DeviantArt Muro

http://muro.deviantart.com/#

by iamelgringo • 16 years ago

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pbhjpbhj• 16 years ago

Really bad title: new online drawing application from devianART.

This sort of demo was shown before on here as part of HTML5 demos - but I don't think they claim to work with WACOM as this one claims to (via plugin).

Really awesome.

It's freemium, you can pay for extra brushes.

phoboslab• 16 years ago

Here's the old thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586905

iamelgringo• 16 years ago

My bad. I was a bit sleepy when I submitted the link. And, I hadn't seen the prior link.

roryokane• 16 years ago

To clarify, the parent comment was posted when the title was “Quite amazing…”. The current title of “DeviantArt Muro” is better.

abstractwater• 16 years ago

Hmm - strange, this was submitted a while ago with an identical (minus the ending #) URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595614

alexyim• 16 years ago

Surprisingly, the other one only has 2 points. This is another example showing how heavily other factors weigh in getting upvoted, as opposed to just purely the content of the website.

chuhnk• 16 years ago

Are there competitors to deviantart? Because I have seen them reign supreme for many years now and cant recall anyone being as successful in this market.

mkr-hn• 16 years ago

dA is like Facebook. It's hard to compete with because it depends on the social network aspect. There are people with tens and hundreds of thousands of pageviews and thousands of watchers who have never submitted any art.

epochwolf• 16 years ago

There are competitors. I know of three. I don't know that I would call them successful though.

http://www.paperdemon.com/

http://sheezyart.com/

http://storm-artists.net/

Disclaimer: I was a moderator at storm-artists.net for a little while.

KevBurnsJr2• 16 years ago

That's a no.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/deviantart.com+sheezyart.co...

wwortiz• 16 years ago

In the community aspect http://conceptart.org/forums/ was much better than deviantart (though they seem to have gotten much more commercial and I can't comment now as I haven't been there for quite a while).

spot• 16 years ago

https://renderosity.com

has a 3d orientation but same basic idea.

extension• 16 years ago

Seems to work on the iPad, except I can't figure out how to use the three sets of four buttons on the bottom right.

MC27• 16 years ago

You need to earn points for access to those features - i.e. be a part of the Deviant Art community. Kind of a clever idea.

belehe• 16 years ago

Similiar stuff and one of my favorites for killing time http://bomomo.com

ja27• 16 years ago

Or I like Flame (but it's Java): http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame

MrNibbles4• 16 years ago

This is based on Harmony by MrDoob. Example: http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/ Fork on Github: http://github.com/mrdoob/harmony

Its a great bit of work, the brush engine is simple to pick up too.

I really wish deviantART would fork the github repo, its not a drastic departure from the current source. i'd love to see how the WACOM integration works!

I wonder how many people have paid for the extras in the DA version.

gb• 16 years ago

I don't think there is any special Wacom integration despite the "Works with Wacom" (what doesn't?), it doesn't take notice of pressure or anything like that anyway.

edit: My mistake. It detects when you're using the eraser, but that's it.

edi2: Actually some of the brushes do seem to be pressure sensitive but it doesn't seem to work on all of the brushes it should.

ambiate• 16 years ago

Thanks. I was on the harmony site for nearly 2 days straight when it was pulled for no apparent reason. I'm so happy to see it is back.

jcw• 16 years ago

I wonder why it's based on that rather than a more conventional painting program. The 'webby' and 'chrome' type brushes are kind of difficult to use and get the effect that you want.

akirk• 16 years ago

I also did pressure sensitive drawing for Colorillo: http://colorillo.com/blog/2010/07/pressure-sensitive-drawing...

What would you like to know about it?

MrNibbles4• 16 years ago

Stranger things have happened with the harmony source: http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/696

As for the WACOM integration, the docs here seem reasonably explanatory: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm - thanks for the offer however :)

Just had a play with Colorillo, looks great!

kemayo3• 16 years ago

There really doesn't seem to be any code re-use. Even MrDoob agrees: http://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/20933173931 :)

In particular, the brushes behave differently. Note how in Harmony the currently-drawn line interacts with old lines, whereas in dA's one it only interacts with its own current segment.

MrNibbles4• 16 years ago

Looks like your right, i cant find many similarities in the code. I had heard from a very good source that it was directly based on Harmony, perhaps only in concept it seems! Thanks for pointing this out. Currently eating my own hat.

JoeAltmaier• 16 years ago

Nothing draws for me. Win7 64 IE8. Sigh.

melling• 16 years ago

IE9 beta ships in 2 weeks. Microsoft is finally going to get it right.

Sizlak• 16 years ago

Works with iPad. A little lag here and there, but much better than any other canvas drawing app I've seen so far.

stewars• 16 years ago

Can confirm it works great with a Wacom tablet. Pressure and erasing works. Info on using the Wacom plugin is here: http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm

MrNibbles4• 16 years ago

who would have thought it would be so easy!

shasta• 16 years ago

Does anyone actually use these web based drawing tools?

bradendouglass• 16 years ago

This is the exact question that I raise whenever I find a new one (and there seems to be many). Lots of people use Aviary but that is more a Photoshop sudo-replacement over a true "drawing app."

It would be great if someone did some deep traffic analysis on all of these.

KevBurnsJr2• 16 years ago

DeviantArt has been awesome for a long time.

If anyone can pull off selling brushes as digital goods its them.

CamperBob2• 16 years ago

I'm unclear on how to save images with this. I'd think that anyone with a DA account would receive (and/or be able to buy) some file storage space and save their work to it for recall later, or on another machine. Instead, all I see is an Image->Export option. Am I missing something obvious, or is DA?

baq• 16 years ago

export image, right-click, save as, send to your gmail?

CamperBob2• 16 years ago

Yeah, that's lame. It should be more like "Image->Save", enter a name (and optional additional tags), and hit "OK."

How am I supposed to continue working on the image later, or on a different PC or tablet, if the only way I can save it is by sending it to GMail?

kemayo3• 16 years ago

There's a save/load feature in beta. It just didn't launch with it.

http://devbug.deviantart.com/blog/34734592/

slime• 16 years ago

This is fantastic. Thanks for the link.

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