We often discussed it with Sergey, and one day he decided to make his own painting program with necessary functions, just for fun. The lack of some obvious features nearly shocked me. There were other good painting applications, like SAI and Corel Painter, but they have both pluses and minuses. It has always been a wonder to me that in contrast to 3D with thousands of plugins and features, there are no competitors to Photoshop in 2D, which has barely changed in the last 15 years. Anyway, I tried to learn all the available tools both for 2D and 3D. My brother and I have always been very curious, and I sometimes enjoyed exploring new software more than working with it. I had been drawing CG for quite a while for that moment. Initially, we didn’t peg Paintstorm as a commercial application, it was just for our personal use. Now the Paintstorm team consists of three people, they are Sergey (he deals only with programming), me (I do everything else), and our friend Leo (he helps with advertising and promotion). In this respect, Paintstorm may motivate other programmers as opposed to the common belief that only big corporations can create something meaningful today. Hello, I’m Alexander Komarov (Hangmoon) and I work at Paintstorm studio.īelieve it or not, Paintstorm was programmed by only one person – my brother Sergey Komarov.