The Penguin Producer is now an Amazon affiliate. Now, before you begin worrying about the commercialization of the website, don’t. I do plan to sell things, but the (present and future) content on this site will be free for as long as I can keep up the hosting and domain …
I want people who are interested in the multimedia arts using Linux to have a resource available, and since the bulk of people are on Facebook, I decided to create a Penguin Producer Community page in addition to the Twitter account.
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 …
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 …
One of the most powerful tools in Blender for video editing is the ability to create a video texture for an object. This has the effect of turning the object into a video clip display object. You can then move it around at will, rotate it, bend it, scale it …
This week, there will be no Penguin Producer Podcast. Now, it’s not going anywhere, and more will be coming. Over the course of the last 6 weeks, Ryan and I have worked to figure out just what we will present, and how we will present it. Over the time, I’ve …
I seem to be under direct attack from a spammer today. I have updated the spam filter; it seems to be working well enough, but I apologize for the inconvenience for those who now have to use the whole password nonsense in the comments.
On the left sidebar, you should now see a new box with tutorial websites. What tutorial websites do you know of for Linux multimedia production? Anything you want to see added there?
I’ve done some cleanup; at this point, the RSS feeds, both blog and podcast, should now be in much cleaner shape. Apparently, WordPress is indiscriminate when it comes to publishing excerpts in RSS. I won’t do the same on the front page at this time, because the layout is better …
This is just a status update. I’m going to be stopping for now, but I am also planning to make some big changes to the site. Disabling the Forum I’ve disabled the forum for now, due to a general lack of interest (except for spammers). I’m sure there’s something I …