David HellmanInterview
Digital painter for games, comics, animation
Adapted from David Hellman's interview on Uses This, published 8 November 2012. 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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My main computer is a MacBook Pro 17" from 2010.
When I'm at my desk I plug into a 27" inch Cinema Display built in the early 21st century.
It was the Intuos 3 generation.
Last year for my birthday my girlfriend gave me an iPad 2 and it's the best computer I've ever owned.
For drawing, my iPad stylus of choice is the AluPen by Just Mobile.
The Bamboo Stylus by Wacom is pretty similar but I like the weight of the AluPen.
I leapt to purchase the Jot Touch by Adonit, one of the first iPad styluses to implement pressure-sensitivity using bluetooth.
My favorite pen for line work is the Zebra G-301 Gel.
Design
When I paint in Photoshop, I usually start with a sketch layer to rough out the composition.
Media
What made me really love it is art apps (more on that later) and GarageBand.
Other
My most high-profile work has been the graphics for the videogame Braid.