Thibaut and Ken Interview David Revoy the artist behind the Pepper and Carrot.

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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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(2019_film )

Cosmos Laundromat

Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle, developed under the code name Project Gooseberry, is 2015 animated absurdist science fantasy short film directed by Mathieu Auvray, written by Esther Wouda, and produced by Ton Roosendaal. It is the Blender Institute's 5th "open movie" project, and was made utilizing the Blender software. The film focuses around a depressed and suicidal sheep named Franck who is offered "all the lives he ever wanted" by a mysterious salesman named Victor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_Laundromat

Tears of Steel

Tears of Steel (code-named Project Mango) is a short science fiction film by producer Ton Roosendaal and director/writer Ian Hubert. The film is both live-action and CGI; it was made using new enhancements to the visual effects capabilities of Blender, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics app. Set in a dystopian future, the short film features a group of warriors and scientists who gather at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in a desperate attempt to save the world from destructive robots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_Steel

Sintel

Sintel (code-named Project Durian during production) is a 2010 animated fantasy short film. It was the third Blender "open movie". It was produced by Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation, written by Esther Wouda, directed by Colin Levy, at the time an artist at Pixar and art direction by David Revoy, who is known for Pepper&Carrot, a free and open source webcomic series.[3] It was made at the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The plot follows the character, Sintel, who is tracking down her pet Scales, a dragon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintel

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha. Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classical 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with elements of Hong Kong martial arts films. Dragon Ball characters also use a variety of East Asian martial arts styles, including karate[1][2][3] and Wing Chun (kung fu).[2][3][4] The series follows the adventures of protagonist Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts. He spends his childhood far from civilization until he meets a teenage girl named Bulma, who encourages him to join her quest in exploring the world in search of the seven orbs known as the Dragon Balls, which summon a wish-granting dragon when gathered. Along his journey, Goku makes several other friends, becomes a family man, discovers his alien heritage, and battles a wide variety of villains, many of whom also seek the Dragon Balls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball

Links

• https://www.davidrevoy.com/
• https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/about/index.html
• Pepper and Carrot Episode 1
• https://www.youtube.com/@DavidRevoy
• https://framagit.org/Deevad
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