New paint software from Escape Motions gives watercolor and acrylic brushes an unprecedented realistic look and delivers an exceptionally traditional feel to digital painting.
‘Colorful’ by Peter Blaškovič.
Escape Motions, the creative studio behind Flame Painter and Amberlight, has released Rebelle 2, the newest version of its revolutionary paint software. Rebelle 2 integrates groundbreaking improvements, giving watercolor and acrylic brushes an unprecedented realistic look, as well as watercolor masking fluid, which delivers an exceptional traditional feel to the digital painting.
An award-winning watercolor and acrylic painting program created by Escape Motions founder Peter Blaškovič, Rebelle’s watercolor simulation is based on a real-world color mixing, blending, wet-diffusion, and drying. Rebelle convincingly mimics the way natural media interacts with the canvas and itself. Users can paint, smear, re-wet dried colors, blow wet washes across the paper, tilt the paper to create water drops and runs and create countless fantastic watercolor effects.
A completely new brush engine allows users to create custom brushes in round, flat, bamboo, various wet splatters, sponges and many other form factors. Rebelle’s various wet tools -- watercolors, acrylics or ink pens -- can be combined with pastels, pencils or any other dry media tools in wonderfully intuitive ways. New stencils and selection tools together with wet paint diffusion open new creative results yet not possible to achieve in digital art.
This new supercharged version also comes with full multi-touch support and layered PSD support. All these convenient features are wrapped in an easy to use interface with a small learning curve. A free version of the tool is available to try out on the Escape Motions website.
New Key Features
- New brush engine -- Newly implemented brush engine allows users to create unlimited brush variations. Users are able to create their own custom brushes or enjoy by default implemented shapes - round, flat, bamboo, various splatters, sponges and many others. With option to use GPU acceleration, brushes can have bigger size and faster response.
- Creative stencils and masking fluid -- Stencils in combination with watercolor diffusion opens new possibilities for budding artists. Users can mask out painting areas, wet the paper and let the watercolor simulation create its magic.
- Selection tools -- Create quick masks and define shapes that block off the areas you do not wish to change. Classic freehand, polygonal, elliptical and rectangular selections got a new meaning when used in combination with traditional wet media.
- Layered PSD support -- An implemented layered PSD import & export is compatible with Adobe Photoshop and enables to transfer works smoothly also into other 3rd party graphic applications.
- Faster performance -- Undo/redo and new file management are highly optimized so the whole painting process including opening and saving big artworks is much more fluent.
- Multi-touch experience -- Rebelle has a complete support for multitouch gestures for Wacom, Microsoft, Apple and alternative tablet and trackpad devices including Astropad application.
- User Interface -- Interface is intuitive and easy to use, ideal for beginners or traditional professionals which may find that creative process can be very fluent also in a digital art. Simplicity and every important feature in reach is the first thing you find when using Rebelle.
“In the first Rebelle version our main focus was to create the most natural watercolors in the world of digital art,” Blaškovič said. “It is a real challenge to simulate watercolor behavior in a digital form, because it has many nuances and subtle details which makes it so specific. Very important in the creative process is the paper structure which in combination with brush grain and water behavior creates many beautiful variations. In the second Rebelle version we made watercolors even more creative, but also focused on other tools, especially acrylics which got an extraordinary realistic look.”
Rebelle 2 version is available now for Windows and Mac OS for $89.99 via the Escape Motions website. It comes with unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee as well as 50 percent discount for existing Rebelle users.
Minimum requirements: Intel i3 or equivalent AMD processor, 4GB RAM, 100MB hard disk space, Open GL graphics card with 1GB RAM, Windows Vista (64-bit or 32-bit) or Mac OS X 10.9.
Recommended requirements: Intel i7 or equivalent AMD processor, 16GB RAM, 100MB hard disk space, Open GL graphics card with 4GB RAM, 64-bit system Windows 7, 8, 10 or Mac OS X 10.10 and newer, Wacom or Surface compatible tablet.
Source: Escape Motions
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
