Been playing with Ed Halleys build up animation script:

Susan Ward:
http://www.youtube.com/v/GsBXcmyfFgM

Ford GR-1 Concept
http://www.youtube.com/v/d0zD-owNRr0

Pretty kewl. It's a great way to illustrate how some drawings are put together. I wouldn't mind doing this with a couple of mine. Has the script been posted publicly?

yeah, its on halley.cc

if you go to
http://www.halley.cc/code/

you'll need:
svgbuild.py
vectors.py
interpolations.py

you may need to edit the variables at the start of svgbuild.py so it points at your install of inkscape.
The version he has up there now has a good description of what you do to use the script, I'm using
ffmpeg to create the movie from the pngs just like he describes.

Great drawings! And of course nice way to show how they're done

willemmulder wrote:Great drawings! And of course nice way to show how they're done

Thanks! the script does show em off pretty well

where do you draw with? A tablet?
And do you draw just by fantasy or with some reference picture, and if so: is the reference-picture a layer or is it just a picture on your desk

I draw them mostly with a tablet, some were done with a mouse when i didnt have access to a tablet.
Their all from reference, and yeah, on a layer not on the desk

Hey!

I'm a bit late to the party but do you have instructions for making this work in Ubuntu 9.10 with Inkscape pre4?

I changed the first line of svgbuild.py from #!/opt/local/bin/python to #! /usr/bin/python, which solves the problem of it not finding python. However, when running it I still get this message:


Any python people out there who can help?

Try adding

import subprocess

after the other import statements.

Thanks! I got a reply from the script author too saying the same thing.

(also sent to the script author)
I added that line and now the script runs, but frames of the movie don't output. Here's my output after running ./svgbuild.py --path --text antonio2.svg :



The temp svg is created in the movie directory and if I specify a location for the frames to be created then it still does create that directory.

I've tried with files with lots of shapes and few shapes and still no output and also with plain svg's and Inkscape svg's.

Edit the script to set the correct path for Inkscape binary.

How does one do this? Probably would need a bit more information than that

change the line that says

inkscape = 'C:\\SVG\\head\\inkscape\\inkscape.exe'

so that the bit in quotes points to a working inkscape.

Hey guys, I'm happy to see what people are doing with my SVGBUILD script. Great artwork! I noticed the mention of 'import subprocess' above, and have made a couple other very minor tweaks in a code review today. I'll post the updated version to the server tonight.