I Love Rita (the Mac illustration app!)... where have you been all my life
Rita is quite an amazingly innovative (really!) illustration/drawing application for Mac OS X. It’s also the work of one guy, Niklas Frykholm, who appears to be sickeningly talented! It’s incredibly easy to use, has loads of funky drawing tools (hatching, highlights, freehand shapes and ovals), several mad drawing tools (hex grid) and totally kicks ass when used with a graphics tablet. And whats really cool is it’s all done with vectors (So no nasty pixels when you zoom in) and an infinite drawing area – no arbitrary size restrictions – very nice. I’m not going to write much more now as I have to go play … but for now check out Niklas’ website and grab a demo version. If you, like me, love Rita, then $20 seems unreasonably, in fact, embarrassingly cheap. I envisage getting more out this than I ever have out of Illustrator*, ouch! * “the’re different kinds of apps”, yeah, ok, sure, lalala not listening.Comments... |
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Mad! Just tried it and find it amazing in many ways and mind-blowing in other ways (not always for the best, although I don’t have a Wacom tablet so may be missing a lot).
Doubt Adobe will be getting sleepless nights, but it reminds me more of Flash’s drawing style. Only more usable! So very different in approach to Illustrator, you can’t compare. But not to say that Adobe couldn’t learn from this app for several of their apps.
Cartoonists will love its style.
Cheers for the link to this!