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The Ghost Machine

2010-05-06T04:23:00.002+05:30

"The Ghost Machine" is a science fiction film currently under production.

This film is being produced by DarkWhite Productions, an upbeat and upcoming Animation and Effects house currently operating from Delhi, India.

Producer: Shaily Kumar
Writer, Director & Executive Producer: Rajiv Mudgal
Cinematographer: Nandan Saxena
Production Manager: Kavita Bahl

First Assistant:
Second Assistant: Shashwat & Sidharth

Bengal's bankura terracotta monkey and elephant test

2009-10-28T00:39:00.002+05:30

Render test

(click on the Image to enlarge)

Bengal's bankura terracotta horse test render

2009-10-25T04:07:00.004+05:30

click on the image to enlarge it

house inside test

2009-10-23T06:13:00.001+05:30

Some more test renders (click on the image to enlarge)

Engine test

2009-10-21T04:54:00.005+05:30

This is the first draft of the engine. the final has deeper changes, especialy areas where the design and mesh had to be modified for better and smoother rigging.

Click on the image to enlarge

Daboo and Atom Ant

2009-10-16T08:38:00.004+05:30

These two were produced in 1996 and 1998 for UTV and Wireframe respectively.
Daboo was a 13 episode short serial and The adventures of Atom Ant was Game Cinamatics.
3d Studio version 4 (Yost Group) and 3dstudio Max version 1 or may be 2 by (Kinetix) was used.

Daboo and Atom Ant from rajivmudgal on Vimeo.

Amritsar sewerage project

2009-10-16T08:37:00.004+05:30

amritsarcorp.com/ProjectSewerage.htm

Amritsar sewerage project from rajivmudgal on Vimeo.
http://www.amritsarcorp.com/ProjectSewerage.htm

Around four months back I was approached to create an animated presentation that would visually explain in simple layman's language, the complexity and scale of a sewage treatment project.
Basically, I had to create a series of clips explaining the various steps involved in the purification process. The visual part of the presentation was supposed to be not more then a minute or so, and all this was supposed to be done within a week's time. To complicate things further it had to follow the PPP slides.

So, basically it was a visual replacement of the usual power point presentation which I was supposed to follow diligently but at the same time it was expected to have that extra feel and sense of corporeality. But a deadline of just one week leaves little space for creative imagination and hardly provides the time required for experimentation.

In such a short notice we had no other option by to stick the guns in blender and get the thing right at the very first take.

The most complicated part was the aerator section which involved a heavy use of fluid dynamics and particle system, so it was the first to be engaged with.

Anyway, the presentation turned out to be to their satisfaction though they could not believe that the last clip where the the clean water is shown flowing into the a muddy canal or gutter was actually created in blender. They thought I had used real water footage and composited it over the stream. But it was all created in blender. Basically the water was animated with blender's fluid simulation and a mask was created in gimp to allow the clean water to blend in with the muddy and dirty stream.

The motion graphics might not be one of the usual eye candy's. But then, ultimately, delivering the goods at short notice and to clients satisfaction is all that counts. And like the fabled chetak, blender has the tools, the necessary horse power and that rare ability to rescue you from the otherwise overwhelming and impossible deadlines.

Please note that: These are separate clips and are supposed to be played at various intervals, but for the sake of convenience I have joined them all into one.

Speed Post

2009-10-16T08:34:00.000+05:30

I did these Ads in Blender for India Post
There were total of four Ads, two 10 sec and two 20 sec ad.
The one shown here are 10 sec ad.

Speed Post Ad1 Done In Belnder from rajivmudgal on Vimeo.

Second Speedpost Ad from rajivmudgal on Vimeo.

House test

2009-10-16T01:54:00.007+05:30

We wanted to do some initial tests of the house, the engine, the tree and some other landmarks.
As most of the scene would be moonlit (spooky to be precise), we thought of using the ancient trick of rendering in full daylight and using the video post (compositor) to achieve the moon light effect with the necessary shadows.
Of course these are the very early renders and the final color and mood would be very different.
We will be creating masks to highlight areas and hide others. This way its much easy on cpu and we save considerable time gains.

Other tests to follow: Engine, trees, landscape etc.

Simply click on the image to see it clear

Compiling Kino and HandBrake

2009-10-11T17:56:00.002+05:30

Well Kino is like a video work horse on Linux. It supports accurate DV capture and playback and is quite similar to Sceneanalyser and boast features that are not available in any dedicated stand alone capture program. Apart from capture it also supports excellent encoding features.
HandBrake on the other hand is the portable media king. It also cuts excellent web optimized videos.
Compiling Both the programs is as easy as walk down the garden.
So what do you need to do first.

