Artweaver paint app

rooster · Jun 2009

Anyone playing with this?

i started a hunt recently for some new and interesting paint progs, came across a few that I like, but I think this one seems to be the most promising, and free!

http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

it has (from my playing) a pretty decent (so far) brush engine and colour bleeding which is pretty much all I want from a paint app. only thing missing is SAI's realtime horizontal flip preview

check it out

ps: another much more limited app, which I kinda liked the feel of (well, the watercolour brush)
is twistedbrush free edition: although I'm pretty sure I'll focus my attention on artweaver for now

renderhjs · Jun 2009

Gimp for Painters and Gimp Paint Studio

its so sad that booth links are not written in English or offer at least a rough translation.
In a way thats a bit drag down for me to even test it out because support / read about sources are difficult for me to translate.
But certainly booth very impressive - I wish the official GIMP project would steer more towards a professional target audience like Blender for example does. Like now its often to crappy to start with it mainly because of the GUI which is so eewh

renderhjs · Jun 2009

oh thanks that was a interesting read,

though from a technical perspective the Japanese link seemed to be more interesting with 2 new brush engines or so it looked to me. Almost like openCanvas and some zBrush lazy mouse or gravity brush.

its nice to see such projects evolving

thinkinmonkey · Jun 2009

Lampoly, really thanks: now Gimp looks more artistic and in a so simply way!

Art-Machine · Jun 2009

You guys should check out ArtRage if you haven't. Very solid real media sketching program, and it has a free version that has most of the good features.

renderhjs · Jun 2009

I never liked the interface of artrage- ugly and non- productive in my eyes. Sai on the other hand nails it pretty well - super customizable and easy readable interface without any fancy effects or experiments that went wrong.

rooster · Jun 2009

I have artrage and like it, but I much prefer a more customisable brush engine like sai and artweaver. I'm actually finding artweaver's brush interface much more intuitive than sai's, although there are a few clunky bits to artweaver that are getting in the way (switching brushes, changing bleed ammount, etc) many instead of click drag, are click, click drag. which is a bit annoying

renderhjs · Jun 2009

here is another one:
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=9

this one is even used for the next Blender Movie "Durian"
http://durian.blender.org/about/

Michael Knubben · Jul 2009

Yeah, I've been following Mypaint for a while, but I want a windows 0.7 build!
I'll give Artweaver a go later. I've been reading the blog of the GPS-guy for a while too, but haven't yet tried the application. The recent release of english documentation will probably change that

(ps. Google Reader can now automatically translate a blog into any language. Not perfectly, obviously, but it works well enough for most purposes.)

edit: what's the link between Project Dogwaffle and Artweaver? lampoly suggests that Artweaver is a renaming of Pdw, but that's still around too, and certainly looks much different. Oh, and that one's still payware, too.

thinkinmonkey · Jul 2009

I'm with MightyPea: MyPaint looks really good, but the Windows version has no layers feature.
Anyway, Artweaver and GPS are really good to do good painting.

rooster · Jul 2009

hmm, i tried mypaint (if its the one I'm thinking of) and the brush engine was baffling. Looked like you could get some decent results if you really wanted to put the effort in, trouble is I don't.. just want somethign thats easy and flexible. definately designed by a robot programmer (no offence programmer types!)

edit: oh, by the way while I was searching I came across a really nice simple animation program called pencil. looks very handy for making animatics/storyboards

Artweaver paint app

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