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Post by knittingkninja on Jul 31, 2011 2:35:37 GMT -5
What do you use. How do you like it. Would you get something else? I'm looking into buying one for fun. Anime type stuff mostly. I have been looking at the Wacom- Bamboo Pen and Touch- Black
Model. It's 99 dollars at best buy right now. The reviews were good but I was wondering if there was any one who actually used it for anime type stuff. Lemme know!
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Post by thefairydaydreamer on Jul 31, 2011 21:52:17 GMT -5
I have one, though it's a silvery color. It's pretty good but the touch option can get annoying sometimes. I think any Tablet would suffice. Some people have difficulties with using a tablet for their drawings but I think it's more of a prefference matter. I tend to find I do better with a tablet than the old fashioned pencil and paper, but I'm starting to do both now. I don't know about using it for anime (animated version of manga) but I do manga characters with it and it's pretty neat. way more control with the movement of your wrist...and a technique I saw in a digital manga tip book was to rotate the page when you go about inking and such because it'll look neater and you will have better control of your wrist movements. I hope this was helpful  |
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Post by PJCzar on Aug 1, 2011 0:25:34 GMT -5
as far as animation goes, consider the following:
most animations are player at 24+ frames a second. That 24+ pictures flashed before your eyes in a second. Most animation studios use hand drawn roughs scanned then redrawn, almost traced, on the computer. The remaining frames are filled in by an animator using a tablet like mentioned.
If by Anime you mean the style, then yes many many anime artists use tablets for their work. The computer integration is paired up well with the style in the way effects and editing can happen.
sounded a bit like jibberish.
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Post by Learner on Aug 1, 2011 6:45:03 GMT -5
you can draw on tablet?
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Post by dvandom on Aug 1, 2011 6:48:20 GMT -5
Well, there's drawing apps for tablet PCs, Hector, but they're talking about a specific interface device for a desktop machine. Kind of like a laptop's touchpad, but bigger and with a stylus. The better ones are pressure-sensitive so you can get lineweight changes just by pressing harder.
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Post by tucsondraw on Aug 1, 2011 11:20:04 GMT -5
Well, you can't go wrong with WACOM if you're willing to pay its price. My first tablet was a WACOM. I bought it in the mid 90's. It still works today provided you have Windows XP or lower, and a serial port. It doesn't work at all with Windows Vista or 7, and serial-USB adapters don't work with it.
It only has 512-levels of pressure sensitivity and a 4"x5" active area, but honestly it "feels" better than a newer off-brand tablet I use now. Also, the WACOM pen (stylus) has an "erasure" end so it acts more like a pencil with an erasure. You just flick the pen upside down and erase. My newer tablet, you have to click on the erasure button in the app to erase lines and such.
I paid something like $125 for my WACOM back in the day. My newer tablet has a 5"x6"" active area and 1024-levels of pressure sensitivity, and only cost me $35.
My newer tablet is a Hanvon 605. I liked it because of the price and the pen did not need a separate battery. I use Photoshop CS3 and AutoSketch Pro 2011 for my drawing apps.
As far as drawing on a tablet.. it takes practice. To me, it's VERY different than traditional pencil and paper. There's a disconnect for me when drawing on a tablet. My lines are always off. There's a certain feel of graphite dragging across paper. On a tablet, that feeling is gone. When I do use my tablet, I scan in my original pencil drawing, and then use the tablet for other things like color and such, but I suck at it. Drawing straight from a tablet, I really suck at it.
I have seen VERY VERY beautiful artwork straight from a tablet though. Just do a cursory search on youtube. I'm in total awe of some people's talent with a tablet. "IDRAWGIRLS" for example, on youtube does some beautiful tablet artwork.
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Post by vortexblast on Aug 1, 2011 16:27:28 GMT -5
I have a Wacom Intuos4 M Tablet and I admit that it was quite an expensive buy but I'm very happy with it.
It has a flawless integration with Photoshop CS5 straight out of the box but I need to tinker a bit for other programs. I also like it because the active area matches the aspect ratio of my monitor which is 16:10.
I agree that drawing with a tablet from scratch is very hard. Digital inking is easier but painfully slow but colouring is a dream to do with a tablet.
If I want to draw directly from digital with much ease and had money, my choice would be the Cintiq 12WX Pen Display for drawing and inking and the Intuos4 L Tablet for colouring but it's a very, very expensive investment.
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Post by Learner on Aug 1, 2011 20:17:38 GMT -5
I only know one specific tablet, the samsung galaxy tab.
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Post by knittingkninja on Aug 2, 2011 19:21:34 GMT -5
hmm. thank you guys. Well Best Buy has a 30 day money back return policy (for any reason) for the Tablets. I'm trying out the $200 Intuos 4 small for a month then I'm going to return it if by some miracle I don't lose the recite. So far I think drawing with a tablet is...painstakingly slow.  but the colors come out wonderfully bright and vivid compared to... light grey to darker grey with pencils. I also like the pressure sensitivity. makes the strokes look more, manga than with the pencil. It's difficult to look at the screen and draw though, but that is one of those things that takes practice. so would i buy one for real? maybe not. not now at least. Not when all I'm doing is learning and drawing random characters. |
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Post by Caliber Mengsk on Aug 10, 2011 11:33:45 GMT -5
Not the same kind of tablet Hector.
As stated by someone else, Wacom is pretty much the best. The main things you want to look for is... uh... what's it called.... crap... It's something like threshold or levels, or stages, or steps... O-o Pretty much it's the number of values that it can read for how hard you are pressing. Generally speaking you want at least 512, but if you can, 1024 is amazing. Also, find one that feels comfortable in size and how the pen feels in the hand. Pointless to buy one if you don't like how it feels.
All that said, I don't use them. I tried, and it just felt odd. I do pencil drawings, and if I feel like doing an inked image, I have a method of using the pen tool in photoshop with the mouse. I haven't ever tried inking physically. XD To worried of messing up my art.
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Post by uchihaguy on Aug 29, 2011 0:00:50 GMT -5
I got a Wacom Bamboo tablet and it's good. It does everything I really need it to. Don't get chasing those super expensive ones unless there's a setting you feel you must need. As long as I'm able to draw and color with it, I'm happy.
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but the colors come out wonderfully bright and vivid compared to... light grey to darker grey with pencils. I also like the pressure sensitivity. makes the strokes look more, manga than with the pencil. It's difficult to look at the screen and draw though, but that is one of those things that takes practice. so would i buy one for real? maybe not. not now at least. Not when all I'm doing is learning and drawing random characters.