First and foremost follow the steps 1 to 3 as outlined here. If you have already done so, then Ignore this.
Now the Basics.
Download Source from: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kino/kino-1.3.4.tar.gz
Extract it to your favorite directory. Navigate into it. and then type:

./configure
make
sudo make install

That's it. you can now run Kino by simply typing kino in the terminal or from the menu.
So you thought it was complicated right. Hand Brake is even more easy.

Create a directory HandBrake:
mkdir HandBrake
navigate into it:

cd HandBrake
svn co svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk handbrake
./configure

Now navigate into the folder build

cd build
make -j4
sudo make install

That's it
You should now see the icon in your applications/Sound and Video menu.
Have fun.

Blender for large size prints

2009-10-08T13:38:00.002+05:30

Well I ran into rendering issues, especially with lights and texture resolution in Blender version 2.4. I wanted to render at 10k but blender would crash and render out with weird artifacts. These would vanish at lower resolutions, so I had to render at a lower resolution of 3338 by 4108. I was unable to solve the problem, could be related to highly optimized builds with fastmath etc.
The Image was supposed to look like a new packaged deal, with Iron rods sticking out and the musical notes were supposed to be welded. These were supposed to be human size large poster mounted on trucks and large pole.
Apart from Blender and Gimp I ended up using Inkscape. Also all the textures were created in Inkscape at 10K resolution.

Blender for stills

2009-10-08T13:37:00.003+05:30

Hi
These images were part of series of pre-visualization work that required approximating the look and feel for a Massive promotional project. The task at hand was to render a few clips from varying angles that would highlight how the final (actual mobile rig) would look. Once approved, actual mobile rigs would be created that would roam the country side giving performances and distributing promotional materials.
The client wanted to launch a pre-launch campaign in the city as well as towns and villages showcasing the new FM radio channel called "Dhamal" meaning "fun"

I was presented with two concepts The Idea was that the work should reflect the moods and expectation of the City; at the same time, another would cater to the old is gold pace of Indian villages. From the village point of view, they wanted the campaign vehicle to look like an old tube radio of the 50's and 60's, where as the one intended for the city was supposed to give a look and feel of ultra-modernity.

All clips were modelled, textured and rendered in Blender. Along with Blender Gimp was extensively used. Blender version 2.4 or may be (don't remember exactly) 2.41 was utilised running on Fedora. All clips were rendered in 1920 by 1080 resolution.

Two recent test renders In blender for a friend

2009-10-08T13:35:00.005+05:30

Ok, The Idea was to pre-visualize the stalls and seating, It was not intended to be photo realistic, but just enough to catch the mood of the occasion and how things would look, that is, the stall facade etc.
The Left represent the traditional Rajasthani stall where as on the right is ultramodern Goa with its seafood.
Completely modelled and rendered in blender using the internal renderer with no ray tracing and ambient occlusion. Only Spots, Lamp and halo.
Image size 1920-1080; time 4 min for seating and 12 min for the stalls.

Blender Pre-visualization

2009-10-08T13:35:00.004+05:30

Again this was part of pre-visualization done for my client; The Phone, Notes, and the Coin were modelled, textured and rendered in Blender. Along with Blender Photoshop was used for touch-up.
The Images were rendered in Blender 2.40 at 1920 by 1080. No raytracying was used, a light rig of 12 lights with 4 extra light for highlight was utilized.

Compiling XSane scanner utility to run from within Gimp_Painter

2009-10-07T14:24:00.000+05:30

Compiling XSane scanner utility to run from within Gimp_Painter

To install XSane do the following
Download XSane from here: http://www.xsane.org/download/xsane-0.997.tar.gz
extract it by saying extract here.
Navigate to the extracted folder: cd Download/xsane-0.997/
do the following

./configure
make
sudo make install

after it has finished the installation, do the following for Gimp to recognize XSane
in the terminal type:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins
Attach your scanner and fire up gimp by typing gimp in the terminal.
In gimp go to file create and you will find XSane there.
Scan and paint using your new Gimp Painter.

That's it happy Gimping.

Compiling Gimp with 'gimp-for-painters'

2009-10-07T14:21:00.001+05:30

How to compile Gimp Painter on Fedora.

