Viviane SchwarzInterview
Writer, illustrator, creator
Adapted from Viviane Schwarz's interview on Uses This, published 23 June 2016. 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 digital workstation is a table I built myself with an old cintiq tablet built into the surface run by an iMac.
I added a USB controller from a Makey Makey and a breadboard because that was still to hand from a workshop teaching kids to make video games that week.
Communication
Notes
Coding & Development
I use Scrivener to write novels, it's frustrating that it doesn't work on mobile devices but it's still worth the fuss of carrying a laptop for writing.
Design
For the illustration work I use Adobe CS5, to be fully compatible with my main publisher.
Media
Storage
Then I just use whatever device is in my bag that day and log into Google Drive, and if the project needs any specific tools I am likely to have them coded or use whatever is available - my work is so varied that there is little overlap of software between projects.
Other
I'm running Ubuntu MATE on it, but I'm keeping a few other OS' on SD cards in a paper envelope sellotaped into the casing, just in case.