In the technology-driven landscape of the rapidly evolving world of digital art and animation, Apple’s new product line-up – the M4 iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil Pro wield more power than ever before to bring creative people’s imaginations to life. Apple’s latest ad, which shows off the new powerful tools courtesy of the three animators, is an ad for the future of digital creativity. But it is also an awesome reflection of how the M4 iPad Pro and the Apple Pen Pro are more than just work tools: they are tools of creativity. Let’s explore how the M4 iPad Pro is more than an artistic tool: it is your canvas, as the imagination pros see it.
The new iPad Pro, powered by the new Apple M4 chip and delivering a massive uptick in both CPU and GPU performance, is continuing to push the envelope of what’s possible in digital animation and illustration. An updated multicore media engine makes for fluid transitions between creative workflows, and it is another gadget that should be in the hands of every pro looking to turbocharge their process.
And the M4 iPad Pro is accompanied by the Apple Pencil Pro, a creative tool made for precision and versatility. Built with the needs of artists and illustrators in mind, Apple Pencil Pro transforms ideas into creation with a level of accuracy that has a new standard on digital paper. Drawing, colouring and animating have become more efficient and engaging than ever before thanks to this multitasking stylus that is the artist’s new best friend.
The most recent campaign ad for Apple’s M4 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro, aptly titled ‘Worlds Made on iPad’, is a gorgeous minute-long tour-de-force showcasing the expressive potential of the tools. The one-minute spot is not just an ad for the iPad Pro, but a piece of chin-strokery dedicated to celebrating creativity. It focuses on the work of three different animators reimagining the same piece of green screen footage to make three ultimately very different videos that are then stitched together with an astonishingly cool-looking triptych of green-screen worlds at the end. The footage is cut to the words: ‘With iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, nobody works like you.’ It’s a beautiful advertisement for creative expression, and a touching reminder of the creative potential released by these tools for pros around the world.
Directed by Bennett Johnson, the ad features Sofia Wylie narrating three whimsical realisations of the same clip from animators Natalie Labarre, Jin and Jay, and Eric Lane – respectively, “Forest”, “Theatre”, and “Colussus”. Each piece showcases the power and expressiveness of the M4 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro in the hands of the artists.
To accentuate the feast for the senses, the song ‘Concentrate’ by Billy Lemos (feat. Dua Saleh) not only provides a rhythmic backdrop to the ad, but also adds to it an artistic touch provided by the music itself. In this way, the ad’s theme of innovativeness and artistry becomes echoed – coincidentally – in the ad’s soundscape, which makes the whole experience an aural and visual manifestation of creation.
The jump from the M2 to the M4 in the iPad Pro isn’t just evolutionary. It’s revolutionary. Everywhere I looked, the M4 iPad Pro was better than the previous generation. The professional-grade tablet we’ve long expected is finally here. The same is true of the Apple Pencil Pro: this iteration of the Pencil is different from past generations of Apple Pencils, and it’s different from other styluses competing in the same market space.
Creative professionals don’t just use the M4 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro to create – they are little extensions of their will. Apple’s dedication to pushing the technical envelope, and its deep understanding of the creative mind, ensure that these devices are essential to anyone serious about animation and digital art.
All this touches back to a philosophy of precision, performance and versatility at the core of these revolutionary devices. That ‘Pro’ in the name isn’t just hype. It’s a promise – to give any professional wielding them the creative tools to roam, create and innovate freely. For animators, illustrators and artists, the M4 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro is the ultimate tool for digital creativity. It opens worlds for us to create.
To conclude, Apple’s latest range is not just genuinely innovative technological upgrades but are also new worlds for tomorrow’s creators – the M4 iPad Pro and Apple Pencil Pro, as seen in the ad above, are the best digital art- and animation-making tools available, designed for – in the lexicon of Apple – a pro, because, in the creative world, the right tool is never just a tool. It changes the game.
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