Gimp Painter or “gimp-for-painters” basically is a patch that transforms Gimp into a dedicated Painting Canvas. With it you can paint like a pro. But there are no easy ready to use compilation available, so you need to compile this beauty on your own.
To do so, you need to do three things. First you need to download Gimp source files. Second, you need to apply gimp-for-painters patch and third, you need to compile and copy gimp-paint-studio to the compiled gimp configuration folder.
So lets get going.

First and foremost you need to execute steps 1 to 3 as detailed in Compiling Blender2.5 (if you haven't already done so)

As said above, first you need to download Gimp source files. You can download it from: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.6/gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2

Second you download the patch from: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gimp-painter/downloads/41325/gimp-painter--20090715.diff/

Third you download gimp-paint-studio from here: http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/

Now fire up your terminal and create a folder called gimptemp: mkdir gimptemp. Navigate into the newly created folder by typing cd gimptemp. Now copy all the three downloaded files using the file-manager in it. Right click on gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2 and select extract here. This will create a gimp-2.6.7 folder and extract the file into it. You can also extract by typing tar -xjf gimp-2.6.7.tar.bz2 in the terminal.
Now do the following to patch Gimp: (provided that the file gimp-painter—20090715.diff is in the gimptemp folder).
Now do the following:
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cd gimp-2.6.7
patch -p1 < ../gimp-painter--20090715.diff
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This will patch the Gimp source file that you had just extracted in that folder
Now type the following in the terminal:
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./configure CFLAGS='-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops -ffast-math -march=native -mtune=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -funsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing'

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Once done type the following:
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sudo make -j8
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The -j8 flag will use all the available cpu for compiling and this should considerably speed up your compilation time. If you have only a dual cpu, use -j3 and if you only have one cpu just type sudo make.

After it has compiled (hopefully without any errors) its time to install.
Type the following in the terminal
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sudo make install
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Your Gimp Painter is now ready for use, to further enhance its power, its time to install the "gimp-paint-studio" into the gimp configuration folder.
Right click on the downloaded file GPS 1_2_7z.7z or if you downloaded GPS 1_2_winrar.rar from http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/downloads/list and select extract here.
It is a good Idea to download the GPS manual too as well as the videos from the same site.
Now open the newly created folder GPS 1_2 and select and copy everything from there into the.gimp-2.6 folder.
The .gimp-2.6 folder is a hidden folder that resides in your home folder directory. To open it, go to your home folder and press Ctrl+H or view->show hidden files to show this hidden folder. (you can also navigate by typingcd ~/.gimp-2.6 in the terminal).
Double click to open .gimp-2.6 folder and copy everything from GPS 1_2 into it. You can also read the manual for further instructions.

Now that you have installed everything, you can fire-up you new Gimp painter by simply typing gimp in the terminal. Your new Gimp executable should be in the "user/local/bin" folder, so go ahead and create a new launcher for your newly created gimp-painter from the panel or the application menu and now you can launch it by simply clicking its icon.
Alternatively you can open a new terminal and type gimp or cd /usr/local/bin
and then type ./gimp-2.6 and that should fire up you newly compiled gimp painter.

That's it. Enjoy your new Gimp Painter.

Compiling MyPaint

2009-10-07T14:19:00.002+05:30

Martin Renold's "MyPaint" is one of the best thing to happen on Linux and Opensource in general. From a long time, there was no dedicated painting application on linux that can match the power of OpenOffice, Firefox, Blender, Ardour, and Gimp. Krita OK. but it never worked out of the box and usually when it did, you had to compile the whole OS based of KDE to get it to work. But once it did, it was a beauty.

Recently we have seen a lot of effort by independent developers to bring the flow and feel of paint media to the available applications. Gimp painter is such an example. But Gimp is much more then a painting canvas, it is a photo retouching application primarily, though it can be extended and has been extended to do much more than that. On the other hand MyPaint is a minimalist's dream. Like Wings3d, it hides its real power and in return gifts you the whole of your monitor's real estate for your simple joy and pleasure of painting.

To put it simply, MyPaint is a raster based paint engine that aims to simulate real world paint media and pencils, and to achieve this, it provides a fully customizable dynamic brush (painting and brushing engine) which can be tweaked to your hearts content. Now, Inspite of all its technical achievements, It is in fact surprisingly simple and easy to use. So easy that even my cousins 3 years old daughter was painting from the word go. (be careful though with your stylus as they can easily be damaged by kids and the kids in return can easily hurt themselves with it. so stay close to them.)

Also please note that MyPaint does not seek to replace Gimp. But rather works in conjunction with and in return compliments its power and capability's. As you work in it, you will find yourself moving between the two. Allright, time to compile your own MyPaint.

