CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Asia
Recently we've been working closely with Wacom and our latest show was at CES Asia held last week in Shanghai, China. This is the second year we have CES Asia in addition to the CES in the US.
Wacom is promoting their Pen ID feature and Expresii was used to show off that. Essentially, Pen ID allows you to associate your brush settings to a particular physical pen so that you can simply switch the physical pen when you want to switch your virtual tool . Here is a demo:
One of the tablet models we used was the HP Elite X2, among others from Toshiba and Lenovo. Check out the following amazing flow demos in which the HP wa s used .
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Wacom's Connected Ink
Our Dr. Nelson Chu was also invited to be a Panelist at Wacom's event Connected Ink to discuss the future of digital ink. It's held on the 93rd floor of Shanghai World Financial Center , one of the world's tallest buildings during the second day of CES Asia.
Expresii attracted many of the participants, including both hardware and software makers. The flowing ink, which you can control by tilting the tablet itself, is simply amazing.
| During the discussion, Nelson mentioned that this is the right time for digital ink to get even more popular: | For our case, we used to require a discrete GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) for fast fluid simulation, but now even a mobile device can do the job fast and cool! |
| Advanced tech is becoming more accessible: | In the past, we had to tell artists to upgrade their graphics cards and not many of them know what to do. Now they can simply buy a new Windows tablet and enjoy our flowing ink and more! |
| Impact on creativity: | Other painting apps' watercolor do not really flow in a natural way. Expresii is different - its flow is lifelike and really organic. The resulting patterns are intriguing and often spark imagination. |
Wacom has been pushing forward the Digital Stationery Consortium as a joint movement around “ink of 21st century”. We are totally aligned with this development. In East Asia, we have been using a writing brush to write for thousands of years. Today calligraphy is a still big part in our lives. The following is a piece of calligraphy '文房具‘ meaning ’ Stationery‘ in Japanese (yes, those are actually Chinese characters ;-) done with Expresii . Notice the high quality rendering that other apps just can't match.
Expresii is the best tool I've ever used for calligraphy and ink painting! - Nobutaka Ide, Sr Vice President, Wacom
In deed, the strokes and flows in Expresii are so natural, people seeing it for the first time are often in awe. In conclusion, now hardware and software are finally coming together to make advanced creative tool like Expresii easily accessible!
Our Nelson Chu with Mr. Masahiko Yamada, President & CEO of Wacom, Mr. Nobutaka Ide, Sr. Vice President of Wacom, and Mr. Martin Sun, Wacom Taiwan President and other colleagues.
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