Fractal Designs team back together (was: Corel Painter 6)
Chad Irby
> Mark Zimmer, Tom Hedges and John Derry. Is anyone excited?
> <http://www.fractal.com/about.html>
Shit, yes.
Some of my best work has come from products that these guys have made.
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Kenny A. Chaffin
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hmmmm, very interesting! "Same it never was"
Here's hoping for great things!!
KAC
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Jinny Brown
They've been back together for several months now. I'm interested to
learn what they're going to be up to and hoping it'll be something as
exciting as Painter.
So far, I haven't seen any changes on their website in the past few
months. Hopefully, that means they're busy with Corel, finishing the
Painter 7 upgrade.. at the very least.
Jinny
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Thomas Armagost wrote:
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> Mark Zimmer, Tom Hedges and John Derry. Is anyone excited?
> <http://www.fractal.com/about.html>
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Bobby Henderson
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Sounds cool, but I hope they have a little more than a "consultation" type
of presence for further development of Painter, especially with it being in
Corel's hands. The bugs that shipped with CorelDRAW 9 made me infuriated.
I'd hate to see something like that happen with a new version of Painter.
Another thing I absolutely will not like at all is if the interface for
Corel's retooling of Painter is all jacked around like CorelDRAW has been
over and over and over again. Previous versions of Painter had a pretty
nice, streamlined interface that didn't clutter the desktop too much. I
have a 21" monitor running at 1600 X 1200 and CorelDRAW's dialog boxes and
flyouts obsure even that kind of desktop. Corel needs to take a long hard
look at Adobe's methods on interface design and adopt a few of those
principals. Macromedia could stand to do the same thing with some of their
products, especially Freehand. I'm not running a top of the line 21"
monitor to have it all hogged up by oversized dialog boxes and way too big
tabbed flyouts. I want to see more of my artwork and less of the damned
interface, but enough of it to be able to get the job done without going
through several levels of dialog boxes. Painter has been pretty good for
that. Current versions of Photoshop and Illustrator are great for that.
> Painter -> QuickTime Pro -> Flash. Is this possible? Or what?
I can perhaps see the Painter to QuickTime Pro thing perhaps --but maybe if
you are using Adobe Premiere and After Effects to generate the actual
QuickTime movie. Bitmapped art from Painter doesn't really fit in great
with Flash since Flash is a more vector-oriented animal. You can use
bitmapped images in Flash and even animate them, but bitmaps create a much
larger strain on bandwidth than vector objects. Bitmaps in Flash movies
will increase download time, slow streaming progress and make you drop
frames. If I use any bitmap images in a Flash movie, they are usually
static background images. Or a static item that has been converted into a
Flash symbol.
Bobby Henderson
Scully
application has many more tools, options, etc. than any 2D program could
possibly have, yet it manages to pack it all neatly in logically arranged
tabs without the floating palette madness of Adobe & Macromedia apps...