For questions about a program#
Each program has a large community, usually the fastest help:
| Program | Help |
|---|---|
| Blender | https://blender.stackexchange.com/, https://blenderartists.org/, the manual under Help → Manual |
| Krita | https://krita-artists.org/ |
| Synfig | https://forums.synfig.org/ |
| Pencil2D | https://discuss.pencil2d.org/ |
| Kdenlive | https://discuss.kde.org/tag/kdenlive |
| MakeHuman / MPFB | http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/ |
| Flamenco | https://flamenco.blender.org/ (chat and docs) |
| Gaffer | https://groups.google.com/g/gaffer-dev |
| Debian (the base system) | https://wiki.debian.org/, https://forums.debian.net/ |
Questions about Debian 12 ("bookworm") apply to Animux too, as it is based on it.
For problems with Animux itself#
Collect this information first:
- The Animux release: run
cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTYand name the ISO file (for exampleanimux-genesis64-deb_28.iso). - Live, VM or installed? Which VM program?
- Your computer:
inxi -Fxzprints the hardware without personal data. - The self-test folder: run Animux Tools → Animux Self-Test and attach
~/animux-selftest/<date>/summary.txtand the.logof the failing test. - For start-up problems:
journalctl -b -p err > ~/errors.txtand attacherrors.txt. - What you did, what you expected, what happened instead. A screenshot helps (Print key).
Learning#
- Blender Studio training: https://studio.blender.org/training/
- Krita manual and tutorials: https://docs.krita.org/
- The Illusion of Life (Thomas and Johnston) and The Animator's Survival Kit (Richard Williams), the classic books on animation.
- This guide's tutorials.