Thursday, September 1, 2011

Pen and ink and pixels

Now this is cool.

If I were a designer, illustrator, animator, art director or just knew how to draw a straight line, I'd be first in line for one of these.

Coming soon from Wacom, the Inkling (great name) is a pen that writes in ink on paper while it also captures your sketches digitally in vector layers through a receiver. You can then import your sketches and refine them in Photoshop or Illustrator. 


If it works in practice as well as it seems to in the video, I can see a lot of these in agencies and design firms in the very near future.

4 comments:

  1. Wow! I gotta get me one!

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  2. I immediately thought of you when I saw this, Glenn. Imagine how fast you could go from ideation session to concept sketches and boards with this thing.

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  3. Want! Although I do have the Bamboo (wacom) paper app and another sketchbook app for the ipad and a stylus... That already has made my life so much easier.

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  4. Wacom now is promising a late October delivery on the Inkling. I fear they may have over promised on this one. I'm still first in line for the damn thing!

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