Julia
made by u2bleank
The release of the public bet of BlackInk approach. Here’s a sample of what you can do with it.
Silure
made by u2bleank
When I don’t want to code I open BlackInk and I dot quick drawing with it. Quiet relaxing ;)
Coryphella polaris
made by u2Bleank
I was one of the organizer of the VIP2012 and I also did a presentation of BlackInk at the party place.
I made a picture but unfortunately I didn’t capture the result in good quality. So I remake one in nearly the same condition.
It show that even non artist like me can produce some nice drawing with BlackInk with no skills.
But if you are more interested by sketch done by real artist you can watch this
Camera capture of the first launch of BlackInk a new Drawing software developped by Bleank.
The main purpose here is to show the SplashScreen featuring little fluid effect on top of the user desktop with transparency.
How I render DirectX on your desktop ?
Quiet simple I used this excellent article on how to draw directly on the desktop with a DirectX 9 bacbuffer. It’s pretty nice. The only problem is that it doesn’t work if you used DirectX10/11 becasue the WDM doesn’t handle correctly the backbuffer with these API. The good news is it’s only on Vista because Windows 7 ( and futur Windows 8 ) use at least DirectX10 and can now handle the alpha correctly.
It’s important because without it your rendering will be overburned and will look wrong.
Little drawing I did in several minutes using a Shot from the Cleack Project.
The native resolution is 6300x3400
We will release soon video of how to do pictures like this with BlackInk a software that I develop for Bleank
Cleack project revisited
made by u2bleank
Here’s 3 pictures done with BlackInk in few seconds.
Bleank will soon open a closed Beta so if you’re an artist and you’re interested in trying a new drawing sofwtare you can contact me.
BlackInk Teaser video
Claudine Ricart has tested an alpha version of BlackInk an application developed by Bleank.
This drawing application is highly responsiveness and can precisely handle pressure and speed movement from the artist.
This little teaser show someone who don’t have the habit to use painting software like Photoshop or painter and sketch in several minutes with great pleasure.
Technically all the rendering is done by the GPU in virtual texture of any size ( limited in 32bit by 10Kx10K pixels ).
We also put a lot of effort in the user interface but more infos and screenshots / videos will emerge soon.
Another Brush test with our mascot Scleacky.
Painted by me in 2 minutes with our custom drawing software in development.
Drawing test in a Virtual Texture ( video version of this post ).
You can admire my special coder art drawing skill….
I have also implemented a Undo/Redo mechanism and a simple Brush who is drived by the velocity and the pressure of a Wacom stylet.
The fps is clamped to 30 because of the video capture but the application run in full 60 fps all the time.
Due to virtual texturing caching and full hardware rendering it’s possible to cover very large part of the picture without sacrifying the fluidity of the application ( unlike a lot of drawing software who suffer server lag in that case ) and then to produce some kind of nice Calligraphy.
I worked on a Undo/Redo system who doesn’t hurt the drawing flow today and Bonnie has made this beautifull “Evil Poulet” to thanks me.
Enjoy ;)
8Kx8K pixels ( 61 Mega pixels ) Image drawing at 60fps
Due to vector rendering the artist ( here bonnie ) conserve high detail if he want to print it :)
Some test with a RIbbon like brush.
It was not so easy to handle the extrusion of the curve according to the pen pressure whitout some visual bug. But after a lot of effort the result is worth it ;)
It’s fun to become an artist without any artist skill ;)
