The Blog of Glen Moyes

Pentagram , I apologize in advance. Is it just me or does the OLPC logo look like an abstracted and friendlier version of the Skull and Crossbones ? I just noticed that the other day, and the thought of seeing it used as a Jolly Roger was funny enough that it needed a sketch. We've been putting more work into making fast 2D games for the OLPC . Right now we don't have direct access to the XO-1's hardware; we'd have to write some drivers to do that. For now we are going to try and see what we can do without hacking the thing. We might consider writing the driver if we feel it's going to be worth the trouble and research. As for me, I'm just glad that I'm the art guy. Anyway, enjoy the image. It's at a decent resolution this time.

I just checked one of my junk mail accounts, and received a pleasant announcement from Wacom. They just released something called the Cintiq 12WX . It's a smaller, and much cheaper model of in the Cintiq family. Now, it's been my illustrator fantasy to own a Cintiq, or at least be able to play with one. Fortunately at Siggraph 2007 I got that opportunity. The Cintiq 21UX I played around with was a US$2499 piece of equipment. That's a lot of value for the bastard child of an LCD screen and a tablet to live up to. After I used it for about an hour, it almost lived up to my expectations. Yes, drawing with it is much easier, is way more natural, and the pen tilt is easier to visualize (which is really handy because I use a lot of calligraphy brushes). However, I'm not used to having my arm cover the image I'm working on. This makes right-clicking unusual at first because the menu appears directly underneath your hand. Also, when I'm using something that resembles pe...