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The Foundry acquires developers of Mischief drawing and painting application

Nov 13, 2014 by CGP Staff
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The Foundry has added a 2D drawing and painting application to its software line. The company announced the acquisition of Made With Mischief, developers of the Mischief pen-based sketching, drawing and painting software for Mac OS X and Windows. Mischief employs a brush system that offers the richness of pixel-based brushes and the scalability of vectors. To encourage new users to play with Mischief, the company is making available Mischief-Free, a new limited edition that is completely free of charge.

Will The Foundry push for developing a 2D application that competes with Photoshop? Time will tell, but the company certainly has the technology and resources (they are already developing Mari). The fact that Mischief is not rental-only will also be appealing to many artists.

Also of note, The Foundry has stated that it intends to port the shape representation technology that is behind the stroke rendering system in Mischief (known as Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields, or ADFs) to other applications in its software line.

More on The Foundry and Made with Mischief’s website.

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steve gilbert (cresshead)
10 years ago

BTW you can make the ‘canvas transparent’ so you can draw over a 3dsmax viewport or whatever app is below Mischief.

Garry Clarke
10 years ago

Wow, the paid version is only $25 I’ll have to give this a go.

Nossgrr
10 years ago

Looks impressive on paper (no pun intended). I really liked the almost infinite zooming feature.
So the strokes are vector based? I’ll have to give it a try 🙂

Muadib
10 years ago

finally something is happening in the digital painting world.
the last couple of corel painter seemed pretty abysmal.

it is awesome to have an aggressive company take on this area.
hope they bring interesting stuff to the table.
25€ is a no brainer.

the growth of foundry, BM, maxon ist an excellent counterweight to the monopolistic stance of you know who.

Andy
10 years ago

If you haven’t bought this yet, or at least tried it, you definitely should. If you’ve ever struggled with inking in photoshop this software will blow your mind. I can finally draw clean, smooth lines with this which makes digital drawing so much less frustrating for me. Plus I don’t get those little blobs at the ends of quick brush strokes anymore!

superrune
Reply to  Andy
10 years ago

I really wish more people know about Manga Studio, have you tried it? It is very similar to Photoshop but has the best drawing feel of any software I have tried. It does vectors, and has an impressive feature-set. And it only costs 50 dollars.

rs
10 years ago

A vector export is missing sadly… Surely this would not work with all brushes, but the basic ones…

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