Leonardo said (OK, before you give me a cyber punch - sounds like a cool gadget, but I've got no clue. )
I am in a Digital Media Degree program, and I am simply trying to organize what I need/want into what I can and cannot get.
An AC Compressor would be nice, but extra RAM and peripherals for my classes would be better. Besides, I hate driving, and when I do I am in my truck for less than 5 minutes to get there and get back.
BTW that $49 tablet wa sat newegg from dynatron or something. Dynavox I think.
I've got a Wacom Graphire Draw Tablet that I've been using for about 6 years. I love it.
I use the pen exclusively though. The mouse that came with it sucks.
I used to work at an engineering firm. Before they took all the workstations to being mouse-only (blah) they used Wacom. It's good stuff.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited August 2003
Definitely Wacom, and if for technical work start with at least a 6x9 IntuosIIpad and use a real fine stylus for sketching and CAD software for finals. If for line drawings and artwork directly sketched in, get the 12x12 as suggested, but most tech and drafting folks are not pad drawing right in and are instead using CAD or Architectural software (my brother Mark not only works for an Enginering firm, the Engineer manager's trust him to use a drafting bench or an IntuosII or their engineering CAD software to design rebuilds for masonry buildings that are historic in Chicago and Elsewhere-- Rappeling was also a required skill in the last 3 years for his job which can take him Rappeling from story 50 down to story 30 on soem buildings with unstable walls, and the city trusts him so much they will close Wacker Drive for a block and route traffic around if he says a wall is unsafe.).
Narrow it down, mostly art can be drawn in on a big pad, and tech drawings need hyperfine accuracy. Smaller pad ok for ideation sketches or free form, technical needs boht free form ideas or CAD AND then CAD if you sketch in.
The IntuosII has, AFAIK, about 2500 LPI density and accuracy of +-.01". They sell a 9X12 IntuosII Platinum that would be good for por work and big projects, and if you have to have a pressure sensitve and accurate on a dynamic flat screen entry try a Cintiq (more for graphics artists and not tech drawing folks).
Digital Media has as many subspecialties as does teh more traditional graphics arts these days, and knowing both freehand art and color use and CAD will help you be balanced. Depends on how fast you go to very large scale work what you need. A 6x8 IntuosII Platinum will give about what a much larger Dyna-whatever will and will last and last adn knows tilts for thickness and edging custom things and knows greater pressure means more thickness alone and darker lines.
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All their models pretty much perform identically, the only difference is the size.
For it to be good? Yeah.
Basically, if you want a good tablet, you're looking at a few hundred dollars.
I am in a Digital Media Degree program, and I am simply trying to organize what I need/want into what I can and cannot get.
An AC Compressor would be nice, but extra RAM and peripherals for my classes would be better. Besides, I hate driving, and when I do I am in my truck for less than 5 minutes to get there and get back.
BTW that $49 tablet wa sat newegg from dynatron or something. Dynavox I think.
I use the pen exclusively though. The mouse that came with it sucks.
10 points for having your priorities straight!
Narrow it down, mostly art can be drawn in on a big pad, and tech drawings need hyperfine accuracy. Smaller pad ok for ideation sketches or free form, technical needs boht free form ideas or CAD AND then CAD if you sketch in.
The IntuosII has, AFAIK, about 2500 LPI density and accuracy of +-.01". They sell a 9X12 IntuosII Platinum that would be good for por work and big projects, and if you have to have a pressure sensitve and accurate on a dynamic flat screen entry try a Cintiq (more for graphics artists and not tech drawing folks).
Digital Media has as many subspecialties as does teh more traditional graphics arts these days, and knowing both freehand art and color use and CAD will help you be balanced. Depends on how fast you go to very large scale work what you need. A 6x8 IntuosII Platinum will give about what a much larger Dyna-whatever will and will last and last adn knows tilts for thickness and edging custom things and knows greater pressure means more thickness alone and darker lines.
http://www.wacom.com/