If you missed it yesterday, Microsoft showed of a completely new category of device. Built for for creatives, the Surface Studio is part computer, part touch, part pen input. The Surface Studio turns your desk back to what is tactile and familiar.
MS also showed off the Surface Dial. A haptic dial that you can use on your desk, or on the screen of the Surface Studio. I must admit, what they showed off was a bit jaw dropping. The dial could work and turn drawings and bring interface elements. You could even change the color of a brush while painting. Pretty exciting stuff.
Moho and Surface Studio Dial
Shortly after the MS announcement, Smith Micro Graphics had an announecment too. Moho takes advantage of the Surface Studio and the Surface Dial, in a few important ways.
Using the Surface Dial on screen gives you a new timeline overlay in Moho. When activated, the timeline appears, following its position, hiding other windows and allowing the artist to intuitively navigate in time, and animate using the entire screen.
The Surface Dial will also let you select frames within the timeline where new animation can be added. As movements are added via pen or cursor, the animator can use the Surface Dial to scroll back and forth through the new animation sequence to easily see if the movement is correct.
You can also use the dial to rotate the canvas use to 360 degrees.
Here is the kicker though… When creating frame by frame animation, the Surface Dial can flip between your drawings. Artists can draw on a sequence of still frames, and then rotate the dial left or right to simulate flip-book animation.
Check the press Release for more information.
