Google’s Tilt Brush

June 7, 2016

With the innovation in digital art, new opportunities for creative expression have vastly grown past the classic pencil and paper. Google’s Tilt Brush, available on HTC Vive, is a new virtual reality app that allows users to paint in a three-dimensional space. It’s as simple as just selecting color and brush preference and then you just begin waving your hand. Tilt Brush painters can walk around, in, and through their drawings. The idea of the Tilt Brush started in The Lab at Google Cultural Institute. This unique space, located in Paris, is used to bridge the technology and creative communities. For this project, Google partnered with Drew Skillman and Patrick Hackett of Skillman & Hackett in 2015. Skillman described the VR creative as, “Tilt Brush, at its core, is a virtual reality painting application. It creates something anyone can use, intuitively, for kids, artists, and absolutely anyone. Within the first 30 or 45 second, anyone can start VR painting and making marks in space all around them. It allows everyone to see how powerful VR is and how transformative it will be”. One of Tilt Brush’s most attractive qualities is how it uses non-gaming techniques to appeal to an audience of non-gamers. It welcomes newcomers to the VR world. Although it was newly launched, there are already incredible paintings and drawings from beginner doodlers, creative street artists, animators, and professional painters. This sure piqued the interest of the art directors here. We encourage our readers to take a look yourselves at #TiltBrush on Twitter. It’s a sight to be seen!

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