Compiling MyPaint:

Compiling MyPaint is just like typing 123. Just follow these steps and you will see how easy it is to compile it from the daily builds, so that you are always on that cutting edge of development. Compiling daily builds also makes you a collaborator in one sense as you test drive the latest developers copy and if you discover any bugs, you submit a bug report which in return solidifies and strengthens the software.

Step 1: Install the dependency's or just go here: Compiling Blender2.5 and simply copy and paste all of them. (Its a lot to go by even though 'mypaint' only needs a few. But as we will be compiling a whole bunch of advanced multimedia software's, I have gathered all of them together for easy one time install. Later we will compile the whole enterprise class OS with rt kernel all built ground up for speed and performance.) To warn you, I don't have a technical background and don't know any programming, not a bit of it, and so, if I can do it, so can you.

Step 2: Now, fire up the terminal and create a directory "MyPaint" by typing: mkdir MyPaint. Navigate to the just created folder by typing: cd MyPaint.

Step3: Type the following in the terminal to download the latest builds by typing:

git clone git://gitorious.org/mypaint/mypaint.git

Step4: Navigate to the folder mypaint by typing: cd mypaint and type: scons to start the compilation process.

This should create the necessary files needed to run MyPaint. Infact you can now run this beauty by simply typing ./mypaint in the terminal and it should blossom right in front of your eyes, demanding, that you start pouring your dreams instantly onto the canvas and have it all magically transformed into reality by the spirit of your creativity.

You can now create a launcher to run the program from its default compiled location and run it from there.

To install do the following.

sudo scons prefix=/usr/local install

Now you should get an icon/link in your Application/Graphics menu.

You can also run it by typing mypaint in the terminal or create a launcher on your desktop or panel for quick start.

That's it, enjoy painting :)

The Danger of Over Optimizing Blender

2009-10-07T14:17:00.001+05:30

Recently one of the studios wanted me to rig, animate and render a train model that they had purchased. The project was supposed to be done on Houdini, but I insisted that It can be done faster in Blender. Any way I did some render test to compare Blender's Internal renderer with Houdini's Mantra and Mantra was way fast, so I tried some compilation tricks to optimize blender as much as possible with surprising results. I was getting almost the same speed as Mantra which is an Enterprise class renderer comparable to Renderman and its like.

But speed is gained at the cost of subtle artifacts.

Here are the comparison of the two renders. One is rendered with slightly optimized build and the other with aggressively optimized build with -fastmath and all that.

My render times were like this: (Mantra 59 seconds)

1 ] With Blender from the Blender foundation: Rendering time 1 minute 31 seconds.

2 ] With optimized compile : Rendering time 1 minute 14 seconds

3 ] With highly optimized build : Rendering time 1 minute 3 seconds

Between one and two there was no difference in quality.

But between two and there, you start seeing the dreaded artifacts.

Here are the images from two and three. Watch the clips closely. Its not that hard and you will instantly catch several artifacts. some glaringly obvious. (Ignore the Jpeg Artifacts as I have compressed it for net, but the artifacts that I am speaking about are not Jpeg or any compression artifact, they are urrrrm very obvious)

Without: Without Errors

Errors: With Errors

How to Gamma Calibrate your Monitor for 3d and Compositing work on Linux.

2009-10-07T14:16:00.001+05:30

Gamma is the key to highend colorcorrection and color grading. It is the most secret of secrets and knowing or not knowing about breaks or makes a compositors carrier.

On the other hand calibrating your monitor is actually quite simple. All you need is compile and install Monica or GammaPage and use the notes that comes with it. Calibrating the color of the clip to match the color grade of the human gamma scale needs a color grading software and has nothing to do with monitor gamma directly cause most monitor cannot show all the grades and so all transformations happens in mathmatical space. Nevertheless withought a gamma calibrated monitor you are much more in the dark and it is very dangerous to work with high color Films and clips on an unclibrated monitor. AND THIS IS A WARNING.

To download the monica or gammapage source click here. Monica GammaPage.

Uncompress and extract the source

Navigate to its folder and simply type:

make

and

make install

Now you can run monica by simply typing monica in the terminal.

Now comes the tough part.

If your minotor allows, then set it to 6500K.

Now fire up the calibrater by typing monica in the terminal.

You will see 4 windows on the top (Luma and RGB) and a Gamma scale chart below them.

Adjusting you monitor Gamma means simply adjusting the slider till the lines in the Gamma chart almost flattens.

