Open Source Creative Production

Jason van Gumster (@monsterjavaguns)

(This is a slide archive, you can view the original talk, given at SELF 2015, on YouTube)

HALT!

Who goes there?

Quick pause:

Anyone else in the room do creative work with Free and Open Source software?

Where are open source creative tools now?

Workhorses:

Blender

blender.org

Inkscape

inkscape.org

(image credit: Gilles Pinard)

GIMP

gimp.org

Krita

krita.org

(image credit: David Revoy)

Audacity

audacityteam.org

VLC

videolan.org/vlc

(image credit: Blender Institute)

But that's just the start of it

Writing/Publishing

Scribus

scribus.net

Calibre

calibre-ebook.com

Sigil

sigil-ebook.com

Celtx

celtx.com

Trelby

trelby.org

Illustration

MyPaint

mypaint.intilinux.com

Video/Post

Kdenlive

kdenlive.org

OpenShot

openshot.org

Shotcut

shotcut.org

Natron

natron.inria.fr

Audio

Ardour

ardour.org

Qtractor

qtractor.sourceforge.net

Rosegarden

rosegardenmusic.com

MuseSCore

musescore.org

Hydrogen

hydrogen-music.org

3D Printing

MeshLab

meshlab.sourceforge.net

ReplicatorG

replicat.org

And there's more

But not enough time...

Butt...

There always is one

No, these programs aren't perfect

But that's not the point.

They don't have to be

It's absolutely possible to go from

Concept Finished, Polished Product

using only Free and Open Source software

More importantly...

It's not that weird

Let me modify that...

I'm not that weird

Questions?

Look me up

Jason van Gumster

Website: monsterjavaguns.com
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