Watch live illustrators and artists on Sywork (YC S15)

by pelinkenez • 11 years ago

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marceloeche6• 11 years ago

Hey folks! I'm Marcelo, one of the co-founders. Sywork is a live streaming platform for illustrators and digital artists. It’s like Twitch but for artists. It’s a place created especially for them.

We've just released our beta. We'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions!

adminprof• 11 years ago

What advantages do artists get for using Sywork instead of Twitch?

minimaxir2• 11 years ago

Twitch is gaming-only, and users can only stream gaming-related subjects.

marceloeche6• 11 years ago

Sywork is a place created especially for artists. Next week the streamers will be able to setup rewards to their fans. In Twitch they have a small channel for creative people. But the audience is not the same, in Twitch they're into games. In Sywork they're into games, comics, movies and art in general.

ThomPete• 11 years ago

Are you considering adding identity, web and GUI work too?

tvmalsv• 11 years ago

I would be really interested in that, too. I'm more of a backend guy, not an artist, and I think I would benefit from watching designers do their thing. Not so I could be a designer, but just to know their tools and workflow.

tombrossman• 11 years ago

Does this require Adobe Flash? I'm getting a "Error loading player: No playable sources found" message using Firefox on Linux. I don't have Flash installed but sites usually fall back to HTML5 video or tell me to install Flash. Neither happened here.

This looks really interesting though, so good luck with it and I hope to get it working soon.

EDIT: It's only the the live streams I'm having trouble with, the pre-recorded works fine.

marceloeche6• 11 years ago

We had some problems with Firefox but we are already working on it : )

minimaxir2• 11 years ago

It's worth noting that Sywork is (YC S15), which may be why this submission is receiving a lot of upvotes: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/05/watching-people-do-stuff-is...

EDIT: Was later added to title.

It's also worth noting that the YC S15 batch has another livestreaming startup, Livecoding: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/yc-backed-livecoding-tv-is-...

z2• 11 years ago

This is very exciting to me, especially because visual art doesn't get as much public attention compared to the performing arts. It's perhaps not surprising as we only see the finished products, assuming we even know where to look. Would music get as much hype if there were no live performances, and only straight-to-download albums? The analogy isn't perfect, but lending a live production element to visual art might just make audiences feel more involved.

marceloeche6• 11 years ago

Yep! That's what we think. And you can only see how hard it is to create visual art if you see the process.

iamcreasy2• 11 years ago

Sywork stands for "Show Your Work". Cool!

Are you guys going to introduce software based filter in the future?

marceloeche6• 11 years ago

You're saying something like a content-control software?

NateLawson• 11 years ago

I think they mean "only watch Illustrator" or "only Photoshop".

slvv• 11 years ago

SUCH a great idea. Is the platform also open to broader art and craft forms (beyond traditional "art") - say quiltmakers or knitters/other fiber artists?

Watch live illustrators and artists on Sywork (YC S15)

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