Black Ink, a new GPU based digital painting node-based visual editor

I have just seen in the Jhon Nack Blog this news

Black Ink, a new generative-art tool

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The new drawing app Black Ink features a node-based visual editor for creating brushes, letting you “Tweak, combine, create new tools and discover the power of generative art!”

And when looking at the official website for this software, it really seems to be stunning and amazing of what can be done, and wanted to put it here because it seems that is a total new way of creative and artistic software that does not follow or use any of the previous artistic software techniques or tools and are more advanced, and overall is very fast at whatever resolution thanks to a good GPU optimization.

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Main Black Ink promotional website
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See also the video included

Please see the image examples shown on the link above to be amazed with what would be possible

VERY LOW PRICE PROMOTION WHILE IN BETA

AND what I like much also is that this new generation technology software will NOT cost you an arm and a leg as others ones available already

There is an Beta version discount where it only costs 35€ (around 45$) and you will get free the final version whatever the final price will be

Bad news for Mac Users - Is only For Windows

But you are lucky that you can use very easily and emulator for using Windows software, and have commercial and free software already available for you, and there is NONE commercial or easy available for Windows to emulate MacOS.

This tool does not have anything similar to Filter Forge although both may be node based, as they very different market, BUT I think that this software could benefit fr om having both software, and using the Black Ink to generate the source and then use Filter Forge to modify it and keep creating more things that maybe are not possible in any other software than filter forge.

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Here is some information copied fr om the link above

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Non-realistic Brushes Unlike most other digital painting solutions Black Ink doesn't try to mimic tradional tools but uses your computer as a really unique creative platform. New Inspirations With Black Ink you can finally free your imagination fr om realistic medias and imagine new shapes, new behaviors, new ways to create. A new philosophy The Controllers use a simple node-based language to give you access to every brush parameter and create any behavior you can imagine. Lim itless potential Custom brushes can then be shared with the community, giving everyone a wide choice of tools. Just visit our forums to download and try new brushes! Amazing Speed, Huge Document, Computer power Black Ink’s unique GPU-based rendering engine enables blazing fast performance on any picture resolution. 4K, 8K, 10K, just choose a number and draw incredibly fast with the finest details. Includes Layers too Many of you have been asking and waiting for layer support in Black Ink and here they are!

OTHER INTERESTING LINKS

And there is even more information in the company website wh ere is shown the price special offer while in beta version

Bleank Black Ink

And more videos and news shown here

Bleank videos and news

And it has also an online gallery and a forum

Black Ink Gallery Forum

Black Ink main forum

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Also Before I have already published other very interesting and great creative and artitistic tools that can also be used together and combined with Filter Forge.

Flame Painter

MISCHIEF - New drawing/painting app with scalability of vector and GPU

By the way, I hardly recommend using GPU-based apps on emulation. Bootcamp will allow for proper support for products as such.

I think this is much more than it seems and it has a much greater potential, and you can do many possible things because you can build your own brushes in many possible ways and customize it with the many available node components.

What I have discovered now is that this are NOT at all traditional brushes as it happens with Corel Painter, Photoshop, or any other digital painting software, as it is much more than that, and you can even use image based sources to pick up the colors and shapes and paint with that and build your brush with this. This can be seen how is done in this video shown here below

BlackInk - Pissenlit - Live Capture Using Brush with source image

Also another example that they are not traditional brushes is the images shown here

Bleank´s Blog - Black Ink New Rendering engine

NOT FIXED TO THE CANVAS SIZE FOR PAINTING

Also something that is seen in the above video and is curious, useful and not available in any other software I have seen, is that the available workspace, is like if you are having a virtual table where the canvas is put and then you can paint all over the table without any care, and only the parts that fall inside the canvas will be kept. All the other software I know only allows you to paint and works ONLY inside the limits of the canvas, and not outside of it.

STEAM GREEN HIGHLIGHTED

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This software has been Greenlit by the Community! The community has shown their interest in this software. Valve has reached out to this developer to start moving things toward release on Steam.

Steam Community - Black Ink

And it even has reached to Valve software and has been selected by the community and so they will promote it

MORE LINKS

More beautiful examples of what is possible in this other forum

ConcepArt.org Black Ink

Black Ink in Renderosity

And also Luxology forums - Black Ink

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Just curious, do you have examples that you've done?

Well, I am still learning how to use it, as it is not the same as other software, and although is intuitive, you must learn the basics behind this new way of doing things. I will put an example when I have something I have done.

GOOD AND BAD NEWS FOR MAC USERS

Before I have only read the many features available (go at the end of the page and there are some text with a little triangle at the left, click on it to open) but have not read the FAQ tab.

And I have seen this

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For the moment Black Ink is only available for Windows systems (XP/Vista/7/. A Mac version will follow in the future

This is the good news, and the bad news is that there is no date for this and maybe it will take some time until this could be available for Mac, and the second bad news, may be that if you do not buy it now, you could pay much more if you have to wait until the final release of the windows version to be able to test it.

I have seen that there are more interesting and great news of new features that can make this tool even better.

Black Ink Forum - Trace Modifier opens a new way

Also more news and cool examples can be seen in the U2´s Blog (U2 is the creator and CEO of Bleank company)

Black Ink U2´s Tumblr - Trace Modifier and other many more more things

ALso I have found some examples here in this other forum

Polycount - Black Ink page

FINAL PRICE?

Today 6 September has appeared a news in the Steam Black Ink dedicated part showing that what seems to be the final release price that seems to be 92,99€ and now it has a 62% discount while in Beta.

Steam Black Ink price

BLACK INK video based on the 2018 version

Here is a 24 minutes video to really show what this software can do and how to use it

Black Ink 24 minutes review 2018

BLACK INK 2020

I have just seen that this Black Ink has been updated to version 2020 and features many new things as seen here in the link

I think that this could be a good complement to Filter Forge and combine things for making artworks

Black Ink new 2020 version showing what is new

and on this video

Youtube Black Ink 2020 version

It is still only for windows and cost 59.99€ although there is a demo version

You can also buy or try it it on Steam where there are also 350 Reviews with comments of this software

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233680/Black_Ink/

And now also has a patreon website to learn more about this software

https://www.patreon.com/BlackInkSoftware

I have just seen that this software is still updated and alive, and is good that is still in development, and adding new things, as it was updated to version 2020.3 on 15 December 2020 with a new version as shown here or also on steam news with bigger images and bigger text and black background to see the video

The first link on the first post is no longer active but the main official website link is still working

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Recommended OS Windows 7 SP1 Processor Quad core processor Memory 4GB Graphics with Graphic card with pixel shader 3.0 support and with 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11

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Ramlyn wrote: I bought it about one year ago. It's a nice software.

Good and thanks for telling it. I have not bought it yet as it costs 60$ and I am unemployed, also did not download the free trial, so I think now that it has been updated will do it.