Dominik JohannInterview
Designer and illustrator, Crows Crows Crows
Adapted from Dominik Johann's interview on Uses This, published 27 April 2017. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Most of my digital art is done on a 13" MacBook Pro.
I draw on a Cintiq screen (which I'd recommend over conventional tablets because it feels a lot more precise and immediate), but at home I've got a big Thunderbolt-knockoff Dell display.
My headphones are Beyerdynamic DT-770, huge but lovely and comfortable.
Communication
Productivity
Coding & Development
Sublime Text for code and quick notes.
Design
Most of my time is spent in Photoshop CC, a heavy duty tool for almost everything I do in 2D.
The animation engine is terrible and unreliable, so I've been trying out Aseprite for pixel art and animation.
Web and application design happens in Sketch, which gets really really good if you use Sketch Toolbox and its plugins!
Media
There's Ableton Live for music composition and sound design, or when I need a five minute break to just mess around with little loops.
And since most of my work is visual I listen to lots of podcasts with Overcast on the side.
Storage
Other
Langeskov, The Tiger, And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist][dr-langeskov-the-tiger-and-the-terribly-cursed-emerald-a-whirlwind-heist], and Accounting for Virtual Reality.
Right now I'm also working on the monochrome Zelda-like Minit.
I love to prototype story ideas in Twine, a free little tool for interactive fiction.