If you've been sleeping on the Microsoft Paint program since the 90s, it's time to wake up. The godfather of drawing apps just leaked a 3D update—as Twitter user @h0x0d posted yesterday— and it looks pretty rad.
Way before we all affixed computers directly to our faces and started painting into the air a la Tilt Brush, we kept our psychosis contained in two dimensions. MS Paint arrived pre-installed on Windows 1.0 in 1985 and provided endless hours of dick-drawings and ugly portraits of siblings. After 31 years of remaining the relatively simplistic illustration software it always was, it's still used for much the same purpose today: See "MS Paint Me Like One Of Your French Girls."The leaked promo video for Paint's newest look includes capabilities for 3D manipulation, without extra software or hardware. The video demonstrates a touchscreen and pen, and uses stickers, brushes and pre-made models to create several scenes. A second video, "Paint with Paul," demos 2D drawings in a 3D field, combined with an object downloaded from the Paint community.Paul is kind enough to take the time here to tell us that "all art comes from circles," and "The more you practice circles, the better you become as an artist." Way to bring back memories from when the Fill Bucket found a tiny open pixel-crack in our drawing and turned the whole canvas black, dude. But we always forgave, because MS Paint was all we knew for so many years. Until Photoshop showed up in 1990 for a thousand bucks, anyway.This leak comes ahead of Microsoft's event set for October 26, which, as the Verge reports, is specifically targeted at creatives.Video: Introducing the New Paint Preview app WalkingCatOctober 7, 2016