Credits, Part 2: “Filming” Credits Page with Blender

July 4, 2012 | Filed under: Tutorial

This is part two of the “Creating Rolling Credits” series of articles.  In this article, we will take the credits page we created in Inkscape, and film it in Blender to result in the scrolling effect.

A Couple Useful Changes to the Blender Default Interface

July 2, 2012 | Filed under: Tip

Blender interface is extremely flexible, but in my opinion, it can be improved.  In this tip, I will cover some basics to Blender Interface manipulation, and give some suggestions what can be done to improve things, including the creation of a “camera viewfinder” window that we’ll be using in upcoming …

Final Credit Roll

Creating Rolling Credits, Part 1: Credits Page Creation in Inkscape

July 1, 2012 | Filed under: Tutorial

In a lot of movies and television shows, you’ll see a “rolling credits” clip at the end of the production.  This is a stylistic choice that seems to be a standard for a lot of productions, and not an unreasonable one: when the credits are scrolling, the viewer has more …

Categories

  • ►Blog (2)
    • ►Previews (1)
  • ►Documentation (61)
    • ►Information (13)
    • ►List (2)
    • ►Manual (9)
    • ►Tip (21)
    • ►Tutorial (16)
  • ►News (13)
  • ►Podcast (6)
  • ►Site Recommendations (1)
  • ►Uncategorized (2)

Communities

  • Blender Artists Community
  • GIMP Forums
  • GIMP Talk
  • GIMPER.NET
  • Inkscape Users Forum
  • Linux Musicians
  • Linuxaudio.org

Hardware Support

  • Alsa PCI and USB
  • FFADO Firewire
  • Linux-drivers.org

Tutorials

  • Blender Guru
  • GIMP Tutorials
  • Inkscape Tutorials Blog
  • Libre Graphics World
  • Screencasters (Inkscape Tutorials)
July 2012
S M T W T F S
« Jun   Aug »
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Penguin Producer Tip Jar

The Penguin Producer is an Amazon.com affiliate.

The Penguin Producer by Lampros Liontos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Powered by Esplanade Theme and WordPress