[Mars]

It's been ten years since the "people hose" was first used in Futurama. There's no reason why the average art program should not have it now.

This is what I would like to do and what I should be able to do. I should be able to draw the outline of a person -- this would be the static part that would not change, though there would be options and adjustments to randomly vary the color of the skin each time it appeared. Then I should be able to create a bank of eyes, noses, hair, etc. that would vary randomly, but appear in the same spot (on the face) each time. Clothing would behave the same way. I should be able to save it as a brush, then glide my tablet pen across the surface of where a crowd is supposed to be and instantly create hundreds of people!

Come on, this sounds simple enough. There should be a program that would let me DO IT ALREADY. I hate drawing crowds. I've wanted to automate this for years.

The uses wouldn't end at people, though. I hate how most Photoshop brushes are the same static image repeated. A bank of random images is more what I want. Imagine a grunge or dirt brush that spits out one or two random scratches at a time from a bank of hundreds. You could easily dirty up a floor or old photo by painting it. Not pasting stuff over it, painting it. How nice that would be! Stars, dots, whatever...it'd be FUN! No erasing extra stuff afterword or any hassle at all!

And while I'm dreaming, how about a gyroscope in the Wacom pen similar to the one in Wii remotes that senses tilting? If you were painting fur and you needed the fur to go a different direction, you wouldn't use a completely different brush, you'd just tilt your pen a different way.