Press Release
Wacom Enhances Creative Experience with 6D Art Pen
Artists and Designers Get Exciting New Artistic Controls through the Combined Efforts of Wacom and Corel
Vancouver, WA, April 4, 2005 - Wacom® Technology Corporation, with the support ofCorel®, has successfully developed a 6D Art Pen that gives artists and designers six
dimensions of pen control in Corel Painter™ IX. Available immediately, the 6D Art Pen
is supported on Wacom's Intuos3 pen tablets and new Cintiq 21UX interactive pen
display. The pen has a suggested retail price of $69.95.
State-of-the-Art Pen
The 6D Art Pen builds on Wacom's patented cordless, battery-free technology to offer
artists and designers six dimensions of creative control:
- X-axis (left and right)
- Y-axis (up and down)
- Pressure (force with which pen is applied to tablet)
- Tilt (angle at which pen is tilted)
- Bearing (direction in which pen is tilted)
- Barrel Rotation (orientation of the pen around its long axis)
to easily control brush attributes with barrel rotation," said Mark Mehall, Senior Product
Manager with Wacom Technology. "The sixth dimension of control provides a wonderful
natural media experience in the digital environment."
New Software Provides Artistic Control
Corel worked closely with Wacom throughout the development of its Art Pen technology
to create the Corel Painter IX Art Pen Brush Pack, a collection of five new brushes that
greatly enhance the digital art experience and heighten the relationship between the
designer and digital canvas.
"Never has technology so faithfully captured the traditional art experience," said Sean
Young, Product Manager for Corel Painter IX. "The combination of Wacom's new 6D
Art Pen with the new lifelike brushes in Painter IX enables artists to transcend the digital
divide and explore a brave new world of creative freedom."
Some of the leading software applications specifically designed to benefit from use with
the 6D Art Pen are: Studio Artist by Synthetk, Body Paint by Maxon, and Studio and
Symbolic Sound by Kyma. More graphics and design software companies intend to
support the 6D Art Pen in the near future.
What the Experts are Saying
Several well-known artists and industry leaders had the opportunity to use the 6D Art
Pen and provide valuable feedback:
"My traditional brushes respond to pressure, and how I tilt the brush and rotate my hand
while I'm painting. I never expected to be able to enjoy this same kind of control in my
digital work. I'm stunned. With Painter IX and the new 6D Art Pen, I'm in digital painting
heaven."
- Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Painter instructor and best-selling author
The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book and Painter IX Wow Book!
"We've added extensive support for the new capabilities of the 6D Art Pen to our Studio
Artist Paint Synthesizer. Pen rotation adds a new dimension of interactive control that is
very intuitive for users to understand and operate. The 6D Art Pen is the most exciting
new development in interactive control for computer generated art to appear in the last
10 years."
- John Dalton, President, Synthetk Software and creator of Studio Artist
About Wacom
Wacom Technology Corporation is headquartered in Vancouver, WA and is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Wacom Company, Ltd. (JASDAQ: 6727). In 1989, Wacom
revolutionized the nature of computer art when it introduced the world's first cordless,
battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen. Today, Wacom is the world's leading
manufacturer of pen tablets, and millions of artists, designers, and photographers of all
levels enjoy its patented technology. For more information, visit www.wacom.com.