kagestudio on Discord

2025-12-29T08:50:40.126000Z

You got Discord account? Come join the kagestudio Discord server at https://discord.gg/hebRgUMUM3

Let's talk about the project you've been working on, or difficulties you are facing that I may be able to help with. I will also post bits and pieces of any progress on the 0.9 release that I've been working for over a year now (and a demo project I've been working on with someone on our free time)

~creek23

Kage Studio featured on FileCR

2025-03-27T05:54:43.163000Z

FileCR, who hosts and/or mirrors tons of software downloads on their website, has written an article about Kage Studio.

I like what they said about Kage Studio, "the free and open-source nature of this (Kage Studio) ensures that creative expression knows no bounds". As you may have noticed, I've somewhat started adopting Inkscape's tagline "Draw Freely!" with Kage Studio's "Animate Freely!"

Read what FileCR has to say about Kage Studio on their website.

Some items to clarify:
* Kage Studio is Free and Open Source Software -- not freeware. With open source, you can obtain the source code, study it, make sure it's not doing malicious activities to your computer. Freeware, on the other hand, only provides the compiled binary, which may or may not do harm to your computer.
* The article mentioned that Kage Studio offers "range of brush and pencil tools", if they meant Oval tool, Rectangle tool, Poly tool, and Pencil Tool, which you can preset any thickness and any color, then yes.
* The System Requirements section only mentioned Windows to the Operating System. Kage Studio is generally offered with DEB package for GNU/Linux, and zipped pre-compiled binary for MacOS.

That said, we still highly recommend downloading Kage Studio from Sourceforge, or download the source code (again, from SourceForge) then compile it yourself.

~creek23

Disclaimer: This is the first time I've heard of FileCR. Their article was not sponsored by Kage Studio. This article is not in any way, shape or form a recommendation for FileCR.

Codename Emcee

2025-03-12T07:45:34.305000Z

Version 0.8.240824 (codename Emcee)
- Installer for 64bit Windows
- Installer for 64bit Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux
- Package for MacOS is pending but should be on its way within this month

A Zipped Windows Portable is also available, and the source code is always available on SourceForge's SVN.

Emcee, like Ellen, is a special version between v0.8 and v0.9, still dedicated to my wife -- it packs another milestone feature for Kage Studio.

With codename Emcee, Kage Studio now supports importing SVG into your animation. And once imported, you can manipulate the SVG's colors, rotate, resize, reshape, and animate!

Yes! Imagine animating your Inkscape illustration either Frame-by-Frame or via Tweening! Then, export your animated Inkscape illustration anywhere from HTML5 canvas, to Game Sprite, to any video format that the YouTube, Vimeo, or Instagram use!

Don't worry about which video size the internet use, Kage Studio will provide you a template of Video dimension and frame rate that are compatible with most video hosting services on the internet.

I know Kage Studio's illustration tools are very primitive, and sadly, that could stay for a foreseeable future, that's why Kage Studio started supporting the exporting of SVG first, so you can take advantage of Inkscape's illustration/manipulation tool -- as Inkscape's tagline say, Draw Freely! And then, import your Inkscape illustration into Kage Studio to, ahem, shall we say, Animate Freely!

Imagine cars moving behind your animation. The sky. The mountain. A plane. Just get that ready-made Inkscape SVG illustration and animate like crazy with Kage Studio!

If you already have an Inkscape SVG illustration and wanted to know how to animate it on Kage Studio, headover to Youtube to a Kage Studio tutorial.

Quick disclaimer: Kage Studio's SVG import doesnt support advanced SVG features like gradient, blur, shadow, masking, or shape modifiers like union, intersection, etc. At least, not yet. As a workaround, apply the shape modifier to your shapes so it becomes a flattened Path that Kage Studio can easily import.

Codename Emcee packs three feature requests, four fixes, and nine improvements.

~creek23

Changelog:
* Implemented Request #96 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/96/
* Implemented Request #150 - https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/150/
* Implemented Request #189 - https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/189/
* Fixed Issue #198 (again) -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/198/
* Fixed Issue #200 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/200/
* Fixed Issue #201 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/201/
* Fixed Issue #202 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/202/
* improved handling of unsaved work
* fix on SVG export
* implemented Mouse Cursor on Pencil and Move tool
* implemented SVG-layer visible=false
* updated assetManager based on Undo/Redo state
* improved parseColorString
* improved StringHelper to validate string input to numeric
* added StringHelper::isScientificNotation to support SVG Import
* fixed minor typo error
* minor code cleanup

2000 Downloads!

2024-03-16T06:56:56.937000Z

We've hit 2000 Downloads Milestone!!! -- that's 1000 downloads in just 8months!

Thank you!
~creek23

v0.8 update

2024-02-26T07:04:25.070000Z

Version 0.8.240224
- Installer for 64bit Windows
- Installer for 64bit Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux
- Zipped MacOS Portable for Mac Intel

A Zipped Windows Portable is also available, and a Zipped Source Code, which is always available on SourceForge's SVN.

Above is a quick demo of what Kage Studio can do -- you can create a cutout-style animation, as well as import images which can be used as backgrounds.

As much as I'd like to tag this as minor update, it's not -- this update contains 4 fixes to bugs that would have prevented you from using Kage Studio. All of these bugs were introduced by the major re-write of Undo/Redo functionality.

Download Kage Studio v0.8 update and turn that imagination into animation then feel free tag me or Kage Studio on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, or Instagram.

~creek23

Changelog:
* Fixed Issue #196 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/196/
* Fixed Issue #197 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/197/
* Fixed Issue #198 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/198/
* Fixed Issue #199 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/199/
* minor code cleanup

Kage v0.8 released!