The best way to do it is by sitting parallel about 2 metre to the monitor eyelevel (change of eyelevel affects gamma so keep that in mind)

Now start adjusting the sliders till the difference in (Gamma scale chart) grades dissapear or atleast merge. On a good monitor they will almost flaten. But if it doesnot, no problem, just get it as close as possible and then hit exit and save.

Repeat these steps on other monitors so that you get consistent gamma level always on all workstation.

GammaPage is even simpler to run. simply download, extract and in the terminal run: python setup.py install

For example if you have extracted it in: /home/username/Installers/gammapage-0.5.1/ type cd /home/username/Installers/gammapage-0.5.1 to navigate to its folder.

then simply type: sudo python setup.py install

It will build and install the application. Now all you have to so is type: GAMMApage and it will launch the application.

Follow the steps above as you did with monica.

Click on the Help button at the bottm for getting a hang on what it is doing.

There is a good discussion on the topic at: When to apply gamma correction?

Also visit the wiki and download and read this pdf

Some of the Good books to start understanding linear and logarithmic color space and what every 3d artist and a compositior should know.

The Art and Science of Digital Compositing. Second Edition. Ron Brinkmann (recomended)

Digital Compositing for Film and Video. Second Edition. Steve Wright

Compiling Cinelerra

2009-10-07T14:09:00.001+05:30

Compiling Production ready Nonlinear Editor

Blender itself boast one of the finest compositors as well as a full fledged NLE which happens to be surprisingly steady even for long form edits. But many users who come from Premiere and Avid background find blender’s non-traditional work-flow a bit tedious, though it is still your best bet when you have to edit in one of those big formats like OpenEXR and others. Believe me, there is nothing like Blender or even Cinelerra when it comes to the big formats and pure 64 bit editing on a multiprocessor ready machine loaded with 8gb of ram. (I am exaggerating a bit, but it is also true in one sense)

Blender is rapidly becoming the darling of open-source community. All credits goes to Ton, a Zen like mature Jedi Master who also happens to be a born leader. On the other hand, Cinelerra has not seen the flocking that blender has experienced over the years inspite of the great sacrifices committed by Heroine Warrior to get this master piece to the world of open-source. Nevertheless I have worked on it and it is quite stable and versatile. Some of its effects as better than what Adobe Premiere and even what AfterEffects has to offer, for example it has an excellent De-interlace filter and excellent color-correcter that works in floating point and grants instant white balance. It has instant save and almost total recover in the case of a crash. It has a motion tracker and animated spline or vector mask like the one in afterfx (though not as advance) add background rendering and built in support for a rendering farm crunching 2K and 4K resolution in pure 32bit floating point color space and you have at your fingertip the power to match and finish any film in any format you could imagine. The problem is that Cinelerra inspite of its potential and proven record (by in-house production houses) has not attracted the right kind of OpenSource enthusiasts and its developments has stagnated over the years. If only it can attracts good coders, these little things that it lacks can easily be enhanced to match the industry standards.

The lack of Capture cards (though you can write your own drivers for one and Aja Kona supports Linux directly as Industry greats like Flame, Smoke and others rely primarily on Linux and Aja for their video needs, thus Kona can be made to run on Linux as done by some independent production companies and doing so has its advantage as Kona transforms Cinelerra into a pure 64bit HD crunching machine. To top that Blackmagic Decklink now has Linux drivers and has promised a superb capture and playback utility and to quote them “With Media Express 2.0 on Linux, it’s possible to build a very powerful and low cost creative workstation for broadcasters and post production customers who want to take advantage of the emerging creative tools on the Linux platform.” ) On the other hand for not so fancy user such as us, Cinelerra is not so intuitive when it comes to capture videos and so most Linux users depend on Kino for DV and DV-Grab for Hdv capture. This is not a problem as Kino has an excellent capture module and almost matches Scenalyzer Live in its capability's and also provides an excellent color correcter and one can in no time quickly assemble a rough edit.
Infact you can assemble a rough edit faster than what you can do in Avid or Finalcutpro. Once you are satisfied with your rough edit, the files can then be imported into Cinelerra for fine-tuning and audio splicing.

Any way lets not waste our time and quickly compile our own latest builds. (I am using Fedora 10)

Follow the Steps 1 to 3 as shown in Compiling Blender2.5

Step4

In the terminal type

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mkdir Cinelerra

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Step5

Continue in the terminal by typing cd Cinelerra navigating to the newly created directory Cinelerra and get the latest build on to your system by typing as follows:

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cd Cinelerra

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and

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git clone git://git.cinelerra.org/j6t/cinelerra.git cinelerra
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Step6

You will notice that it has created a directory cinelerra under the present Cinelerra directory. Now its time to navigate into it by typing:

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cd cinelerra

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and run

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./autogen.sh

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Step7

This is a crucial step so do it right. Once inside the cinelerra directory, type the following, or simply copy and past there and hit enter to run.

