Now, Cintiqs are widely used throughout the studio. The obvious advantages of the interactive pen-on-screen workflow soon created such a buzz that everyone wanted a Cintiq. When Shettlesworth arrived at Sony Online Entertainment to work on The Agency four years ago, there was just one Cintiq in use. It gives me more of a one-to-one, so my hand and the painting are working together." "Drawing directly on-screen with the pen's pressure sensitivity, I can work from a shape perspective, building up the values and tones the way I would on paper. ![]() "I can only create the environment stuff with a painterly approach, and the Cintiq allows me to do that," he explains. The Cintiq's pen-on-screen versatility makes it easy to realize these forms. When working on large landscapes, buildings or street scenes, he imagines them as shapes, values and tones, instead of lines. Shettlesworth also credits the Cintiq with giving him the ability to do environment work. By simply assigning one of the pen's programmable buttons to zoom the view to 100 percent, he can quickly assess if he is over-detailing something no one will ever see and change his approach without breaking stride. Regularly zooming in up to 2,000 percent when doing extreme detail work, he constantly reverts to actual size to make sure the changes will be visible. The Cintiq's all-digital workflow streamlines Shettlesworth's creative process in other ways too. And because I can move fast and loose in any direction, I can come up with way more iterations as I draw." "I get into a rhythm when I'm doing something like this, and I don't want to break it by having to scan or go back and forth with an eraser. "It feels so much better to be on top of a drawing with your hand, the way you would do it on paper," he explains. This new routine has transformed his process, providing an uninterrupted workflow that saves over two hours of development time per character. It's a process of gently laying in colors and gradually building them up, rather than going in really hard and firm." Once I start painting, I switch to a looser tip. "I usually begin with a really firm pen tip, so I can keep the lines tight and clean. "With interchangeable pen nibs that emulate the feel of traditional media, the Cintiq gives you a natural drawing response that lets you be as expressive as you want," he says. The Cintiq pen's 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity integrate seamlessly with the software and respond automatically to his touch for precise control over line weight, opacity and exposure. LCD screen in Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator® and Corel® Painter™. With Wacom's unique pen-on-screen capability, Shettlesworth is able to draw and paint directly on the Cintiq's 21-in. Using the Cintiq, he can finish the same character in three to five hours. ![]() ![]() This process would take as much as five to seven hours for a typical character. SOE Concept Artist Patrick Shettlesworth says the Cintiq enables him to eliminate multiple steps in his workflow, from drawing characters on paper, scanning them into the computer and cleaning them up, to coloring with a Wacom Intuos® 3 tablet. To create the game's intricate characters, environments and objects, SOE artists turned to the Wacom® Cintiq® interactive pen display - giving them a much faster digital workflow with a natural drawing feel. With the impending launch of The Agency™, a spy-themed first-person shooter MMO for the PC and PlayStation® 3, SOE is poised to set new benchmarks for innovative video game play. As the birthplace of massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) phenomena EverQuest® and PlanetSide®, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a leader in immersive entertainment, technology applications and talent.
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