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How to Make Cartoon Drawings with Inkscape

Today I want to teach you how to make the stylish cartoon character drawings you see on the Hello World Program website. This technique can be used to transform any boring picture into a luscious, colorful cartoon. We’ll be using a free and open…

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Coloring Inked Drawings with Inkscape

There are many ways to approach coloring in Inkscape. In this tutorial I’ll show you two methods that I like. Open up you graphic in Inkscape and lets get started. If you don’t have an inked drawing to work with, you might want to read the tutorial…

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How To Cartoonify a Photograph with GIMP

How do you make an awesome photograph awesomer? Cartoonify it! In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to make a cartoon from a photograph using GIMP. If you want to follow along, you can download this picture of Guido. It’s the image we created in…

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A Brief Primer on Video Formats

Video formats are terribly important for video editors to understand. They are also incredibly boring. So I’ll be as brief as I can while hitting the major points you should familiarize yourself with. Lets start with a dash of history. NTSC was the…

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Locate or Find Waldo with the Bash Shell

That wily Mr. Waldo is off on another one of his adventures. This time he’s taken refuge somewhere in the Linux file tree, and it’s up to us to figure out where he went. There are two excellent bash shell commands at our disposal: find and locate. I…

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List Doughnut Contents with the ls Command

Trouble is afoot in “the_doughnuts” directory. It seems our friend Homer Price has built himself a newfangled, automatic, doughnut-making machine, and he can’t get it to shut off! On top of that, Ada Lovelace lost her diamond bracelet in the batter…

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How to Learn Blender Cycles

The learning curve for Blender is notoriously steep. Add Cycles to the mix and you’re more or less rock climbing. What’s for dinner? Node spaghetti. Mmm. Blender Cycles is intimidating at first, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be kicking back…

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Introduction to Lightworks Video Editor

While Lightworks has only been available to the general public for a few short years, this award-winning editing suite has been servicing film industry professionals since the early 1990s. Being at the forefront of the digital film editing revolution…

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A Brief Primer on Video Formats

Your robot is looking good, but that default gray is a bit drab. In this chapter you will learn how to apply Blender materials and shape keys to brighten up your robot. If you’re just joining us, you will want to start with Part 1, Beginner Blender…

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