Gadgetory

I'm Nick Cogan I'm a creative director an artist writer I've worked on ad campaigns for feature films like the peanuts movie and Rio and Ice Age today I'm trying out the surface studio what's most important for most people who are looking at something like this is that it feels like natural media feels like a pencil yeah I definitely like the feeling of the tip the nib at home I have the Wacom Cintiq which is a 20 inch pen display similar functionality of this it's just the display and that's the industry standard this is similar to the Cintiq in that I can tip it down and up the Cintiq also allows you to rotate the entire monitor you know drawing like this is harder for me than drawing like this I'm right-handed I use Photoshop I use flash after-effects on a Mac so you obviously have to have a pretty high-end computer if you're using these drawing and painting tools this is my first time using the dial going back and finding all the menus through this is really time consuming even just going back from color to brush and sort of toggling through the different colors sort of gets in your way whereas there's probably a quicker key command for video editing be great for scrubbing footage dry and gruesome nightmarish stuff and I'm not gonna stop I said I was gonna draw something cute and I didn't it so horrific let's just go all in he's hunched over I think the big barrier is gonna be that it's windows-based and so many people in the creative fields are really already decades down using Mac's for me I always get instantly confused when I'm on a Windows computer this is definitely a great tool for artists I think it is really comparable if not a little bit better than my current setup as a drawing tool this is great there's a lot of fun