procreate TM (Corel Painter 8)
Thomas Armagost
> Where did procreate go?
> procreate was a great way for Corel to re-energize its image in
> the creative professional space and it absolutely worked! The
> procreate campaign created exceptional awareness of our products
> and our capabilities as design software experts, specifically in
> the Mac community. We will be capitalizing on the Corel brand
> going forward
Blah blah blah. In other words, Corel nuked procreate. But they
didn't get rid of Painter, Kai's Power Tools or KnockOut. In fact,
Painter 8 has just been released.
Please don't blame the Mac community for procreate's pisspoor
Painter 7 website, which will soon be gone forever, thank heavens.
<http://www.procreate.com/product/painter7/>
Littered with pretentious interactive Flash animation and difficult
to navigate, it set the standard for what NOT to do in web design.
Fractal Designs and Metacreations nurtured community and
participation, and offered useful info and tutorials. Hopefully,
Corel will start doing the same soon. No one in the Painter
community will miss procreate.
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SpaceGirl
wasn't it? I think Corel bought Painter when ProCreate (KPT) went backrupts
about 2 years ago.
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Mayor Of R'lyeh
<spac...@subhuman.net> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:
>This isn't exactly new news... Painter 7 was under the Corel banner too,
>wasn't it? I think Corel bought Painter when ProCreate (KPT) went backrupts
>about 2 years ago.
Corel bought Painter and a few other programs from Metacreations when
Metacreations decided to drop everything but their 3d plugin for the
web. Procreate was a spinoff of Corel that they put their artist type
programs under.
>"Thomas Armagost" <spu...@pe.net> wrote in message
>news:sputnik-5AB4EE...@ip-69-22-128-14.randori.com...
>> Corel <http://www.corel.com/painter8> sez:
>> > Where did procreate go?
>> > procreate was a great way for Corel to re-energize its image in
>> > the creative professional space and it absolutely worked! The
>> > procreate campaign created exceptional awareness of our products
>> > and our capabilities as design software experts, specifically in
>> > the Mac community. We will be capitalizing on the Corel brand
>> > going forward
>>
>> Blah blah blah. In other words, Corel nuked procreate. But they
>> didn't get rid of Painter, Kai's Power Tools or KnockOut. In fact,
>> Painter 8 has just been released.
>>
>> Please don't blame the Mac community for procreate's pisspoor
>> Painter 7 website, which will soon be gone forever, thank heavens.
>> <http://www.procreate.com/product/painter7/>
>> Littered with pretentious interactive Flash animation and difficult
>> to navigate, it set the standard for what NOT to do in web design.
>> Fractal Designs and Metacreations nurtured community and
>> participation, and offered useful info and tutorials. Hopefully,
>> Corel will start doing the same soon. No one in the Painter
>> community will miss procreate.
>>
>> --
>> weblog <http://www.well.com/user/silly/blog.html> si...@well.com
>>
>
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Jinny Brown
Corel didn't buy Painter because its owner went bankrupt. Metacreations
owned Painter, KPT, and Bryce (Poser, and others as I recall) and in
December 1999 announced they were selling their graphics software and
planning to follow another path. In Spring 2000 Corel bought Painter,
KPT, and Bryce.
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SpaceGirl wrote:
>
> This isn't exactly new news... Painter 7 was under the Corel banner too,
> wasn't it? I think Corel bought Painter when ProCreate (KPT) went backrupts
> about 2 years ago.
<SNIP>
David Butenhof
> This isn't exactly new news... Painter 7 was under the Corel banner too,
> wasn't it? I think Corel bought Painter when ProCreate (KPT) went
> backrupts about 2 years ago.
Painter was in the 6.x stage when Corel acquired it from Metacreations. They
released a Painter 6 patch (6.1?) that changed the splash screen to say
"Corel". After an interminably long wait, Corel finally brought out Painter
7, using it to launch their "Procreate" brand.
Painter 8 is now due "soon", (SCHEDULED to ship at the end of April), under
the Corel brand. I'm sure nobody will miss either the Procreate name ("go
forth and procreate?") or the horrible web site.
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Michael Clarke
<jinb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>SpaceGirl,
>
>Corel didn't buy Painter because its owner went bankrupt. Metacreations
>owned Painter, KPT, and Bryce (Poser, and others as I recall) and in
>December 1999 announced they were selling their graphics software and
>planning to follow another path. In Spring 2000 Corel bought Painter,
>KPT, and Bryce.
Anyone heard of what happened to Metacreations? Did they quietly go
under or are they still around?
Mik
Jinny Brown
Go to http://www.metacreations.com and click Company (Corporate info,
investor relations).
Jinny Brown
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