You can see the latency easily even on this 24 frames a second video when he was using the pencil to move the vector points. Now imagine drawing with a latency like that. In no way this can be used for by a professional to draw even for a couple hours straight. This is exactly why professionals don’t like apple. Apple pretends to do something for professionals but actually makes something for hobbyists that’s completely unusable for us.
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Can anyone test Sidecar and tell me a few things?
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Before I became an art director, I have been a professional illustrator and concept artist for years and have worked on every tablet imaginable - Cintiqs, Intuos Pros, Surfaces and iPads, and every video of Sidecar I’ve seen so far tells me it will be perfectly usable for professional tasks. Hey, even in Astropad, the latency is usable, especially for 3D apps like Zbrush. Pressure curve and precision is far more important, and nothing in this video tells me this will be a bad experience for professionals.
Also, “professionals don’t like Apple”? Every art convention I’ve been to, you know what I see most in illustrator’s hands? iPad Pros and MacBooks. And as someone who uses (and loves) the Wacom Pro Pen 2 daily, I can say that nothing beats the Apple Pencil.
P.S. The latency you mention (which doesn’t seem too bad) could also be a result of the app itself. Not everything is buttery smooth as Procreate.
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I don’t know about zbrush, but I’m a storyboard artist and I need to draw a lot and draw quick and I found that a delay like that on Astropad was absolutely unusable.
Also, have you or anyone you know ever done any commercial art on an iPad? You can draw in procreate, sure, but how many art jobs are actually about drawing? You need specialized software for story boarding or designing or animation or any 3D work. I do agree Mac + Cintiq is a people’s favorite combo, though cost + performance are constantly the criticism of this setup. Disney and game studios might be able to afford that for their productions but not tv industry for example.
P.S. btw there are no pressure curves adjustments available right now on sidecar, but I assume 3rd party software could solve that potentially.
Also, have you or anyone you know ever done any commercial art on an iPad? You can draw in procreate, sure, but how many art jobs are actually about drawing? You need specialized software for story boarding or designing or animation or any 3D work. I do agree Mac + Cintiq is a people’s favorite combo, though cost + performance are constantly the criticism of this setup. Disney and game studios might be able to afford that for their productions but not tv industry for example.
P.S. btw there are no pressure curves adjustments available right now on sidecar, but I assume 3rd party software could solve that potentially.
Anyone tried it on the 2014 5k iMac with Radeon R9 M290X? The R9 should support hardware HEVC.
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Use it wired for much improved latency. I work with many design professionals that would strongly disagree with you.
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Use it wired for much improved latency. I work with many design professionals that would strongly disagree with you.
so I see that sidecar can be used to also show a touchbar on the iPad. it got me thinking, would touchbar customization tools like bettertouchtool work with sidecar? I could see that being really helpful in software that doesn't natively include touchbar shortcuts.