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 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-opengl CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -march=native -mtune=native -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse'

Step8

Once it has configured the make file, without any errors, it is time to compile this Beast
(also note that the -j8 works best for quad processors and -j3 for dual. You don't need this option on a single processor machine so you may simply type 'make' but if your are one of those who has the latest quadcore's do the following.)

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make -j8
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Step9

Allow make to complete its job, (hopefully without any errors)and once done, Its time to install this Baby
Type these in the terminal and press enter

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sudo make install
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or
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su
(your password)
make install
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This will install Cinelerra on the disk and an Icon will appear on Application Sound and Video Menu

Step10

Type this and enter (need to be done only once)

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ldconfig
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Step11

Do this to remove the nag before you start Cinelerra but it is not necessary.

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su

(your password)

echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

exit

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If you want to remove the above message permanently, so the following:
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

and at the end of this file add these following lines

kernel/shmmax=0x7fffffff

Save the file, close the text editor and then type sudo sysctl -p
It should now hopefully be permanently gone.

In Cinelerra navigate to Settings, Go to Preferences and in Playback Audio Driver select ESound and set port to 7007

In the Video Driver section on the bottom chose X11-XV or if you happen to do a lot of masking and perspective jobs, try X11-OpenGL. Usually X11-XV works well for most of your needs.

That's it. Enjoy video editing.

PleaseNote: Also you will greatly benefit by using this utility "IMG2LIST - Cinelerra List Generator" in conjunction to Blenders output. My regards goes to Claudio "Malefico" Andaur for this wonderful utility.

Compiling Blender

2009-10-07T13:54:00.000+05:30

Step1

First and foremost activate the necessary repositories by opening the terminal.

type su

supply the password

and now you are in the root ready to install all the necessary things.

Step2

In the root (terminal) type

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rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

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and then

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rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY

Step3

To install the build dependencies: Type in the terminal or simply copy and paste this and press enter

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sudo yum install scons make subversion gcc gcc-c++ gcc-objc++ kino kino-devel dvgrab a52dec-devel a52dec alsa-lib-devel alsa-lib faac-devel faac faad2-libs faad2-devel faad2 fftw-devel fftw-static fftw fftw2-devel fftw2 lame-devel lame-libs lame twolame twolame-devel twolame-libs libavc1394-devel libavc1394 libiec61883-utils libiec61883 libiec61883-devel libraw1394-devel libraw1394 libsndfile libsndfile-devel libvorbis-devel libvorbis libogg-devel libogg liboggz-devel liboggz libpng-devel libpng libpng10-devel libpng10 libjpeg-devel libjpeg libjpeg-static libtiff-devel libtiff libtiff-static tritonus-esd esound-devel esound-libs freetype-devel freetype freetype-freeworld freetype1-devel freetype1 freetype1-utils mjpegtools-libs mjpegtools-devel mjpegtools y4mscaler OpenEXR-devel OpenEXR x264-libs x264 x264-devel gettext-devel gettext gettext-libs automake autoconf libtool libdv-devel libdv amrnb-devel amrnb amrwb-tools binutils-devel binutils arm-gp2x-linux-binutils mingw32-binutils gsm gsm-devel yasm zlib-devel bzip2-devel dbus-glib-devel hal-devel libnotify-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel gstreamer-plugins-bad-devel gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good-devel gstreamermm-devel gstream-devel SDL-devel libzip libzip-devel ftgl ftgl-devel ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel ffmpeg-libs freealut openal openal-soft openal-soft-devel AllegroOGG ode ode-devel libXi libXi-devel libsamplerate libsamplerate-devel jack-audio-connection-kit jack-audio-connection-kit-devel xine-lib-extras qjackctl mplayer avidemux transcode audacious vnc mesa-libGL-devel libX11-devel libtheora libtheora-devel xvidcore xvidcore-devel gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree vlc mencoder xine xine-lib libdvdcss ntfs-3g libdvdnav libdvdnav-devel totem-xine xine-lib-extras-freeworld kernel-devel kernel-headers libdvdread libdvdread-devel WebKit-gtk WebKit-gtk-devel aubio-devel boost-devel cwiid-devel desktop-file-utils gtkmm24-devel libcurl-devel libgnomecanvas-devel libgnomecanvasmm26-devel liblo-devel liblrdf-devel libsamplerate-devel libusb-devel libxslt-devel pkgconfig slv2-devel soundtouch-devel hicolor-icon-theme expat-devel flac-devel ladspa-devel libid3tag-devel vamp-plugin-sdk-devel zip libmad-devel openssl-devel python-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel libGL-devel libGLU-devel openjpeg-devel qhull-devel shared-mime-info dejavu-fonts shadow-utils aalib-devel babl-devel cairo-devel curl-devel fontconfig-devel gegl-devel glib2-devel gnome-keyring-devel gnome-vfs2-devel gtk2-devel gtk+ gtk+-devel gegl GConf2-gtk gtk-doc gtkhtml2-devel libexif-devel libgnomeui-devel libjpeg-devel libmng-devel librsvg2-devel libwmf-devel pango-devel poppler-glib-devel poppler-devel pygtk2-devel pygobject2-devel enchant enchant-devel libXmu-devel xorg-x11-server-devel sed intltool findutils lcms-devel gimp-libs glib2 gtk2 pango fontconfig gutenprint gutenprint-plugin gimp-print-plugin pygtk2 xml2 xdg-utils doxygen readline-devel ncurses-devel autoconf automake libfreebob-devel gimp-devel-tools gimp-devel fftw3-devel gtkglext glew gtkglext-devel glew-devel e2fsprogs audiofile nasm git libXt-devel libXv-devel libXxf86vm-devel libXext-devel libuuid e2fsprogs-devel python-numdisplay protobuf-python protobuf protobuf-compiler protobuf-devel fltk fltk-devel

