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Title: Big Screen Hitachi Artworks
Image Size:
446KB
Date: 02:02:2013
Dimensions:
662 x 927 pixels
Materials: Photoshop CS5
Comments:
000
 
Description:

Hitachi Europe asked if I'd be interested in working with them during the ISE convention (big Audio Visual exhibition) in Amsterdam for 2013. My Role was to make use of their new 65" touch screen display by demonstrating how to draw manga style faces.

There were limits to what was achievable, but these samples give an idea of what I got up to over the 4 days. Each face was originally drawn at around 50 inches wide!

Being a bit of a technology geek, a Photoshop expert and character artist made me an ideal candidate to make use of their product, but I soon discovered Adobe doesn't currently fully support touch screen technology! This made Photoshop CS6 unfit for task, so I tried version CS5, which was just about workable, despite some pretty big bugs and glitches such as inability to work on an image zoomed in and a 6 second delay before I could use a new brush size! Tools such as the Lasso and Pen did were also unworkable.
Unlike using my Wacom Intuos graphics tablet, I couldn't rest my hand or wrist on the screen surface as I drew, and there was limited access to the many keyboard short-cuts I typically use creating additional challenges. In the end the process of producing a manga head drawing was tricky, but not impossible!

I'd typically work on one drawing in the morning and one in the afternoon. It was pretty tiring but a fun experience to produce art in this way. The visitors seemed very impressed at what was achievable in the right hands, and put a lot of other touch screen and interactive projector demonstrations to shame with their "See how I can draw a square and a squiggly line in different colours!"
Hopefully I will get the chance to work like this again some day ^_^

 
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