It may be interesting for painters to check out Verve, a new freeware that imitates oil painting by using fluid simulation on the canvas.
It only runs on windows and requires a decent GPU but it is very artistic and from a brief test I found it very pleasant to use too. There are a few bugs and omissions (such as multi step undo) still but Taron, the developer is working to get those ironed out. Have fun
Iād like to see that color widget for Blenderās paint tools, it would fit well with the UI since itās just adding a ring around the existing wheel (be a much quicker and visual way to set the brightness and opacity).
All this project is missing right now is a next generation robotic painting printer that would translate the image on the screen into a real painting complete with the subtleties in height and glossiness (and before you ask, I actually did see an article where someone developed a printer that uses real paint strokes).
This really does seem like the future of virtual painting, as such I wouldnāt be surprised if he eventually charges for a license (which unless the license says GPL, Apache 2, or MIT, then it may only be free in the alpha stage). Iām just putting this out there to help others avoid emotional recoils later on.
Looks like a cool tool. I find it interesting though that initially he paints with the oil effect, but then smudges it out and in the end it looks like a standard digital painting. I wonder how it would go at producing a typical thick oil painting look over an entire image.
A large canvas and a good set of oil paints can be very expensive (hence one of the reasons why people charge high prices for them), this would allow one to at least emulate an oil painting without having to make sure you have an adequate enough supply of the different colors you would need for a specific piece. It also means you donāt have to try to find a space in your house to carve out an art studio in, which is good news for those living in smaller quarters.
Plus I have read before of someone who actually managed to create photorealistic images (as if they were rendered), using oil paints due to their properties, so one with enough skill can make an image with this app. that will keep people guessing on whether itās a 3D render, a photo, or none of those.
And why in the world do you sculpt models in Blender and Zbrush (with a clay shader applied) when you can just use real clay?
Why use Cycles or Luxrender to render a photorealistic image when you can use a camera , some LEDās, and some props?
That kind of reasoning can easily apply to things youāre doing as well, but you choose to do it in digital 3D software instead.
I agree with Piotr Adamowicz,if you really want to paint with oils,use the real ones.
A digital medium is really different,and the workflow canāt be the same.
Iād love to use real clay but I canāt afford a scanner that will give me comparable resolution/quality.
That is however beside the point. Iām not arguing traditional media are superior, just that I see no reason for digital media to try to emulate them.
Well if you want to go ahead and write a comment on his YouTube page requesting that he delete this horrible blasphemy against the fine arts then you have the right to do that.
Heck, you might then call for the deletion of the code for MyPaint and Krita as well, because any ādigital paint on a screenā would then be seen as a crime against the fine arts and art communities that took hundreds of years to develop new styles and paints.
What Iām saying is that if we banded together to oppose any new technology that might put a dent in more traditional hobbies, then we may not even have digital 3D or 2D paint programs and Photo editors (who knows if weād even have much use for a computer). I do agree that there would be the clear weakness in that the subtleties in glossiness and height would be missing from digital work (along with that āfeelā when you touch the canvas), but it might be only a matter of time before we have printers that make use of real paint to recreate a digital work using real brush strokes.