Do you remain skeptical of THQ's uDraw tablet for the Wii? Check out the above video and see what a pro can do with the tool. Award-winning painter David Kassan can be seen pumping out a very impressive portrait using uDraw.
This is all well and good and I'm glad that the tools can produce such results but, really, who is going to use the uDraw for this? I think the capabilities of the tool are beyond what the consumer would need and inappropriate as a product for those who would actually use the features.
Frankly, the only thing that seems to have even a shot at commercial success as a dedicated-peripheral game using this device is Pictionary. I'm sure people would buy that by the boatload but I don't know that I would buy a separate peripheral for seventy dollars and then buy the game on top of that.
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9:00 AM on 08.19.2010
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... I cannot draw for shit.
Looks pretty awesome though.
@ Themightylebeau2009 - Get EYEPET I taught mine that a "house" is a cock and balls, and that "the sun" is a naked woman (crude drawings mind you, see above) and that a picture of a flower is the words "Fuck you".
Now when left idle my Eyepet draws cocks, naked women and the words "Fuck you" on my augmented reality living room floor.
Endless fun.
I have images for each of my friends of my eyepet holding a piece of paper with "(insert name) is ghey" that I sent to them over the PSN.
Also, make a cock car and drive it around chasing the eyepet around your living room - happy times.
You can get a halfway decent tablet for the PC for around the same price and Gimp is well, FREE .... So If you really want to draw and your reading this ..... you should probably go that rout.
Its little more than an expensive crayon set, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Now if they could get some serious third party .... wait .... fourth party? development for this, it might have some huge potential for user generated content.
I hate people who hold disks like that.
DAMN RIGHT - WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT GUY?!
He's obviously not used to the almost scratch proof, but fingerprint hating Blu-Rays.
There is a painting program for the DS to turn it into a mini graphics tablet too, but it isn't something you can buy. It's modded software called ColorsDS, you can download it to a DSI modded flash card, if you Google ColorsDS you can find them fairly easily. I have seen some impressive stuff done, despite the hardware limitations of the DS.
Scuffles: Gimp is OK, but if you really want a great free program for digital painting, get yourself a copy of ArtRage. It has a really nice tool set that simulates real art mediums almost as well as Corel Painter XI and is completely compatible with Photoshop file formats. You can download the "starter edition" of version 2.6 for free and if you want to buy the full version they have 3 packages with even better features and tools. The full version of 2.6 is only $20. Their newest version 3.0 is a bit more expensive but still pretty cheap, Artrage Studio (or ArtRage 3.0) only costs $40 and they have a Pro edition that is $80, that's a little pricey but still way lower than anything made by Adobe.
Also, if you are a student or school faculty/staff member you can also go to JourneyEd.com and look up Corel Painter, you can get Corel Painter X for just $49.99 or you can also get the newest edition, Painter XI by itself for just $99.98 (down from $399.95) or you can get the full CorelDRAW X5 Graphics Suite w/ Painter XI for $129.99 (down from $848.00). If you are really interested in learning digital painting techniques these are two of the best programs you can get. I myself still rely heavily on Photoshop for my work, but I do dabble with Corel Painter XI if I really want something to have the feeling of being done in Oils or something, no other program simulates brush strokes and paint mediums better than Corel.
"The Wii Remote's buttons are accessible in front and behind the tablet, leaving them free for use in games compatible with the device."
and
"...the tablet can be tilted to roll him around in a bubble, reminiscent of the iPhone/iPad's Super Monkey Ball"
While the video shows the level of drawing that a pro can achieve, those who focus only on that aspect are missing the point. THQ publishes Drawn To Life (so a Udraw version is 100% certain), and I believe has worked in the past with 5th Cell, Scribblenauts' developer...
"The Wii Remote's buttons are accessible in front and behind the tablet, leaving them free for use in games compatible with the device."
and
"...the tablet can be tilted to roll him around in a bubble, reminiscent of the iPhone/iPad's Super Monkey Ball"
While the video shows the level of drawing that a pro can achieve, those who focus only on that aspect are missing the point. THQ publishes Drawn To Life (so a Udraw version is 100% certain), and I believe has worked in the past with 5th Cell, Scribblenauts' developer...
that doesnt make it more than a drawing tablet, it just makes it a drawing tablet with a Wii-mote attached. just pointing that out.
(http://xkcd.com/359/)