HPR4491: Thibaut and Ken Interview David Revoy

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Thibaut and Ken Interview David Revoy the artist behind the Pepper and Carrot. This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license David has had a very interesting life, as can be seen by his Wikipedia entry. David Philippe Revoy born in 1981 in Reims, is a French artist best known as the creator of the free webcomic series Pepper and Carrot which is translated into 27 languages to a degree of 90 percent or more. Revoy worked as art director on the Blender short film Sintel, which was the first major project that used free software to produce free culture that Revoy encountered.He would later also work on the Blender films Tears of Steel and Cosmos Laundromat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Revoy During the interview we have a chat about how he became an artist, how he got involved in the Free Software Community and why he releases much of his work under a Creative Commons License. The following are links to just some of the topics we discussed. "Krita screenshot pepper and carrot" by David Revoy − CC-BY 4.0 Framasoft Framasoft is one of the main French language portals to the free and open-source culture providing a space for orientation, information, news, exchange, and projects. Its community regularly brings resources and assistance to people who would like to get started with free software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft Inkscape Inkscape is a free and open-source software vector graphics editor released under a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 or later. It is used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at unlimited resolution and is not bound to a fixed number of pixels like raster graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkscape Krita Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. https://krita.org/en/ Spring Spring is a 2019 animated fantasy short film written and directed by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi. It is the Blender Institute's 12th "open movie", and was made utilizing the open-source software, Blender. The film is about a young shepherd and her dog confronting ancient spirits in order to bring about the change of seasons.