AurieaInterview
Interactive artist, game designer (Tale of Tales)
Adapted from Auriea's interview on Uses This, published 17 November 2015. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I recently got a Quirky Web Case.
I store a very small Moleskine notebook with a clip-on pen I found at a great little stationary shop in Carrousel du Louvre called Delfonics (recommended) and an iPad stylus (a Wacom Creative Stylus 1) on the back of the thing.
I like to record sounds around me, I find its as evocative as a photograph, so for that I have a RØDE i-XY microphone I plug into my phone.
A maxed-out 11" MacBook Air that I love.
For work in the Studio I have a 27" iMac on a Ergotron arm so I can swivel it any way I like.
A Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid that I hook up to it if I'm doing more precision work.
But mostly I'm using the mighty and huge Wacom Intuos Pro Large - I actually like the mouse it comes with.
I have several Wacom pens but I especially like the Art Pen because it has rotation as well as tilt.
Oh, and I guess I like my scanner - it's an Epson Perfection V500 Photo, so I can scan all those old photo negatives I have from the past...
Communication
I have Twitter (@auriea) instead of a real social life.
Tweetbot, over the stock Twitter app.
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Oddmuse Wiki, created by Alex Schröder.
Coding & Development
But let's not play, sometimes I gotta FTP so I'm all about Panic's Transmit.
For some reason I started using MacRabbit's Espresso for HTML and I still think it's great for its CSS editor.
But TextWrangler is great for HTML too - no fuss, no bells, no whistles.
Design
I like the Procreate painting app on iPad.
Autodesk 123D Catch for quick 3D captures on my phone.
Media
Storage
Other
And when you have different pens, you can set them up in Corel Painter to each be a different material, and make a different mark.
I have some time-management issues :> So I use Pomodoro Timer if I need a procrastination-free day.