(We met Mr. Watkins in shabby café south of the Tiber, 11h am. He arrived very well-dressed though slightly tired out, sipping his macchiato, a nervous tick on the left eye.)
fingerpainted.it: Mr. Watkins they say, suspiciously black cars with tinted screens have been seen in front of your place lately. Any ideas why?
Matthew Watkins: Ha ha… If you are refering to my latest series “T is for trouble” I can tell you that I have the right to remain silent, though I find that increasingly difficult because I am having so much fun!
Tell us a bit more about it: it’s called ‘T is for Trouble, an ABC of crime’, so it certainly is for little kids? What’s the idea behind it?
It’s true that I started writing for children, older children, but by the time i got to C it was all over… I was making a book for adults.
(In this post, Thierry Schiel shares his first experiences in creating a storyboard completely on the iPhone. Thierry is a traditional animator on some 10 feature films and has also created and directed two full length CGI feature films “Tristan and Isolde” and “Renart the Fox”. He is also one of the most skillful fingerpainters you’ll find.)
Making a storyboard for a short film means doing between 150 to 200 drawings to tell a story. For my current CGI film I decided to try changing my PC/Wacom habits and to use the combined strength of Sketchbook Mobile and Hitchcock apps on my iPod Touch.
But would it work like it should?
The drawing part
It was very easy to do a drawing test as I had already used for some time Sketchbook Mobile and really appreciated its qualities. At first I was really impressed by how close a result I get to what I usually do on my desktop. With SBM I get the unique combination of layers, high resolution and beautiful lines for my drawings.
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Bari, Italy | 19.09.09: Matthew Watkins, canadian artist living in Italy and editor of this site opens the gates to his first art-show, L’arte ai tempi dell’iPhonetoday at C&C, the Apple-Retailer in Bari, Italy.
Storefront, Picture by the artist
Matthew has not only put up a large collection of his fingerpaintings, visitors will also be able to see the world’s first handmade Tibetan carpets designed on an iPhone.
Carpet designed on the iPhone, by Matthew Watkins
Like many, Matthew has discovered fingerpainting (i.e. painting on the iPhone) early 2009, and it has unleashed his creative forces in such an impressive way that by now he has painted over 300 little masterpieces. Every piece seems to tell his own little story, and often he adds some additional lines or even dialogues to enrich those ‘orphaned stories‘ as he calls them.
The art-show got quite some media buzz in Italy, with Matthew being on the Newspaper and even TV.
Matthew Watkins on Italian TV
So, you can’t come? Then go have a at look our gallery. Thx, Matthew and everybody enjoy the show!
“I was enjoying the sunrise and thinking what a cool place this was was and wishing that i didn’t have a suitcase full of dough. That was when i heard tires squealing and the roar of a big sedan”.
I don’t believe much in which-tool-is-better-shootouts, but this hands-on review by ideo2004.彥 is a fantastic way to compare the apps not by their features, but by the style and quality they yield.
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Thx, Matthew and everybody enjoy the show!
