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![]() You can easily download a fan translation though, with the bonus of having the software unlocked, but it’s not that expensive and I hope you’ll purchase a legal license from the company for the $60 or so it costs now… even if you can’t actually ultimately use the legal, Japanese version… o_O After loading up you’ll notice that the interface is relatively simple compared to other paint programs, and while there are some advanced tools such as different types of brushes (crayon, acrylic, watercolor) and brush shapes, density settings, stroke/pressure stabilization, etc., I won’t be going into those today. It may not compare to the professional hand-drawn techniques used by manga artists and their tireless teams of assistants, but thanks to a few ingenious tools, it can provide editable, pixel perfect line art quite quickly and much more easily than other vector-based art programs.Īs far as I can tell, the software has never been officially translated into English, and even the website’s English is spotty at best. ![]() In comes Easy Paint Tool SAI, an awesome line art tool from tiny developer Systemax, who apparently still exist, but you could be fooled by their website. Drawing these lines is an incredibly difficult and arduous process – one that aspiring artists go to school to master and then do for years tracing over a manga artist’s sketches before ever dreaming of drawing something of their own. ![]() Unlike American comics, which take their time inking with heavy, shapely lines and large pools of black and color panels to make pictures readable, Japanese manga is generally done in black&white and is hundreds of panels long, and since no color will be applied requires a very fine attention to creating thin, perfectly readable line art quickly. One invaluable program in my repertoire is a strange little painting tool from the land of holographic pop idols and gameshows that hit guys in the balls: Japan. Colmanĭiagrams available in the 21st Origami Tanteidan Convention Lizard, Designed by Chris Heynen and Folded by P. Colmanĭiagrams available in Works of Satoshi Kam– 2009 Hermit Crab, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by P. Colman is a new artist I recently discovered and he had two very excellent new models this week. ![]() Lobster, Designed by Jason Ku and Folded by Nguyen Nam SonĬrease pattern available in JOAS special edition 2015 Switching back to paper we have this very life-like lobster by Nguyen Nam Son. Templar Garden 2×2 A, Designed and Folded by Ilan Garibi I’m not sure how he did it but it looks awesome. Next we have this tessellation that Ilan Garibi somehow hand folded out of brass. Our Past/Future?, Designed and Folded by Melina Hermsen Melina Hermsen tried something different and folded this excellent Monkey with fabric instead of paper and the results are pretty cool. Jedi Master Yoda, Designed by Fumiaki Kawahata and Folded by Francisco José González Alcázar ?, Designed and Folded by Ekaterina Lukashevaįumiaki Kawahata’s Yoda model is one of the coolest Star Wars origami models ever and this week Francisco José González Alcázar tweaked it a bit to make it so the Jedi Master is sitting down instead of standing up and it it looks fantastic. It’s quite simple but looks great, especially with that choice of paper and colour. ![]() Next up is this mini kusudama by Ekaterina Lukasheva. ![]() Puffer Fish, Designed by Jan Yong-Ik and folded by Matthieu Georger Let’s get started.įirst up is this really cool puffer fish folded by Matthieu Georger. We’re back again with another edition of This Week in Origami and this week we’re featuring some new artists we haven’t seen before plus some of these are folded with very different, non-paper materials. |
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