Ambient Design ArtRage2
Published by Matt Glover September 29th, 2006 in Software Reviews
I stumbled upon this little piece of software purely by accident. It seems like a possible alternative to PainterIX - and it’s FREE!
ArtRage2 is it’s name, by Ambient Design. Quoting from the website:
“Each of the tools in ArtRage is designed to work like its real world counterpart (minus the smell of paint thinners, and that piece of glitter you just can’t get out of the carpet).
Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be adjusted to give different effects. You can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.”
ArtRage2 supports pressure sensative tablets and includes a layer tool - two of the things that I think are essential in in any software for a professional cartoonist.
There is a more powerful version that you pay for, but at US$20 you can’t really complain about that either.
Anyway, I’ll give it a whirl over the next few months and let you know how I’ve found it. If you have any experience with it, please leave a comment and a link to some of your work!
After downloading this free version, i had some fun. But many necessary tools are not active in the free version and the manual failed to download which left me feeling like a drunk at the mouse for a while.