Drawing and Animation for Live Performance – on Stage, on the Street and on the Net.
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Artist Controls (on the Tagtool)

Apart from the pen, the artist controls consist of five (or six) sliders and a push button.

The sliders control the following parameters:

Hue
Controls the hue of the colour you're drawing with. Starts with red at the bottom, moves through orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and back to red.
Saturation
Controls the saturation, or 'whiteness'. At the bottom setting you get white (no colour), the further you move the slider up, the more intense the colour gets.
Brightness
Controls the brightness, or 'blackness' - at the bottom setting you get black, the further you move the slider up, the brighter the brush gets.
Transparency
Transparent at the bottom, opaque at the top.
Thickness
The thickness of the brush/line - bottom is thin, top is thick. The thickness is also affected by the pressure of the pen.
Fade-Out (optional)
Determines how quickly a drawing fades out after it has been released by pressing the push button. On the bottom setting the drawings stay opaque, moving the slider up fades them out at an increasing rate.

ATTENTION: In older versions of the system the Tagtool controls had six sliders (see above). Recent Tagtools don't have the “Fade-Out”-slider since this overlaps with the functions of the animator.

Pushbutton:

Launch
The push button releases a drawing so the animator can move them using the gamepad.
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