The teams working together in the studio space Ars Electronica Futurelab and Wacom launched a collaborative research project to explore the possibility of creativity from all aspects of ink. Together we started on a journey to create a Future Ink Open Lab, where we combine Wacom’s pen and tablet technology with Ars Electronica Futurelab’s advanced drone technology called Spaxels to envision a future where we can draw in any space with ...
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This years MCM Comic Con London was a blast. With thousands of die-hard fans and pop-culture consumers landing at ExCeL London last weekend, MCM Comic Con returned to bring the latest in collectibles, gaming, toys, TV and comics... and of course, the best tablets for creatives to the attendees. The event, which is being held at the London royal docks, included tattoo parlours, a gaming centre by the biggest brands, an international Cosplay competition, ...
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Have you ever been to the LUCCA Comics and Games Festival? It actually belongs to the biggest creative events we have in Europe - so visiting it once in your lifetime as a digital artist should be considered mandatory. This year it takes place from the 30th of October to the 3rd of November in Lucca, Italy. Want to know more about LUCCA? Just click on the link and go to ...
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We are busy, busy, busy... It's Festival season and being official sponsor of so many cool events can get a little bit hectic. But we keep bringing you the best coverage of our different events from around the world... This time we were proud sponsors of Playgrounds Festival 2019 in the beautiful city of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. The biggest event on concept art & design for film, animation and games ...
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We are proud to see our relationship with THU is growing every year, and in 2019, its 7th consecutive year, it is bigger and better than ever before... This time, we send out the Wacom crew and this is the report from a first timer perspective with "The Tribe": First of all, lets start with the sentence that the Wacom team members have been saying for the last days: you had ...
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A creative, open-minded audience at an extraordinary festival – ideal conditions for an experiment. We invited our visitors at the Open Source Festival to contribute to a sequel story. Each co-author only read the immediately preceding episode, not the whole story. For this setup, we took a little inspiration from a creativity technique called "Cadavre Exquis" that the Surrealists developed about a hundred years ago. We used our smartpads to capture ...
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For years, IAMAG.CO has evolved as an international art magazine, celebrating artwork from all over the world on a daily basis. The Master Classes, hosted in Paris, are an extension of this amazing collection of online content, and it has matured to a gathering of influential professional artists across the disciplines of animation, concepting, VFX / FX, and technical direction. Oculus Medium and Wacom partnered up to elevate the industry standard ...
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Playgrounds is an art festival and conference on cutting edge creativity. Since a decade, Playgrounds is a community and meeting ground for passionate motion designers, innovative animators, and amazing art directors. It is a perfect opportunity to catch up with international leading colleagues, to be inspired and get new ideas, expand your international network and – who knows – acquire new business leads. Naturally, Wacom is part of the fest and present ...
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In 2018, Wacom was a partner of the first BIJORHCA JEWELRY AWARD competition, which aims to reward the most creative and innovative achievement and enhance the profession of craftsman jeweler on a given theme: the birds from Metropolitan France! The winners of the competition were rewarded during the Party Bijorhca Paris in January, 2019. Congratulations to Camille DIOGO who won the first prize for her superb creation “L’Éclat d’Eau” The Kingfisher, with its fast ...
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The beautiful illustrator and model Daria Artemieva from Kiev made Spider-Man come to life using our Wacom Intuos drawing tablet. Watch the time-lapse below. Or watch the full Ukrainian version, here. By the way, check out our Spider-Man promotion in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation and join our giveaway for a chance to win a PS4. During the pre-premiere of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie, in Ukraine, Daria also did some cool ...
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