That's a good viewpoint on Micorosoft's codename "Acrylic" over at PhotoShopNews. This software is not new, it's origin backdates the last century.
Fratical Design Painter, later MetaCreations Painter, and finally Corel Painter was, and is the best natural-media painting tool for creative workers.
On Sep. 20, 1996, Fractal Design shipped Expression at $449 retail, or $149 for Painter or Poser (yes, THAT Poser) customers. Expression inherited the best of Painter, while providing a vector-based engine. It was just too good for computers at that age with something like Pentium 166Mhz MMX, 64MB RAM and 2GB HDD. But still, it's the best and only natual-media vector drawing tool.
On Dec. 14, 1999, MetaCreations turned focus to develop interactive online steaming media format and became MetaStream, later Viewpoint. It discontinued, or sold all its products, including KPT and Bryce. A legendary pack is gone, and the rest was history.
I'm glad to see Microsoft to pick up one of the best of the MetaCreations heritage after so many years from Creature House Ltd(already redirected to Microsoft product page). From what Microsoft did to Visio, Expresion redux will definitely be a hit. It'll be my only reason to pay for a Wacom.
Friday, August 19, 2005
A little story about “Acrylic”
That's a good viewpoint on Micorosoft's codename "Acrylic" over at PhotoShopNews. This software is not new, it's origin backdates the last century.
Fratical Design Painter, later MetaCreations Painter, and finally Corel Painter was, and is the best natural-media painting tool for creative workers.
On Sep. 20, 1996, Fractal Design shipped Expression at $449 retail, or $149 for Painter or Poser (yes, THAT Poser) customers. Expression inherited the best of Painter, while providing a vector-based engine. It was just too good for computers at that age with something like Pentium 166Mhz MMX, 64MB RAM and 2GB HDD. But still, it's the best and only natual-media vector drawing tool.
On Dec. 14, 1999, MetaCreations turned focus to develop interactive online steaming media format and became MetaStream, later Viewpoint. It discontinued, or sold all its products, including KPT and Bryce. A legendary pack is gone, and the rest was history.
I'm glad to see Microsoft to pick up one of the best of the MetaCreations heritage after so many years from Creature House Ltd(already redirected to Microsoft product page). From what Microsoft did to Visio, Expresion redux will definitely be a hit. It'll be my only reason to pay for a Wacom.
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