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  • Blender announces plans to bring a full-featured, native app to iPad Pro, other devices

    Blender announces plans to bring a full-featured, native app to iPad Pro, other devices

    If you’re a Blender fan, you’re going to like this.

    Over on its developer blog, the Blender team outlined early plans on Monday to bring the 3D creation suite to the iPad Pro as a native application. It didn’t stop there, the team also suggesting that the app could make an appearance on other devices, like the Microsoft Surface, Huawei MatePad, and Wacom MovinkPad.

    The first version will focus on sculpting and basic object manipulation, with hopes of bringing tools like the Grease Pencil and storyboarding later.

    The current mockups present a single-window workflow that highlights screen real esate and quick access to tools via floating UI elements and contextual overlays. Menus are collapsed by default, and the usual Tool Settings header has been replaced with floating panels tailored to pen input.

    The team also cited a long-term goal of bringing a fully native experience to touch-first platforms, complete with multi-touch gestures, AirDrop, and iCloud support on iOS, and new input handling features.

    Blender says a live tech demo will be shown at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, with follow-up discussions and design workshops planned for Blender HQ and the Blender Conference later in 2025. The company also encourages developers with experience in tablet and iOS design to reach out.

    The project is still in very early-stage plans, and Blender did not offer a timeline for public release as to the native app.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via AppleInsider and code.blender.org

  • Apple reveals second-gen Apple Pencil, complete with gesture support and wireless charging, at Brooklyn media event

    If you liked the first Apple Pencil, you’ll like this.

    The second-gen Apple Pencil was revealed today at Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” media event in Brooklyn, the new stylus for the iPad Pro featuring support for gestures developers can assign in their apps.

    The new Apple Pencil has a swipe and tap area that can perform secondary tasks, similar to the way the side buttons on Wacom’s own tablet styluses work. Tapping the side of the stylus, for example, can switch brushes in art applications.

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  • Disney animators test out iPad Pro, comment on “textured” surface

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    This is pretty interesting.

    Apple apparently allowed Pixar’s staff to play around with the upcoming iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. A week later, Apple let Disney’s Feature Animation studio take a crack at it.

    The animators commented that the device’s screen surface has “tooth,” or textured roughness, to augment drawing feel.

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  • Axiotron announces Modbook Pro products, points towards early fall launch

    It’s been a while since we covered this.

    Per MacRumors, Axiotron, creators of the famed Modbook tablet, has announced a new generation of Modbook Pro products.

    Built from a unique enclosure conversion kit, the Modbook Pro incorporates and completely encases the original hardware of a new Apple MacBook Pro 13.3-inch base system. Its Wacom digitizer delivers 512 levels of pen pressure sensitivity — more than any other tablet computer on the market. And its ForceGlass screen provides an etched, paper-emulating drawing surface.



    The Modbook Pro components connect to the original MacBook Pro through one of its two USB 3.0 ports, with the entire assembly being enclosed in a new casing for an integrated OS X-based tablet solution that also supports Windows 7.

    The Modbook Pro is scheduled to launch in “early fall 2012”, with pricing and retail partners yet to be announced.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.