Today I picked up something called a Snowflake USB microphone by Blue in hopes of improving the sound quality of my screencasts. And while I haven't had a chance to fully test it, I can say two things: First, it's a very significant improvement on the sound I was getting from my Logitech USB headset. [...]

Okay so it's been about 5 months since I last posted a Blender screencast. Guilty as charged. Let's move on.
I've posted my third screencast about editing video using Blender. This one is a quickie at about 9 minutes in length. It covers a few very useful keyboard commands along with an introduction to using the [...]

A few weeks back I did my first Blender screencast showing how to do a few simple things with video using Blender. In that one we covered editing and joining clips, fading between clips and exporting our video. In this second screencast I cover how to fade into and out to black, add a simple [...]

A little while ago, Heathenx and I decided to investigate the use of Blender for editing video. I've played around with Kino, Kdenlive, and Cinelerra among other things for basic video editing on Linux, none of them has worked for me as well as Blender. If there is one area where Linux currently falls short, [...]

About a week ago, one of our faithful screencast viewers zombiebrainz had a great idea and created a Flickr group as a place for people to post their inkscape work. This was done so that people could show off what they were working on with or without the help of our screencasts.
It's turning out to [...]

Episode 069 is now posted. In this one I create an Airline Safety Card style illustration from a photo. Phew.. that was a mouthful.
This one went suprisingly long, I tried to go quickly through the slightly tedious parts, but I think it went pretty well. Hope you enjoy it.

It's high time I get off my duff and get the focus back. And that not only means blogging more than once a month here, but in a few other areas as well.
I figure the best way to get this thing back on the rails is to plunk down a post that at least lists [...]

Episode 065 is up. In this one I create some LCD digits from scratch and demonstrate the use of grids and grid snapping along the way.
I really thought this one would be short. But somehow it managed to get to the 17 or 18 minute mark. These things always end up being longer than they [...]

I've just finished and uploaded Episode 064. This screencast demonstrates the use of Inkscape's Object->Clip->Set function for some creative bitmap masking.
Head over there to watch or download the episode and check out any of the other 63 episodes we've done so far.
Happy Canada Day tomorrow everybody!

Episode 061 is now up. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a pseudo-realistic looking recycle bin type object. It could be useful for someone wanting to create icons perhaps. It only took 7 or 8 objects to create and demonstrates how some subtle uses of gradients and blurs can help get the effect [...]