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Now it should install all the needed dependencies for a proper compilation.

These next steps are crucial and so follow them closely.

Step4

Now do the following (as blender2.5 requires pythom 3.1). Go to the python site and download the source 3.1 tar.bz2 or tar.gz file to the download folder.

Navigate to the download folder in the terminal

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cd /home/your-user-name/Download

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type

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tar -zxvf Python-3.1.tar.gz2

or if you have downloaded the other

tar -xjvf Python-3.1.tar.bz2

It will create a directory Python-3.1 with the necessary files.

cd into the folder Python-3.1

cd Python-3.1

Now its time to compile, so just type

./configure

It will create a make file. Once done type

make

And if everything went as expected, you can now install by typing

sudo make install

su (give your password when asked and)

make install

Thats it

Step5

Open a new terminal and create a folder ‘Blender2.5’ in the default home directory by typing

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mkdir Blender2.5

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To enter the folder

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cd Blender2.5

Step6

Once inside the folder copy and paste these and then press enter

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svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender

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It will now create a folder ‘blender’ inside your newly created ‘Blender2.5” directory and copy the latest (daily alpha development builds) into that folder

Step7

next type

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cd blender

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This will take you into the (daily build) blender directory.

Now do the following

Create a “user-config.py” in a text editor and place the file in the blender directory (same place where SConstruct resides), that is the /home/your-user-name/Blender2.5/blender/

Paste these in the 'user-config.py' and save

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BF_NUMJOBS = '4'
WITH_BF_OPENMP = 'true'
WITH_BF_SNDFILE = 'true'
WITH_BF_OPENAL = 'true'
WITH_BF_JACK = 'true'
WITH_BF_SDL = 'true'
WITH_BF_OPENEXR = 'true'
WITH_BF_DDS = 'true'
WITH_BF_JPEG = 'true'
WITH_BF_PNG = 'true'
WITH_BF_ZLIB = 'true'
WITH_BF_BULLET = 'true'
WITH_BF_OGG = 'true'
WITH_BF_FFTW3 = 'true'
WITH_BF_OPENJPEG = 'true'
WITH_BF_REDCODE = 'true'
WITH_BF_OPENGL = 'true'
BF_OPENGL='/usr/lib64'
BF_OPENGL_LIBPATH = '/usr/lib64'
BF_OPENGL_LIBPATH = '${BF_OPENGL}/usr/lib64'

