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The Ipad as an artist’s tool- the possibilities
Sketchbook (Pro) on the Ipad- is this practical?
Think poor man’s Cintiq.
I was debating with my brother- who is an architect- the possibility of the Ipad eventually having a breakthrough drawing app in (hopefully) the near future. Think about it- it just makes sense. An Ipad version of Painter, or Art Rage could do very, very well, and be an inexpensive creative tool for artist’s like myself, everywhere. While Autodesk has Sketchbook for the iphone/ipod already, an Ipad version could bring about far more possibilities.
Since there is already precedent for a kind of app like this to do well- ala Brushes, Sketches, and others for the iPhone- I think that’s there’s a real opportunity here for the larger application makers (Autodesk notwithstanding) to extend their brand, and product awareness to the extremely large and growing iPhone/ipod market. Actually, I find that to not have one of these in the the works by the big boy’s is a sign of brain-dead leadership and a lack of forward thinking. So how about it Corel? Apple? Shareware/Small developers? Even the lazy bums over at Adobe have their mobile Photoshop project- even though they are now using it to spread propaganda about the their ‘unfortunate’ iPhone situation with Apple. Wacom can even make a branded Cintiq drawing app to push the awareness of that specialized product. so many possibilities- but will these companies actually take advantage of it?
I recently checked out some of the videos of Microsoft’s Courier project- and while impressive, I fail to see how any of the drawing aspects of it couldn’t be replicated on the upcoming iPad. Beyond the increasingly ugly war for the mobile market, there may be some ways that these products make our creative work-flows even easier.
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That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking ever since the iPad announcement. This could have significant impact throughout the all the creative fields. I would really hope that at least Corel will do it SOON. Then Autodesk, and probably later than anyone else, maybe Adobe in 2 years.
You do realize that Microsoft’s Courier is just a concept, not a project. Those movies are just as real as Avatar is real.
Having said that, all iPhone drawing Apps will be ported over, bigger and better, to iPad. A year from now the iPad’s uses will be mind bogglingly diverse.