2024-02-13T06:52:56.351000Z

Version 0.8.240210
- Installer for 64bit Windows
- Installer for 64bit Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux
- Zipped MacOS Portable for Mac Intel

A Zipped Windows Portable is also available, and a Zipped Source Code, which is always available on SourceForge's SVN.

The first obvious change is Kage Studio's new nocturnal-friendly interface, which you can toggle via View -> Toggle Dark Theme.

Second, is the addition of Scene, located along Layer and Timeline Pane. This will allow you to manage your animation better by splitting the shots into multiple Scenes then focus on animating shot after shot.

The major change is lying under the hood -- a major rewrite of Undo/Redo functionality! This is to allow Undo and Redo of changes made in any Frame, from any Layer, and any Scene; including renaming, re-ordering, deletion, and addition of Frames, Layers, and Scenes -- yes, you can undo deletion of Frame, Layer, and Scene! How great is that? This much needed rewrite was four years in the making. Like previous versions, the Undo Stack is still not capped -- let's see how much Undo will it be able to stack before performance issue is observed. Be sure to provide your feedback on the forums.

A feature worth noting is the added ability to apply Alpha on imported Image -- this will allow you to do fade-in and fade out, or simply employ a translucent smoke, sky, etc.

Minor changes are widening of the default Stage size from 600p to 720p -- but 800x600 will be back once Ticket 180 is implemented. Of course nothing stops you from setting the State area on Properties Pane. And widening of Frames UI from 8px to 12px -- this came about when I was trying out a display tablet and realized the Frame UI was too small to select on a particular frame on Timeline Pane. The height was good enough but the width requires widening so that's been taken cared of.

Now, go download Kage Studio v0.8! And when you'll be posting your work online, feel free tag me or Kage Studio on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, or Instagram.

~creek23

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Codename Ellen

2023-07-27T07:55:07.175000Z

Version 0.7.230723 (codename Ellen)
- Installer for 64bit Windows
- Installer for 64bit Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux
- App for MacOS:

A Zipped Windows Portable is also available, and the source code is always available on SourceForge's SVN.

Ellen is a special version between v0.7 and v0.8, dedicated to my wife -- it packs a milestone feature for Kage Studio.

With codename Ellen, Kage Studio now supports loading of PNG into your animation. It fully supports moving the image around the stage which you can tween -- imagine cars moving behind your animation. The sky. The mountain. A plane. Just get that ready-made PNG image and animate like crazy with Kage Studio.

It also supports rotating the image and partially supports scaling of image -- although still problematic but workable, nonetheless.

Ellen happened because last month, June 2023, I started a collab with Gayumamela creator, Art DeLata, to create a teaser for his manga.

With previous state of Kage Studio, I will either have to re-create Gayumamela art without gradients and blurs, or implement Image-handling on Kage Studio so I can use the actual Gayumamela art. So, yes, I picked the path to least resistance... implement Image-handling inside Kage Studio. :D and before the end of June, I can already tween an image across the Stage.

Codename Ellen packs four fixes and over twenty-three feature requests.

~creek23

Headover to Youtube to watch the teaser for Gayumamela.

[DEVLOG] v0.7 minor update

2023-01-03T05:04:21.817000Z

Had few hiccups for v0.7 initial release -- the build was buggy.

Raised 3 tickets to describe the problem which were all fixed right away.
- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/134/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/135/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/136/

Instead of releasing v0.7b, previous v0.7 was overwritten with corrections for above bugs.

Get the new one over at Downloads page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/latest/download

Sorry for the inconvenience.

~creek23

Kage v0.7 released!

2022-12-29T06:49:55.950000Z

Version 0.7.x series achieved!
- Installer for 64bit Windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio-0.7.221227_win64.exe/download
- Installer for 64bit Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio_0.7-221227_amd64.deb/download
- Zipped Binary for MacOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio_v0.7.221227_mac.zip/download

Zipped source code is also available which you can browse online: https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/code/HEAD/tree/studio/

This release packs four fixes -- three of which are major changes under the hood with its Zoom functionality -- wrapping up v0.6.x for a total of 11 resolved tickets.

~creek23

Changelog:
- Fixed Issue #21 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/21/
- Fixed Issue #22 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/22/
- Fixed Issue #23 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/23/
- Fixed Issue #132 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/132/
- minor code cleanup

Kage v0.6.220919 released!

2022-09-21T21:00:25.367000Z

Second maintenance release for 0.6!
Windows Installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio-0.6.220919_win64.exe/download
Debian Installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio_0.6-220919_amd64.deb/download
Pre-Compiled ZIP for Mac: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio_v0.6.220919_mac.zip/download
Pre-Compiled ZIP for Windows: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kage/files/kagestudio-0.6.220919_win64.zip/download

Zipped source code is also available which you can browse online: https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/code/HEAD/tree/studio/

Yes. Second maintenance release! The first maintenance was silently released but it's listed on the downloads page, for Windows and Linux.

All in all, this release contains 5 fixes and one new feature, which may help game developers to create their game art with Kage Studio. Here's a quick tutorial on how you can use Kage Studio to create spritesheet.

~creek23

Changelog:
- Fixed Issue #126 - https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/126/
- Fixed Issue #127 - https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/127/
- Fixed Issue #129 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/129/
- Fixed Issue #130 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/130/
- Fixed Issue #131 -- https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/131/
- Implemented Request #128 - https://sourceforge.net/p/kage/tickets/128/
- minor code cleanup

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