BF_PYTHON='/usr/local'
#BF_PYTHON_LIBPATH = "${BF_PYTHON}/lib/python3.1'
BF_PYTHON_LIBPATH = '${BF_PYTHON}/lib'
BF_PYTHON_VERSION = '3.1'
WITH_BF_STATICPYTHON = False
BF_PYTHON_INC = '${BF_PYTHON}/include/python${BF_PYTHON_VERSION}'
BF_PYTHON_BINARY = '${BF_PYTHON}/bin/python${BF_PYTHON_VERSION}'
BF_PYTHON_LIB = 'python${BF_PYTHON_VERSION}' #BF_PYTHON+'/lib/python'+BF_PYTHON_VERSION+'/config/libpython'+BF_PYTHON_VERSION+'.a'
BF_PYTHON_LINKFLAGS = ['-Xlinker', '-export-dynamic']
BF_PYTHON_LIB_STATIC = '${BF_PYTHON}/lib/libpython${BF_PYTHON_VERSION}.a'

CCFLAGS = ['-pipe','-fPIC','-march=athlon64','-msse','-msse2','-msse3','-mssse3','-mmmx','-mfpmath=sse','-funsigned-char','-fno-strict-aliasing']
CXXFLAGS = ['-pipe','-fPIC','-march=athlon64','-msse','-msse2','-msse3','-mssse3','-mmmx','-mfpmath=sse','-funsigned-char','-fno-strict-aliasing']
REL_CFLAGS = ['-O3','-fomit-frame-pointer','-funroll-loops']
REL_CCFLAGS = ['-O3','-fomit-frame-pointer','-funroll-loops']

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You can now type ‘scons‘ and it should start compiling your own blender2.5.

Once the compilation is over, it will create two folders in the Blender directory. ‘build’ and ‘install’. So now you have three folders there ‘blender’ ‘build’ and ‘install’

Your new blender will be in the ‘install’ folder.

Step8

To navigate to this folder do this

Type cd ~/Blender2.5

and then cd /install/linux2/

This will take you to the new blender2.5 build

To run blender type ./blender

Thats It, enjoy the new Blender.

Opensource Platform

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वृत्र (The DarkWhite) is being Produced Completely on Open Source Platform. For most of our needs we are using a recompiled Fedora10rt (CCRMA) with the following software.

Graphic Frontend:

Blender
Gimp
Inkscape
Krita
MyPaint
Pencil
Cinelerra
Kino
and possibly

Audio Frontend:

Ardour
Audacity
Cinelerra
Rosegarden
Ladspa
Jack
Jamin
LinuxSampler

No post yet?

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We will be posting something relevent soon

Contribute, Donate, Share

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Neymlus is a tribute to Gandhi's insight into the fabric of out times and it tries to capture the unsaid in Mahatma Gandhi's little but forgotten booklet: "Hind Swaraj" thru strange and ghostly stories that hide and reveal the hidden and the mysterious behind the obvious and common.
The film uses eerie and exotic metaphors to plot Gandhi's encounter with the spirit of technology, and is being produced using Open Source Software and Fundings

So, check out the trailers that we will be posting from time to time. Download few of our wallpapers and if you have time, go through our progress blog and if you still feel like contributing in some manner to the project, please feel free to contact us.

Contributions don't always have to be financial. On the other hand, contributions that really make our day are like the one gifted to us by my 11 year old daughter Anagha who is donating a 3d model of a clay cart which she is presently modeling in blender. She has also promised us several trees and some rocks.
You can also support us by donating some new or used equipments that we can put to use in the making of this 3d animated film.
Naturally all contributions get mentioned in the 'produced and funded by' section of the film.

Again, by all means, feel free to contact us, and thanks for your interest and support.

Contributors List

Production Assets

Anagha: 3d model of clay cart, toy bird.
Shashwat: 3d train model, several houses, trees etc.

Financial Support

Sanjay Kumar

Prateek Kumar

Abhay Kapoor

Rajiv Gupta

Hello World

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Hello World. This is 'Shashwat'

Wallpapers

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Thanks for visiting our site.
We are in the process of creating some strange, and ghostly wallpapers, which I am sure will reflect your liking and endless fascination for the otherworldly and the mysterious.
Please return in a few days and I am sure we will have something to gift.

Contact: OpenForm

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Rajiv Mudgal
B 105 Vardhaman Apartment,
Mayur Vihar phase 1 ext,
Delhi – 110091,
India.

Email: mail@openform.in

Trailer

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We hope to release the first teaser by November end.
Please stay tuned.

Meanwhile enjoy some of the new and some very old stuff done by us @ http://vimeo.com/user717388

Pictures

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Download

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Tutorials

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Compiling XSane scanner utility to run from within Gimp
How to Gamma Calibrate your Monitor for 3d and Compositing work on Linux.
Compiling Kino and HandBrake
Compiling Gimp with 'gimp-for-painters'
Compiling MyPaint
Compiling Cinelerra
Compiling Blender