HPR4491: Thibaut and Ken Interview David Revoy

Update: 2025-10-20

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

This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International license

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